"for a gigantic panorama depicting the Siege of Perekop. After 1936, he worked at the art institute in Kharkiv. Among the thousands of book illustrations he produced, perhaps the most notable are those for stories by Marko Vovchok, ""Mykola Dzherya"" by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, ""Taras Bulba"" by Nikolai Gogol and ""Imperial Hunting in Russia"" by Nikolai Kutepov. He and his wife worked together to illustrate ""Dead Souls"" and create murals for the Tsarskoye Selo railway station. Shortly after the end of World War II, a major exhibition of his early works was held at his workshop in Kharkiv. He was the"
"Harper Collins Paullina Simons Paullina Simons (born 1963 in Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) is a Russian-born American writer and the international best-selling author of the novels ""Tully"", ""Red Leaves"", ""Eleven Hours"", ""The Bronze Horseman"", ""Tatiana and Alexander"", ""Lily"" and ""The Summer Garden"". Simons dreamed of becoming a writer as a child in Leningrad. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to the United States, and completed an early attempt at writing when she was 12, in English. Simons attended colleges in New York, Kansas and England, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree"
"in issues of religion, especially Catholicism, which largely determined the evolution of her work. After leaving Russia, she wrote mainly novels and stories for children and youth: ""Catacombs"" (1866), ""Crystal Heart"" (1873), ""The Shalonski Family"" (1879), ""The Last Days of Pompeii"" (1882), ""The Sacred History of the Old Testament"" (1888) and other books are very popular and frequently reprinted in modern Russia. She spent her last years living in Warsaw, where she died in March 1892. Evgenia Tur Evgenia Tur () (24 August 1815 – 27 March 1892) was a Russian writer, critic, journalist and publisher. Her birth name was"
"Tatiana Okunevskaya and then the actress Nina Arkhipova. He died in 1954 and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery. Boris Gorbatov Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet Russian novelist. Born in the Donbass region in the Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two. Gorbatov is best known for his novels ""Donbass"" and ""Taras' Family"", both of which were translated into English, the latter also into French and German. The latter novel was filmed in 1945 (see The Unvanquished) and was the first"
"Paullina Simons Paullina Simons (born 1963 in Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) is a Russian-born American writer and the international best-selling author of the novels ""Tully"", ""Red Leaves"", ""Eleven Hours"", ""The Bronze Horseman"", ""Tatiana and Alexander"", ""Lily"" and ""The Summer Garden"". Simons dreamed of becoming a writer as a child in Leningrad. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to the United States, and completed an early attempt at writing when she was 12, in English. Simons attended colleges in New York, Kansas and England, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political"
"them into plays and operas for which Starytsky wrote the librettos (including ""Taras Bulba"", an adaptation of the novel by Gogol). He eventually switched from writing scripts for theatre to writing books. Starytsky is currently remembered for his work with Lysenko, as well as his later poetry and novels. He was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kiev. Mykhailo Starytsky Mykhailo Starytsky (14 December 1840 - 27 April 1904), in English Michael Starycky, was a Ukrainian writer, poet, and playwright. He was born in a family of retired cavalry officer (Rittmeister) Petro Starytsky and Anastasia Lysenko. He was a cousin of"
"against the universe. Fyodor Sologub Fyodor Sologub (, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, , also known as Theodor Sologub; – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European ""fin de siècle"" literature and philosophy into Russian prose. Sologub was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor, Kuzma Afanasyevich Teternikov, who had been a serf in Poltava guberniya, the illegitimate son of a local landowner. When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother. Tatiana Semyonovna Teternikova, was"
"Boris Gorbatov Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet Russian novelist. Born in the Donbass region in the Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two. Gorbatov is best known for his novels ""Donbass"" and ""Taras' Family"", both of which were translated into English, the latter also into French and German. The latter novel was filmed in 1945 (see The Unvanquished) and was the first film depicting The Holocaust. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize. He was married to the actress"
"Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (; , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. Nabokov's ""Lolita"" (1955), his most noted novel in English, was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; ""Pale Fire"" (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, ""Speak, Memory"" (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was a finalist for"
