The Moscow Literary Sreda () was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolai Teleshov. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916. Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 1998.

List of Sreda members

* Leonid Andreyev * Pyotr Boborykin *

Ivan Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; rus, Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ ˈbunʲɪn, a=Ivan Alyeksyeyevich Bunin.ru.vorb.oga; – 8 November 1953)Fyodor Chaliapin *

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

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Evgeny Chirikov Evgeny Nikolayevich Chirikov (; 5 August 1864 – 18 January 1932), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and publicist. Biography Chirikov was born in Kazan into a gentry family. His father, a former office in the Im ...

Sergey Elpatyevsky Sergey Yakovlevich Elpatyevsky (), November 3, 1854 – January 9, 1933, was a Russian Empire and Soviet writer and medical doctor. Early life Elpatyevsky was born in the village of Novoselki-Kudrino, Vladimir Governorate, into the family o ...

* Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (Visitor) *

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

* Evgeny Goslavsky *

Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky Sergey Ivanovich Gusev-Orenburgsky () (October 5, 1867 – June 1, 1963) was a writer from the Russian Empire. He was a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. Biography Gusev-Orenburgsky was born into the family of a merchant. In 1893 he ...

Aleksandr Kuprin Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (; – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels ''The Duel'' (1905)Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, in his biography ''Alexander Kuprin'', calls ''The Duel'' his "greatest masterpiece" (ch ...

* Vladimir Korolenko (Visitor) *

Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan (; – ) was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a ''shtetl'' of Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, a part of the R ...

* Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak * Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov * Alexander Serafimovich *

Ivan Shmelyov Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (, also spelled ''Shmelev'' and ''Chmelov''; – 24 June 1950) was a Russian writer best known for his idyllic recreations of a pre-Russian Revolution, Revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow. ...

* Stepan Skitalets *

Fyodor Sologub Fyodor Sologub (, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, , also known as Theodor Sologub; – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic e ...

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Viktor Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (; 15 May (New Style, N.S.), 1848 – 23 July 1926) was a Russian artist who specialised in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic nationalistic pain ...

* Vikenty Veresaev * Semyon Yushkevich * Boris Zaytsev * Nikolai Zlatovratsky

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List of Sreda members

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