Statistics for Russian authors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
His "Idiot" and "Crime and Punishment" are read all over the world	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	100%
An aristocrat, considered to be Russian greatest writer and thinker, he left his home and then died in a small appartement on the train station.	Leo Tolstoy	100%
He is considered to be Russian greatest poet, author of "Eugene Onegin"	Alexander Pushkin	94%
He was a troubled soul and famously burnt his book	Nikolai Gogol	88%
He was a poet, a writer and renowned translator. For "Doctor Zhivago" he received Nobel Prize, but was bullied and tried by Soviet government, which is rumored to have led to his early death.	Boris Pasternak	81%
His play was known as Stalin's favorite, but he portrayed him as a Satan in his masterpiece	Mikhail Bulgakov	75%
A doctor and acclaimed short-story/play writer famously said that: "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature - my mistress"	Anton Chekhov	56%
Poet who was a big fan of the above and died very young	Mikhail Lermontov	56%
This writer was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature	Ivan Bunin	38%
He didn't complete his school education and yet became one of the most prolific poets. He was forced out of USSR and received Nobel Prize in literature in 1987.	Joseph Brodsky	38%
Her children books are still read by many kids in Russia	Agniya Barto	19%
Author of "Primary Chronicle", which tells the history of early Russia	Nestor	19%
He couldn't be published in USSR, immigrated to New York and died young. He is now one of the most read Russian authors. His most famous works are "The Suitcase" and "Pushkin Hills"	Sergei Dovlatov	19%
His masterpiece "The Kolyma Tales" depict true horrors of Gulag system that he endured	Varlam Shalamov	19%
Author of "Moscow-Petushki", he has infamously predicted his own death in it	Venedikt Yerofeyev	13%
His poem "Babiy Yar" was a protest against Soviet government denial of atrocities against Jewish citizens, committed by Nazi's	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	13%

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