Russian author

Writer from Moscow

A Russian author is a writer from Russia or of Russian heritage.

The phrase often evokes the great 19th-century novelists—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol—whose works are known for psychological depth, philosophical weight, and considerable length.

I've been working through the Russian authors this year.

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Tolstoy · Crime and Punishment · intelligentsia · samizdat · Nabokov · nihilism · novels · Russian soul · Turgenev · Solzhenitsyn · poetry · realism · Pasternak · censorship · folklore · Silver Age · samovar · satire

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Literary creator from America

American poet · American writer · British author · English novelist · Japanese author

literary form

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U.S. verse composer

poet · playwright · screenwriter · lyricist · essayist

cultural role

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Music writer from Russia

pop musician · visual artist

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