Russian writer

Moscow's literary figure

A Russian writer is an author from Russia or writing in the Russian literary tradition.

The phrase often evokes the great 19th-century novelists—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol—whose works are considered foundational to world literature: Every Russian writer seems to grapple with suffering and the soul.

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Tolstoy · Crime and Punishment · Nabokov · Chekhov · Solzhenitsyn · Pushkin · Doctor Zhivago · poetry · samizdat · Turgenev · drama · essay · revolution · existentialism · symbolism · modernism · intelligentsia · realism

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