Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

male, deceased (1881)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (–) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo To...
Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

male, deceased (1837)
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian...
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

male, deceased (1852)
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (April 1, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. Although his early works were heavily...
Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

female, deceased (1966)
Anna Akhmatova (— March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of the St Petersburg tradition of Ru...
Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

male, deceased (1975)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and...
D. S. Mirsky

D. S. Mirsky

male, deceased (1939)
D.S. Mirsky is the English pen-name of Dmitry Petrovich Mirsky (1890-1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge...
Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

male, deceased (1870)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a major Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism". He is held responsible...

Mikhail Epstein

male, 59 years old
Mikhail N. Epstein (Epshtein) (born 1950) is an American literary theorist and critical thinker. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural...
Fyodor Sologub

Fyodor Sologub

male, deceased (1927)
Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic...
Sasha Sokolov

Sasha Sokolov

male, 66 years old
Sasha Sokolov (born Александр Всеволодович Соколов/"Alexander Vsevolodovitch Sokolov" on November 6, 1943, in Ottawa, Canada) is a paradoxical wri...