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While working back and forth on these many webpages, items kept appearing for authors of other countries, with nowhere to cross-reference them.
Thus a page for British authors was created in Spring 2012, and a page for French authors was created in early 2013. This page for Russian authors
was created in February 2019 and serves two intentions: to pay homage to the many Russian & Soviet writers & poets & playwrights who have
influenced American literature and-or American life during the past 200-plus years, and also to the many Russian authors who provided source
material for so many major Hollywood feature films.

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Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and more recently the war in Ukraine, we need to be more specific as to the countries that now exist
that were formerly Soviet sub-states. The plan is to display their flags & Wikipedia links here and eventually code entries below with tiny flags
to recognize country of origin or birth.

Soviet Union [1917-1991] entry at Wikipedia country website	Republic of Armenia entry at Wikipedia country website	Republic of Azerbaijan entry at Wikipedia country website	Republic of Belarus entry at Wikipedia country website	Republic of Georgia entry at Wikipedia country website
Republic of Kazakhstan entry at Wikipedia country website	Kyrgyzstan / Kyrgyz Republic entry at Wikipedia country website	Republic of Moldova entry at Wikipedia country website	Russian Federation entry at Wikipedia country website	Ukraine entry at Wikipedia country website
	Republic of Tajikistan entry at Wikipedia country website	Turkmenistan entry at Wikipedia country website	Republic of Uzbekistan entry at Wikipedia country website

Anthologies  &  Literary  History

	"A History of Russian Literature" [1900] by Kazimierz Waliszewski Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [8/2014] for 99¢ Forgotten Books 9x6 pb [1/2018] for $16.57 Sagwan Press 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2015] for $29.95 D. Appleton & Company hardcover [1915] long out of print/scarce 1900 edition available as free online etext at Internet Archive
	"Landmarks in Russian Literature" [1910] by Maurice Baring [1874-1945] Cornell Univ Library mass pb [1/2010] for $23.99 Methuen & Co. hardcover [1962] out of print/used
	"An Outline of Russian Literature" [1915] by Maurice Baring [1874-1945] 148-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE! 72-page CreateSpace 9x6 pb [6/2017] for $6.99 120-page CreateSpace 9x6 pb [12/2016] for $7.99 256-page Home Farm Books 8½x5½ hardcover [12/2009] for $23.99 Classic Books hardcover [1915] long out of print/used author entry at Wikipedia • available as free 256-page online etext at Internet Archive
	"A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings To 1900" [1926-27] by Prince Dimitry S. Mirsky [1890-1939], Edited by Francis J. Whitfield Northwestern Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [9/99] for $34.95 Vintage Books pb [1958] overpriced Knopf hardcover [1958] out of print/used
	"The Golden Age of Russian Literature" [1945] by Ivar Spector Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [9/2010] for $23.16 Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $14.42 Caxton Printers hardcover [1945] out of print/used
	"History of Early Russian Literature" [1949] by N.K. Gudzy, Edited by Susan Wilbur Jones anthology with Russian and English contents (not a bilingual edition) The Macmillan Company hardcover [1949] out of print/used
	"An Outline of Russian Literature" [1958] by Marc Slonim "A distinguished scholar and critic traces the evolution of Russian literature from the folk epics of the middle ages to the Soviet writings of the present day" • drawings on the cover are of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy & Checkov New American Library mass pb [1958] out of print/used Mentor 7x5 pb [1959] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press hardcover [1958] out of print/used

"History of Old Russian Literature" bilingual textbook [1968] by A. Pronin
Posev bilingual pb [1968] out of print/used

"From Karamzin To Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories" [1/1969] by Carl R. Proffer
http://www.amazon.com/Karamzin-Bunin-Anthology-Russian-Stories/dp/0253325064/

