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Soviet Novelists
This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction. Alphabetical list A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V Y Z See also *List of Russian-language writers *List of Russian-language playwrights *List of Russian-language poets *List of Russian artists *List of Russian architects *List of Russian inventors *List of Russian explorers *Russian literature *Russian language *Russian culture References {{DEFAULTSORT:Russian-language novelists Lists of writers by language, Russian novelists Russian novelists, Russian writers, Lists of Russian people by occupation, Novelists Russian short story writers, Lists of novelists by nationality, Russian Russian literature-related lists, Novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Writers By Levitsky 1856
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David Aizman
David Yakovlevich Aizman (; 26 March 1869 – 26 September 1922) was a Russian-Jewish novelist and playwright. Biography David Aizman was born in Nikolayev, a coastal city in what is now Ukraine. His older brothers were revolutionary activists. By the time he was 15, he was already earning his living as a private tutor. He lived in Odessa and worked for the ''Odessa Papers'' when he was 20. In 1896, he relocated to Paris to study painting. Two years later, he and his wife, a Russian-Jewish physician, moved to the French countryside. While living in France, he made his debut in the magazine ''Russian Wealth''. Two of his most original works, ''In a Foreign Land'' (1902) and ''The Countrymen'' (1903), were written and set in France. He returned to Russia in 1902. During the 1900s and 1910s his stories and novellas appeared in leading periodicals, and his plays were staged in major theatres. His works were published by Maxim Gorky's Znanie company among others. His open portray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Pelagia
Sister Pelagia is a fictional 19th century Russian nun, the protagonist of a three-book series of mystery novels by Boris Akunin. The first novel, ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog'' (US title: ''Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog'') (Пелагия и белый бульдог) is set in Zavolzhsk and the surrounding countryside. It centers around the arrival from St. Petersburg of an Inquisitor from the Holy Synod and the great evils that follow. It was published in English in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with . In the second novel, ''Pelagia and the Black Monk'' (US title: ''Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk'') (Пелагия и черный монах), Pelagia investigates strange events in a remote island monastery in Mitrofanii's diocese (on the islands in the fictional Blue Lake). The plot contains many allusions to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk (short story), Black Monk, and several novels by Dostoevsky. It was published in English in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Fandorin
Erast Petrovich Fandorin () is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin. The first Fandorin novel (''The Winter Queen'', Russian: ''Азазель'') was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest and the last one in 2023 (''The Pit'', Russian: ''Яма''). More than 15 million copies of Fandorin novels have been sold as of May 2006, even though the novels were freely available from many Russian websites and the hard copies were relatively expensive by Russian standards.Leon Aron, "''A Private Hero for a Privatized Country''" in ''Russian Outlook'' , retrieved 17 August 2006. New books in the Fandorin series typically sell over 200,000 copies in the first week alone, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Akunin
Grigori Chkhartishvili (; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი), better known by his pen name Boris Akunin (, born 20 May 1956), is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin Detective fiction, detective novels. He is also an essayist and literary translation, translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia. Early life Chkhartishvili was born on 20 May 1956 in Zestaponi to a Georgians, Georgian father and a Jewish mother. He moved to Moscow in 1958. Career Chkhartishvili worked as assistant to the editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Foreign Literature'', but left in October 2000 to pursue a career as a fiction writer. Influenced by Japanese kabuki theatre, he joined the historical-philological bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generations Of Winter
''Generations of Winter'' (in Russian, ''Московская сага'' - ''Moskovskaya Saga'') is a novel by the Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov. Many critics have praised ''Generations of Winter'' as a new '' Doctor Zhivago''-style, large-scale Russian novel, which tells the story of a Russian/Georgian family, the Gradovs, struggling to survive in the Stalin era. As the ''Wall Street Journal'' put it: "Aksyonov has ambitiously set out to challenge Tolstoy on his own ground, creating a gigantic historical novel Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to oth ... on the grand pre-revolutionary model." In late 2004 a television-series based on the novel premiered on Russian television. It has 22 episodes. Footnotes References * * * * The series on DVD, in Russian 1994 Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Aksyonov
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov ( rus, Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов, p=vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ɐˈksʲɵnəf; 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. Early life 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 Kazan. Both parents "were prominent communists." In 1937, however, both were arrested and tried for her alleged connection to Trotskyists. They were both sent to the Gulag and then into exile, and "each served 18 years, but remarkably survive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorial Desk
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures, statues, fountains or parks. Larger memorials may be known as monuments. Types The most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are war memorials commemorating those who have died in wars. Memorials in the form of a cross are called intending crosses. Online memorials are often created on websites and social media to allow digital access as an alternative to physical memorials which may not be feasible or easily accessible. When somebody has died, the family may request that a memorial gift (usually money) be given to a designated charity, or that a tree be planted in memory of the person. Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called gras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
