Writers

Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Birthplace: Voronezh
Awards: Nobel Prize 1933

Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov (1883-1958)
Birthplace: Chernavka
Awards: Stalin Prize 1950
  • 1925 - Cement
  • 1938 - Energy
  • 1949 - Story of Childhood

Maxim Gorky (1870-1953)
Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov
Birthplace: Nizhi Novgorod

Sof'ia Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia (1828-1865)
Iv. Vesen'ev
Birthplace: Riazan
  • 1858 - Aunty's Legacy
  • 1861 - A Provincial Lament
  • 1862 - Earthly Joys and Joys of Our Back Street
  • 1862 - A Little About Our Customs
  • 1863 - City and Country Folk
  • 1864 - Our Urban Life

Anatoli Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1930-1979)
A. Anatoli
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1957 - The Continuation of a Legend
  • 1966 - Babi Yar
  • 1969 - The Fire

Nadezha Mandelstam (1899-1980)
Birthplace: ??
  • 1970 - Hope Against Hope

Vladimir Nabakov (1899-1977)
Birthplace: St. Petersburg
  • 1938 - Laughter in the Dark
  • 1945 - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
  • 1947 - Speak, Memory
  • 1947 - Bend Sinister
  • 1955 - Lolita
  • 1957 - Pnin
  • 1962 - Pale Fire
  • 1969 - Ada

Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Poet, Writer

N. Shchedrin (1826-1889)

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
Birthplace: Spas-Ugol

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-????)
Birthplace: Kislovodsk
Awards: Nobel Prize 1970; Templeton Prize for Progress 1983; Russian State Literature Prize 1990

Ivan Sergeievich Turgenev (1818-1883)
Birthplace: Orel
  • 1849 - A Month in the Country
  • 1852 - A Sportsman's Sketches
  • 1856 - Rudin
  • 1859 - A Nest of Gentlefolk
  • 1860 - On the Eve
  • 1862 - Fathers and Sons
  • 1867 - Smoke
  • 1876 - Virgin Soil