	"Soviet Russian Literature Since Stalin" [1979] by Deming Brown Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/79] for $38.93
	"A History of Old Russian Literature" [1980] by V.V. (Vladimir) Kuskov [1920-99] Progress Publrs 9x6½ hardcover [1980] out of print/used Progress Publrs 9x6½ hardcover [1980] out of print/used
	"Lectures on Russian Literature: Timeless Discussions of Chekhov, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gorki, and Gogol" [1981] by Vladimir Nabokov, Edited & with An Introduction by Fredson Bowers Kindle Edition from Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [12/2017] for $9.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [12/2002] for $12.99 Harcourt 10x7½ hardcover [1981] out of print/used
	"The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader" [1985] by Clarence Brown Kindle Edition from Penguin Group [2003 edition] for $13.00 Penguin Classics 5x7½ pb [rev 7/2003] for $18.00 Viking Portable Library 7½x4½ hardcover [6/85] out of print/used includes stories by Babel, Bunin, Chekhov, Gorky, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and Zamyatin; excerpts from Andrei Bely's "Petersburg", Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago", and Sasha Solokov's "A School For Fools"; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece "Envy"; and poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, and Osip Mandelstam
	"The Cambridge History of Russian Literature" [1989] by Charles A. Moser PUB pb [5/92] for $78.18 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [11/89] out of print/used
	"The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader [1993] Edited by George Gibian Penguin Books 8x5¼ pb [8/93] for $13.99 selections include authors Aksakov, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Goncharov, Gorky, Griboyedov, Herzen, Lermontov, Karolina Pavlova, Prutkov, Pushkin (eleven poems), Saltykov-Shchedrin, Solovyov, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Tyutchev – and some Russian folk proverbs
	"The Last Years of Soviet Russian Literature: Prose Fiction, 1975-1991" [1994] by Deming Brown Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [11/94] for $30.23
	"The Golden Age: Readings In Russian Literature of The Nineteenth Century" [1995] by Sandra F. Rosengrant & Elena D. Lifschitz John Wiley & Sons 9¼x7½ pb [11/95] for $81.94 {sic}
	"An Anthology of Russian Literature From Earliest Writings To Modern Fiction: Introduction To A Culture" [1996] by Nicholas Rzhevsky Amazon database and booksellers again provide terrible information: book cover specifies 'companion CD' but there is no clarity on what will be shipped to buyers Routledge mass pb [3/96] out of print - overpriced Routledge 9x6 pb [3/96] for $43.32 M.E. Sharpe pb [2004] out of print/used Routledge 9½x6½ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used
	"The Cambridge Companion To The Classic Russian Novel" [1998] Edited by Malcolm V. Jones & Robin Feuer Miller 14 newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [1998 edition] for $28.63 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [5/98] for $30.14 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [5/98] for $43.00

"An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics" [12/1998] by James Bailey
http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Russian-Folklores-Cultures-Eastern/dp/0873326415/

"The Columbia Guide To The Literature of Eastern Europe Since 1945" [4/2003] by Harold B. Segel
http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Guide-Literature-Eastern-Europe/dp/0231114044/

	"The Cambridge Introduction To Russian Poetry" [2004] by Michael Wachtel Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [2004 edition] for $18.22 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2004] for $28.96 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2004] for $86.12 {sic}
	"The Cambridge Introduction To Russian Literature" [2008] by Caryl Emerson Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [7/2008] for $28.63 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [7/2008] for $30.14 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2008] for $64.69 {sic}
	"The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime and Suspense" [19 stories 2010] Edited by Otto Penzler 19 stories in English from Russian authors Boris Akunin, Ivan Bunin, Anton Checkov (4), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol (2), Maxim Gorky, Vil Lipatov, Nikolai Lyeskov, Vladimir Nabakov, P. Nikitin, Alexander Pushkin, Lev Sheinen, Boris Sokoloff, and Leo Tolstoy (2) Kindle Edition from Pegasus Books [6/2012] for $1.34 {sic} Pegasus Books 8¼x5½ pb [7/2012] for $1.34 {sic} Pegasus Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2010] for $19.00
	"The Cambridge Companion To Twentieth-Century Russian Literature" [2011] Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko & Marina Balina Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [10/2012] for $21.49 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/2011] for $33.22 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2011] for $67.63 {sic}
	"Russian Literature Since 1991" [2015] Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko & Mark Lipovetsky Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [11/2015] for $24.00 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [7/2017] for $29.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2015] for $82.56 {sic}
	"The Irony of The Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature" [2017] by Mikhail Epstein Academic Studies Press 9¼x6 pb [9/2018] for $45.00 Academic Studies Press 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2017] for $119.00
	"The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons From Russian Literature" [2017] by Viv Groskop Kindle Edition from Abrams Press [10/2018] for $3.99 Abrams Press 8¼x5½ pb [10/2019] for $16.00 Harry N. Abrams 8½x6 hardcover [10/2018] for $13.86
	"Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader" [2018] Edited & Introduced by Anindita Banerjee Academic Studies Press 9¼x6 pb [2/2018] for $34.36 Academic Studies Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2018] for $103.98 {sic}

