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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkinis known as Russia's greatest poet. During a time when most great literature was being written in French and English, Pushkin revolutionized Russian literature with narrative poems, love poems, political poems, short stories, novels, plays, histories, and fairy tales. At the site you can read and examine some of his poems, enriching your glossary by comparing Russian and English variants.
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Russian author, one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy's major works include War and Peace (1863-69), and Anna Karenina (1875-77). Tolstoy once said, 'The one thing that is necessary, in life as in art, is to tell the truth.' At the site you can read his novel 'War and Peace' online in Russian, English and Italian languages.
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Great Russian writer, whose plays, stories, and novels are among the great masterpieces of 19th-century Russian realist literature. Recognized for his great ability for accurate and sympathetic character portrayal as well as his rollicking satire and extraordinary humor. His works contain a large number of brilliantly depicted Russian provincial types. Selected Gogol's novels and storis are published in Russian at the site.
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A great Russian poet and novelist. Lermontov is remembered for the novel A Hero of Our Time (1840) and his many poems. It consists of five tales about Pechorin, a disenchanted and bored nobleman. The novel is considered a classic of Russian psychological realism. Lermontov, who had sought a position in fashionable society, became enormously critical of it. His caustic wit made him numerous enemies, and, like Pushkin, he was killed in a duel. At the site you can read and listen to his poems in Russian and in English.
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