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Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment.
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Dostoevsky
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His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
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Tolstoy
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Her work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror.
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Akhmatova
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Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, he is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.
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Chekhov
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She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it.
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Tsvetaeva
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He was fatally wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès.
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Pushkin
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He was also an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems.
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Nabokov
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Later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque
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Gogol
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He was among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste
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Mayakovsky
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One of his recent novels, Day of the Oprichnik, describes a dystopian Russia in 2027, with a Tzar in the Kremlin, a Russian language with numerous Chinese expressions, and a "Great Russian Wall" separating the country from its neighbors.
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Sorokin
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, but was forced him to decline the prize.
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Pasternak
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Stalin liked his play Days of the Turbins very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.
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Bulgakov
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At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was engaged as a war correspondent by the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda;
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Grossman
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In her late 60s, she started a singing career, creating new lyrics for her favorite songs. Since 2008, she has been regularly performing as a cabaret singer in Moscow
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Petrushevskaya
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