  Russian  Literary  Classics   
Things that show up on the internet: Ten literary masterpieces on which every Russian was raised:

"The Minor" stageplay [1782] by Denis Fonvizin [1744-92]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Fonvizin

"Woe From Wit" stage comedy in verse [1825/1861] by Alexander Griboyedov [1795-1829]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woe_from_Wit

"Eugene Onegin" novel in verse [1833] by Alexander Pushkin [1799-1837]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Onegin

"A Hero of Our Time" [1840 novel] by Mikhail Lermontov [1814-41]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov#A_Hero_of_Our_Time

"Dead Souls" [1842 novel] by Nikolai Gogol [1809-52]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls

"Crime and Punishment" [1866 novel] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1821-81]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment

"War and Peace" [1869 novel] by Count Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace

short stories, 1880-1903 by Anton Chekhov [1860-1904]

"And Quiet Flows The Don" [1934] by Mikhail Sholokhov [1905-84]
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don

"One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich" [1962] by Alexander Solzhenitsyn [1918-2008]
another Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1970)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich

  Russian  Classic  Poets   
Another found list, October 2020: Ten main Russian poets you need to know:
http://www.rbth.com/arts/332804-main-russian-poets { these links may require a different browser }

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
http://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2016/06/06/pushkin-birthday_600561

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)
http://www.rbth.com/literature/2014/10/15/mikhail_lermontov_the_man_behind_the_genius_40639.html

Nikolai Nekrasov (1821-1877)

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873)
http://www.rbth.com/arts/332775-tyutchev-russian-poet

Alexander Blok (1880-1921)

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
http://www.rbth.com/arts/330550-poet-anna-akhmatova

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
http://www.rbth.com/literature/2013/09/26/for_the_great_poet_marina_tsvetaeva_every_verse_was_a_child_of_love_30173.html

Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925)
http://www.rbth.com/literature/2015/10/02/russia_is_mine_the_turbulent_life_of_sergei_yesenin_49761.html

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
http://www.rbth.com/multimedia/2015/07/17/mayakovsky_258827

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
http://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2017/04/14/memoirs-brodsky-didnt-want-you-to-read_740937

L i n k s
Russian Literature entry at Wikipedia
search for Russian literature books & ebooks {returns over 10,000 titles} at Amazon

Cinema of Russia Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Pushkin Prize [est. 1881]
Russian literature fansite [est. 2000] in Cyrillic
The Russian Review [est. 1941] is based at the University of Kansas

Russian Peace Foundation [est. 2007]

Authors  &  Artists  of  Russia,  A to Z

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poet Anna Akhmatova [1889-1966]
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko used the pen name Anna Akhmatova and was one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th Century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Akhmatova
"Requiem" [1935–40] was her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror
"A Life of Anna Akhmatova"

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mystery author Boris Akunin of Republic of Georgia

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2015 Nobel-laureate Svetlana Alexievich [b. 1948] of Minsk, Belarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich

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author Leonid Andreyev [1871-1919]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Andreyev
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0028916/

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illustrator Ivan Jakovlevic Bilibin [1876–1942]
http://www.amazon.com/Ivan-Bilibin/e/B007UD5ZFK/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bilibin

	"Ivan Bilibin" art book [1981] by Sergei Golynets Pan Books UK 11¼x8½ pb [1/81] out of print/used Aurora Art Publrs 11½x8¾ hardcover [1982] out of print/used
	"Ivan Bilibin: Drawings - Colour Plates" [2016] by Maria Peitcheva Kindle Edition from CreateSpace [2/2016] for $2.99 CreateSpace 11x8½ pb [2/2016] for $9.99

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author & playwright Mikhail A. Bulgakov [1891–1940]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0119888/

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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin [1870-1953]
Best known for his short novels "The Village" [1910] and "Dry Valley" [1912], his autobiographical novel "The Life of Arseniev" [1927-39], the book of short stories
"Dark Avenues" [1946] and his 1917–1918 diary "Cursed Days" [1926]; won the Pushkin Prize in 1903 & 1909; won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bunin
http://www.bunin-lit.RU/ in Cyrillic

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writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [1860-1904]

  short stories, 1880-1903 by Anton Chekhov

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writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky [1821-81]

