Russian literature
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Russian literature is the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different ethnic
Chekhov and Tolstoy, 1901
The bard Boyan accompanying on the gusli by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1910
First page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book
Personal correspondence, the birch bark letter from Matchmaker's Milusha to Marena, 12th century, Veliky Novgorod
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, a
Russian literature
…fore. Mikhail Lermontov was one of the most important poets and novelists. Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev wrote masterful short stories and novels. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy became internationally renowned. Other important figures were Ivan Goncharov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Nikolai Leskov. In the…
Fyodor Dostoevsky, by Vasily Perov, c. 1872
Maria Fyodorovna Dostoevskaya
Mikhail Andreyevich Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky, 1847