"Fyodor Sologub Fyodor Sologub (, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, , also known as Theodor Sologub; – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European ""fin de siècle"" literature and philosophy into Russian prose. Sologub was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor, Kuzma Afanasyevich Teternikov, who had been a serf in Poltava guberniya, the illegitimate son of a local landowner. When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother. Tatiana Semyonovna Teternikova, was forced to become"
"Valery Bryusov, Stéphane Mallarmé, Maurice Maeterlinck, and others. The event of cultural and artistic life became a translation of ""Pan Tadeusz"" of Adam Mickiewicz. As a representative of the ""pure art"" doctrine, during the years when the Stalinists adopted the official doctrine of ""socialist realism"". In 1937 he was involved in rewriting the libretto of Mykola Lysenko's opera ""Taras Bulba,"" returning later to neo-classical forms. Maksym Rylsky is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the 20th century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoclassicist"
"Konstantin Aksakov Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov () (10 April 1817, Novo-Aksakov, Orenburg Governorate – 19 December 1860, Zakynthos, US of the Ionian Islands) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order. His father Sergey Aksakov and his sister Vera Aksakova were writers, and his younger brother, Ivan Aksakov, was a journalist. Konstantin was the first to publish an analysis of Gogol's ""Dead Souls"", comparing the Russian author with Homer (1842). After Tsar Alexander II's accession to the throne, he sent him a"
"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"
"Viktor Burenin Viktor Petrovich Burenin (, March 6 [February 22, o.s.], 1841 in Moscow, Russian Empire – August 15, 1926 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Russian literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and satirical poet notorious for his confrontational articles and satirical poems, mostly targeting leftist writers. He was the author of several popular plays (some co-authored by Alexey Suvorin), novels and opera librettos (Chaykovsky's ""Mazepa""; Cui's ""Angelo""). Viktor Burenin was born in Moscow, the twelfth child in the family of architect Pyotr Petrovich Burenin. As a student of the Moscow College of Architecture (1852-1859), he became"
"Ilya Salov Ilya Alexandrovich Salov (Илья Александрович Салов, 6 April 1834, Penza, Russian Empire, — 24 December 1902, Saratov, Russian Empire, was a Russian writer, playwright and translator. Having started in mid-1850s (in ""Russky Vestnik"", ""Sovremennik"" and ""Otechestvennye Zapiski"") with a series of short stories and novelets mostly in the vein of the then hugely popular Ivan Turgenev's prose, Salov came to prominence in the late 1870s with a series of ""Otechestvennye Zapiski""-published novellas (""Merchant Chesalkin's Mill"", ""Asp""). In 1892 the Works by I.A.Salov in three volumes came out, followed by two short story collections, ""S natury"" (From Nature, С"
"by the Tsarist authorities. ""Practically all of the Russian government, bureaucracy, and society were united in one outburst against the Poles. The phobia that gripped society gave a new powerful push to the Russian national solidarity movement"" – wrote historian Liudmila Gatagova. It was in this particular context that many of Russia's literary works and popular media of the time became hostile toward the Poles in accordance with the state policy, especially after the emergence of the Panslavist ideology, accusing them of betraying the ""Slavic family"". According to sociologist and historian Prof. Vilho Harle, ""Taras Bulba"", published only four years"
"Yeremey Parnov Yeremey Iudovich Parnov (; 20 October 1935 – 18 March 2009 ) was a Soviet and Jewish Russian writer and publicist. Parnov attended the Moscow Peat University and worked as a chemical engineer. He also used to work as a professional journalist. Parnov is an author of several popular scientific works such as ""Фантастика в век НТР"" or ""Зеркало Урании"", apart from dozens of articles, sketches and essays. Strikingly foreshadowing concerns of later decades, the 1964 Soviet novel ""World Soul"" (translated into English) by Yemtsev and Parnov dramatizes a supercomputer which uploads all human identities and downloads them"
"Boris Dobronravov Boris Georgiyevich Dobronravov (, 16 April 1896, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 27 October 1949, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet actor, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre. The People's Artist of the USSR (1937), and a recipient of numerous high-profile state awards, including the Order of Lenin (1938) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1837), he is best remembered for his parts in ""An Ardent Heart"" and ""The Storm"" by Alexander Ostrovsky (Narkis, Tikhon respectively), ""The Days of the Turbins"" (Mikhail Bulgakov, Myshlayevsky), ""Dead Souls"" (Nikolai Gogol, Nozdryov), ""The Cherry Orchard"" (Anton Chekhov, Lopakhin)."
