"The Bishop (short story) ""The Bishop"" () is a 1902 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the April 1902 issue of ""Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh"". The story, telling about the last days of a terminally ill priest, in many ways reflects the psychological state of the author, who was at the time full of premonitions of his own inevitable demise, and in that respect is considered to be partly autobiographical. Chekhov promised to Viktor Mirolyubov to write a story for ""Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh"" in a December 1899 letter. But he set to work upon it much later, judging by"
"Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: ""Medicine is my"
"novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Nikolai Leskov, all mastering both short stories and novels, and novelist Ivan Goncharov. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in writing short stories and became perhaps the leading dramatist internationally of his period. Other important 19th-century developments included the fabulist Ivan Krylov; non-fiction writers such as Vissarion Belinsky and Alexander Herzen; playwrights such as"
"Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (; ; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include ""Crime and Punishment"" (1866), ""The Idiot"" (1869), ""Demons"" (1872) and ""The Brothers Karamazov"" (1880). Dostoevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world"
"A Young Doctor's Notebook A Young Doctor's Notebook, also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook (Russian: «Записки юного врача» ""Zapiski yonogo vracha"", literally, ""A Young Doctor's Notes""), is a short story collection by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The stories were written in the 1920s and inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor in 1916-18, practicing in a small village hospital in Smolensk Governorate in revolutionary Russia. The stories initially appeared in Russian medical journals of the period and were later compiled by scholars into book form. The first English translation was done by Michael Glenny and"
"melancholy gently lightening a dim world where misguided, orphaned souls and charming images of children roam."" Korolenko is generally considered to be a major Russian writer of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Russian singer and literature student Pavel Lion (now Ph.D.) adopted his stage name Psoy Korolenko due to his admiration of Korolenko's work. A minor planet 3835 Korolenko, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 is named for him. Vladimir Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko () (27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian"
"referred to by characters in Chekhov's ""An Anonymous Story"". Isaiah Berlin acclaimed Turgenev's commitment to humanism, pluralism, and gradual reform over violent revolution as representing the best aspects of Russian liberalism. Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; ; September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled ""A Sportsman's Sketches"" (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism, and his novel ""Fathers and Sons"" (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was"
"Petko Todorov Petko Iurdanov Todorov (Elena, September 26, 1879 – February 14, 1916, Château-d'Œx) – a Bulgarian writer, journalist, dramatist, poet and critic. He is cited as the originator of the Romantic short story in Bulgaria although it is true only for his earlier texts because he soon progressed to deeper and newer psychological observations and experimental techniques as interior monologue. As part of the intellectual circle ‘Misal’ (""Thought"") he worked along some of the greatest Bulgarian writers of the late 19th and early 20th century as Pencho Slaveykov and Peyo Yavorov who were his close friends. Together they put"
"that if you want to know anything, you must first be free of prejudice and on your guard against hasty generalizations."" Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include ""Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"" (1865) (which was"
"the greatest writers in Russian history. This period, known also as the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, began with Alexander Pushkin, who is considered the founder of the modern Russian literary language and often described as the ""Russian Shakespeare"". It continued with the poetry of Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolay Nekrasov, dramas of Alexander Ostrovsky and Anton Chekhov, and the prose of Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have been described by literary critics as the greatest novelists of all time. By the 1880s, the age of the great novelists was over, and short fiction and poetry"
"short story ""A Russian Beauty"". A Russian Beauty and Other Stories A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. The short stories in this collection were originally written in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin. Before being collated into short story collections, some were published by various European Russian émigré newspapers and magazines. This collection was published in English in 1973 by McGraw-Hill in New York, it was translated by Nabokov himself and his son Dmitri Nabokov as well as Simon Karlinsky who collaborated with the"
"Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: , tr. ; ; ), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels ""War and Peace"" (1869) and ""Anna Karenina"" (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, ""Childhood"", ""Boyhood"", and ""Youth"" (1852–1856), and ""Sevastopol Sketches"" (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens"
"Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include ""Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"" (1865) (which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich), ""The Cathedral Clergy"" (1872), ""The Enchanted Wanderer"" (1873), and ""The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty"
"Schiller's ""Don Carlos"". Mikhail Dostoevsky Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky () (25 November 1820 – 22 July 1864) was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and the elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The two of them were less than a year apart in age and spent their childhood together. Mikhail Dostoyevsky was born on 25 November 1820 in Moscow, where his father was a surgeon at the Mariinsky Hospital. Mikhail received a home education. He began to write poetry at the age of nine. In 1834 he was sent to the boarding school of L. Chermak, where he stayed until"
"with total disregard for the new, modernist trends or the Ibsen school of psychological drama. Both his plays and numerous short stories (most of which dealt with the everyday life of Russian army officers, which he knew well) have been described as didactic, naïve and overly sentimental, but his readership never waned, and his best plays enjoyed stable popularity during his lifetime. Pyotr Nevezhin Pyotr Mikhaylovich Nevezhin (, 9 July 1841 — 25 May 1919) was a Russian dramatist and short story writer. Nevezhin was born in Smolensk to a local landlord. He graduated the First Moscow Cadet Corps, served"
"came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. The poets most often associated with the ""Silver Age"" are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin,"
"beautiful."" According to Gibian, Kazakov is distinctive among Russian authors. His work has an intrinsic, intangible quality which makes it unmistakably his. His characters are charged with emotion and tend to have a keen sense of an aspect of nature. Some enjoy the beauty of the visual world, some the scents of the forest, some the sounds of music but all intensely and with heightened senses experience the world around them. Yury Kazakov Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov () (August 8, 1927 – November 29, 1982) was a Russian author of short stories, often compared to Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin. Born"
