Russian writers

Authors from Moscow's homeland

Russian writers are authors from Russia, often invoked as a category because Russian literature is associated with particular qualities: psychological depth, moral seriousness, philosophical weight, and epic length.

I've been working through the Russian writers—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov.

The phrase sometimes appears as shorthand for demanding or heavy reading.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment · Leo Tolstoy · Anton Chekhov · Boris Pasternak · Vladimir Nabokov · Alexander Pushkin · samizdat · Futurism · War and Peace · Solzhenitsyn · Cold War era · Doctor Zhivago · Postmodernism · Postmodernism

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national literary tradition

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Literary figures from France

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cultural/philosophical orientation

Russian writersBloomsbury Group

Edwardian artistic-literary collective

literary style/temperament

Russian writersP.G. Wodehouse

Oscar Wilde · Jane Austen · Ernest Hemingway · Dorothy Parker

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