"Nicolai Levashov Nicolai or Nikolai Levashov (; February 8, 1961June 11, 2012) was a Russian occultist and psychic healer who wrote several books on life in the universe, Slavic history, the origin of mankind on Earth and other topics. From 1991-2005 he was known in the United States for several causes célèbres involving his patients. One of his books is classified as antisemitic and extreme and banned in Russia. He was a leader of a public organisation """"Renaissance. The Golden Age"""" which is considered a destructive cult by the Russian Orthodox Church. Nicolai Levashov was born in 1961 in Kislovodsk."
"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"
"Galina Dyuragina Galina Nikolaevna Dyuragina Галина Николаевна Дюрягина (15 June 1898 – 11 February 1991) was a Russian author and child psychologist. She is known for her diaries, published under the pen name ""Alexandra"" or ""Alya Rakhmanova"" (German transcription: Alja Rachmanowa), which describe her childhood, studies and marriage under the Russian revolution, and life as a refugee in Vienna. Galina was the oldest daughter of a physician in the town of Kasli near Yekaterinburg. Since her family was part of the aristocracy of Russia prior to the revolution, they suffered much in the years after 1917. Eventually Galina and her"
"Mikhail Albov Mikhail Nilovich Albov (; November 20, 1851 – June 25, 1911) was a Russian writer. Albov was born in St Petersburg in 1851. From an early age he showed a love for reading. He was especially interested in foreign works such as ""Robinson Crusoe"" and ""David Copperfield"". Nikolay Gogol's novel ""Dead Souls"" also made a deep impression on him. At the age of thirteen Albov's story ""The Memoirs of an Underground Lodger"" was published by the Peterburgsky Listok (St Petersburg News). After this success, he left school to focus on his literary efforts. His first novel ""On the"
"Nika Turbina Nika Georgievna Turbina (; 17 December 1974, Yalta – 11 May 2002, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian poet. She became famous for her profound and emotional poems which she wrote at an early age. She wrote her first poem at the very young age of four and started writing poetry at the age of six and at the age of 10, her first poetry collection ""First Draft"" was published. She was awarded the Golden Lion for her poetries in 1985. She wrote several poetry collections during her short career. She started writing poetry at the age of"
"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"
"him to the problems of Russian society. He was twenty-two years old when he wrote his first composition based on a Russian theme: a melodrama, ""Death"", set to Lermontov's poem. In his later works, he often used literary models with sharply contoured plots. In 1910 Zhukovsky's ""Tale of Tsar Berendei"" inspired him to write the ""Fairy Tale for Cello and Piano"". He composed the rhapsody ""Taras Bulba"" (1918) to Gogol's short story, and five years later, in 1923, completed his first string quartet, inspired by Tolstoy's ""Kreutzer Sonata"". Two of his later operas were based on Russian themes: ""Káťa Kabanová"","
"Alexei Sholokhov Alexei Sholokhov (born 1975) is a Russian horror writer known for his novels ""They"", ""The Cellar"" and ""The Body"". He also was and still is one of the ""ghost writers"" for Alexander Vargo series. As Sholokhov once stated in interview for Darker, he had no choice when was offered to publish his novels under Vargo's name. ""I wrote these novels in the year 2008 and was trying to place them somewhere during 2009. But I didn't get any result. For instance, people from Eksmo told me that they have no special book series for horrors. But then I"