"The greatest specialist of the Russian short story, however, was Anton Chekhov. Classic examples of his realistic prose are ""The Bet"" (1889), ""Ward No. 6"" (1892), and ""The Lady with the Dog"" (1899). Maxim Gorky's best known short story is ""Twenty-six Men and a Girl"" (1899). The prolific Indian author of short stories Munshi Premchand, pioneered the genre in the Hindustani language, writing a substantial body of short stories and novels in a style characterized by realism and an unsentimental and authentic introspection into the complexities of Indian society. Premchand's work, including his over 200 short stories (such as the"
"much of its relevance. Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; ; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. His matrilineal great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee,"
"Alexander Palm Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, 2 February [o.s. 21 January] 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - 22 [o.s. 10] November 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are ""Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family"" (1874, novel) and ""Our Friend Neklyuzhev"" (1879, drama). Alexander Ivanovich Palm"
"Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; ; September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled ""A Sportsman's Sketches"" (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism, and his novel ""Fathers and Sons"" (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol (modern-day Oryol Oblast, Russia) to noble Russian parents Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev (1793–1834), a colonel in the Russian cavalry who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, and"
"Mikhail Dostoevsky Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky () (25 November 1820 – 22 July 1864) was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and the elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The two of them were less than a year apart in age and spent their childhood together. Mikhail Dostoyevsky was born on 25 November 1820 in Moscow, where his father was a surgeon at the Mariinsky Hospital. Mikhail received a home education. He began to write poetry at the age of nine. In 1834 he was sent to the boarding school of L. Chermak, where he stayed until 1837. Then his"
"Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy () ( – ), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy ""The Death of Ivan the Terrible"" (1866), ""Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich"" (1868), and ""Tsar Boris"" (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (""History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev"", ""The Dream of Councillor Popov"") and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella"
"Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (|p|æ|s|t|ər|ˌ|n|æ|k) (29 January 189030 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, ""My Sister, Life"" (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. As a novelist, Pasternak is also known as the author of ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. ""Doctor Zhivago"" was rejected for"
"which has been transformed into classic romance) and his historical drama trilogy are regarded as an intrinsic part of the classic Russian literature of the 19th century. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy () ( – ), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy ""The Death of Ivan the Terrible"" (1866), ""Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich"" (1868), and ""Tsar Boris"" (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (""History of"
"on Bunin's behalf and maintained a regular correspondence with Ivan and Vera up until their respective deaths. Ivan Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; ; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as ""Bunin brocade"", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. Best known for his short novels ""The Village"" (1910) and ""Dry Valley"""
"commonly used in the former Soviet states, but is known as the ""Bandy Legs Sign"" in the west. Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel ""The Master and Margarita"", published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Mikhail Bulgakov was born on in Kiev, Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, into a Russian family. He was one of the seven children (the oldest of three brothers) of"
"a miracle that changes the lives of those who encounter it. The most notable of his novels include: Alexander Grin Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky (better known by his pen name, Aleksandr Grin, , August 23, 1880 – July 8, 1932) was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor (Grin's fans often refer to this land as Grinlandia). Most of his writings deal with sea, adventures, and love. Aleksandr Grin was born Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky () in a suburb of Vyatka in 1880, the"
"Aleksey Pisemsky Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky () () was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with ""Sovremennik"" magazine in the early 1860s. A realistic playwright, along with Aleksandr Ostrovsky he was responsible for the first dramatization of ordinary people in the history of Russian theatre. ""Pisemsky's great narrative gift and exceptionally strong grip on reality make him one of the best Russian novelists,"" according to D.S. Mirsky. Pisemsky's first novel ""Boyarschina"" (1847, published 1858) was originally"
"Surgery (short story) ""Surgery"" () is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in 1884 by ""Oskolki"". ""Surgery"" was written by Chekhov in August 1884. It was first published in the humorous literary and art weekly magazine ""Oskolki"" (No. 32, 11 August 1884), signed ""A. Chekhonte"" and subtitled ""A Scene"". In 1886, the short story was included in ""Motley Stories"" collection. Later, after some stylistic editing, it was also included into the Volume 2 of Chekhov's Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1889. For this edition, Chekhov replaced some colloquial words in the story with more literary ones."
"Yovkov is known for his fondness of traditions and myths, while Elin Pelin is more light-hearted and witty; the latter is also a famous writer of children literature. Both of them used vivid, elaborate language and images. A remarkable writer of historical novels, Fani Popova-Mutafova reaches the peak of her popularity before the Second World War but despite her talent, suffers repressions from the communist regime after it. Another figure which can hardly be forgotten from this period is the humorous writer and drawer Chudomir (1890-1967) whose short stories (often no longer than 3-4 pages) are brilliant both in style"
"A Russian Beauty and Other Stories A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. The short stories in this collection were originally written in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin. Before being collated into short story collections, some were published by various European Russian émigré newspapers and magazines. This collection was published in English in 1973 by McGraw-Hill in New York, it was translated by Nabokov himself and his son Dmitri Nabokov as well as Simon Karlinsky who collaborated with the author to translate the first"
"always sitting in the front row when he was lecturing. Bachmann (short story) ""Bachmann"" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov under his nom-de-plume V. Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was first published in Rul, a Russian émigré paper founded by his father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and later included in a number of short story collections: ""Vozvrashchenie Chorba"", ""Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories"" (1975), and ""The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov"" (1995). He and his son, Dmitri Nabokov, provided the English translation. The story has an outer narrator who receives the story by Sack, the inner narrator."