Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time
19th-century russian short story writers
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (English: ; Russian: , tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, IPA: [lksandr sre(j)vt pukn] (listen); 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern …
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Russian: , tr. Nikolay Vasil’yevich Gogol’, IPA: [nklaj vsiljvd ol]; Ukrainian: , romanized: Mykola Vasyl’ovych Hohol’; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin.Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque, …
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also US: ; Russian: , tr. Ivn Aleksndrovich Goncharv, IPA: [van lksandrvd ntrof]; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He …
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: , US: ; Russian: , tr. Fydor Mikhylovich Dostoyvskiy, IPA: [fdr mxajlvd dstjefskj] (listen); 11 November 1821 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century …
Anton Chekhov
Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in the world