"on 12 separate occasions) and abroad (it has been translated into Swedish, Russian and Armenian. Between 200 and 2004 he was the Chief Editor at ""Dnipro"" publishing He is fluent in Armenian and translates from Armenian and contemporary Greek into Ukrainian. His translation of “Taras Bulba” by Nikolai Gogol, based on the first edition of 1835, resulted in an unusual reaction from the Russian Embassy. Shkliar's use of the original text meant that the amendments made subsequently by Gogol, turning the book from a pro Ukrainian to a Tsarist text, due to a mixture of Russian critical pressure and financial"
"for example the Vyatka horse was not taller than . However, the wealthy preferred to use the elegant Orlov Trotter. The first troika competitions were held in the Moscow hippodrome in 1840. The troika was also exhibited at the 1911 Festival of Empire in London. The troika has become a cultural icon of Russia, especially after it was featured in a scene of Nikolay Gogol's novel ""Dead Souls"", where a character marvels at a troika speeding through the vast expanses of Russia (""""). The person carried by Gogol's troika – Chichikov, the protagonist of the novel – is a fraudster"
"Vasily Aksyonov Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of ""The Burn"" (""Ожог"", ""Ozhog"", from 1975) and of ""Generations of Winter"" (""Московская сага"", ""Moskovskaya Saga"", from 1992), a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953. Vasily Aksyonov was born to Pavel Aksyonov and Yevgenia Ginzburg in Kazan, USSR on August 20, 1932. His mother, Yevgenia Ginzburg, was a successful journalist and educator and his father, Pavel Aksyonov, had a high position in the administration of"
"collection ""Jasmine"". Matveyeva died on 4 September 2016 at the age of 81. Novella Matveyeva Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (; 7 October 1934 in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg– 4 September 2016, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. From the end of the 1950s on Matveyeva composed songs to her poetry and performed them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar. In 1998 Matveyeva received the Russian State Pushkin Prize in poetry, and in 2002, she"
"Darya Dontsova Agrippina Arkadyevna Dontsova (; born 7 June 1952 in Moscow), primarily known as Darya Dontsova () (before marriage known as Vasilyeva) is a Russian writer of detective novels,scriptwriter,TV presenter and member of the Union of Writers of Russia. Winner of a number of literary awards. Over the years, according to official data of the Russian Book Chamber, Dontsova takes the first place in Russia among adult fiction authors on the total annual circulation of books published by it [1]. In 2015, published 117 books and pamphlets total circulation of Dontsova 1968 thousand copies in Russia. [1] Dontsova was"
"Daniel Kluger Daniel (Daniil) Kluger, (born October 8, 1951) is an Israeli writer in science fiction and detective genres. He writes in Russian language. Born in the former Soviet Union (Ukraine). Graduated from Simferopol State University as physicist. Began to publish his works in the 1970s. Author of books The Cruel Sun («Жестокое солнце», изд.""Таврия"", 1989), The Silent Guest («Молчаливый гость», «Текст», 1991), The Trap for the Sleuth («Западня для сыщика», «Искатель», 1998), Those Who Crossed the River («Перешедшие реку», ХАМА, 2000), several detective novels - Death in Caesarea («»), Unpredicted Murder («Непредсказанное убийство») etc., as well as an essay"
"Nikolai Teleshov Nikolai Dmitryevich Teleshov () (November 10, 1867 - March 14, 1957) was a Russian/Soviet writer. Teleshov was born in Moscow where his father was a merchant. His poems were first published in 1884. In the 1880s and 1890s he wrote short stories and novellas, including the story he's best known for, ""The Duel"". He also wrote sketches and stories portraying the disastrous fate of resettled peasants in Siberia. In 1899 Teleshov organized a literary circle in Moscow known as the Sreda (Wednesday) literary gathering. Among its members were many of Russia's most popular writers, such as Maxim Gorky"