russian-language 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 …

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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 …

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