         "Crime and Punishment" [1866] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment

    "The Brothers Karamazov" [1880] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The Brothers Karamazov" [Soviet Union 1969]
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Russian-born Eisenstein also worked in France & Mexico; he was the author of most of his films, and also wrote books on cinema theory

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playwright Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin [1744-92]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Fonvizin

  "The Minor" [1782] by Denis Fonvizin

stageplay "The Brigadier-General" [] by Denis Fonvizin

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author Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [1809-1852]

   "Dead Souls" [1842 novel] by Nikolai Gogol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls

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diplomat & hero Alexander Griboyedov [1795-1829]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Griboyedov

  "Woe From Wit" stage comedy in verse [1825/1861] by Alexander Griboyedov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woe_from_Wit

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Yiddish poet H. Leivick [1888-1962] of Russia (1888-1913) and U.S.A (1913-1962)
pen name of Leivick Halpern, also spelled H. Leyvik
browse books at Amazon • entry at Wikipedia •
bio article [2000] by Jaff Malka

The Leyvik House [est. 1970] in Tel Aviv, Israel {in Hebrew & English}  

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Mikhail Lermontov [1814-41]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov

  "A Hero of Our Time" [1840 novel] by Mikhail Lermontov [1814-41]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov#A_Hero_of_Our_Time

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American author Robert K. Massie [1929-2019]
Massie wrote "Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of The Last of The Romanovs and The Fall of Imperial Russia" in 1967; he was inspired to write it after his own son was diagnosed with hemophilia, the same condition that afflicted Tsarevich Alexei; the 1,000-page book has since sold more than 4½ million copies and in 1971 was adapted into a film starring Laurence Olivier. Massie won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for "Peter The Great: His Life and World", which became a TV miniseries in 1986. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of its archives, Massie updated "Nicholas and Alexandra" with "The Romanovs: The Final Chapter" [1995].
browse books • IMDb listing • author entry at Wikipedia

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov [1899-1977]
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1899; family fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1918 to England and then to Berlin, Germany, then to Prague; Vladimir remained in Berlin until 1937, when he moved to France; the family joined him there, then fled the Germans to America in 1940. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. In 1961, he moved to the Montreux Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland; he died from severe bronchial congestion in July 1977 in Montreux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov_bibliography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0618603/
Société Française Vladimir Nabokov: Les Chercheurs Enchantés

"Mashen'ka" [1926] - English translation: "Mary" [1970]
"Korol', Dama, Valet" [1928) - English translation: "King, Queen, Knave" [1968]
"Zashchita Luzhina" [1930] - English translation: "The Luzhin Defense" or "The Defense" [1964] - also adapted to film: "The Luzhin Defence" [2000]
"Sogliadatay" novella [1930] - first publication as a book, 1938; English translation: "The Eye" [1965]
"Podvig (Deed)" [1932] - English translation: "Glory" [1971]
"Kamera Obskura" [1933] - English translations: "Camera Obscura" [1936], "Laughter In The Dark" [1938]
"Otchayanie" [1934] - English translations: "Despair" [1937 & 1965]
"Priglashenie na Kazn' (Invitation To An Execution)" [1936] - English translation: "Invitation To A Beheading" [1959]
"Dar (The Gift)" [1938] - English translation in 1963
long-unpublished novella "Volshebnik" written in 1939, English translation: "The Enchanter" [1985]

Novels written in English
"The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" [1941]
"Bend Sinister" [1947]
"Lolita" [1955] - self-translated into Russian in 1965
"Pnin" [1957]
"Pale Fire" [1962]
"Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" [1969]
"Transparent Things" [1972]
"Look At The Harlequins!" [1974]

	"Lectures on Literature: Timeless Discussions of Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson" [1980] by Vladimir Nabokov, Edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by John Updike Kindle Edition from Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [12/2017] for $9.99 Mariner/Harvest 8¼x5½ pb [12/2002] for $16.10 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 10x7¾ hardcover [10/80] out of print/40+ used
	"Lectures On Russian Literature: Timeless Discussions of Chekhov, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gorki, and Gogol" [1981] by Vladimir Nabokov, Edited & with An Introduction by Fredson Bowers Kindle Edition from Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [12/2017] for $9.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [12/2002] for $12.99 Harcourt 10x7½ hardcover [1981] out of print/used

"The Original of Laura" fragmentary novel, written during the mid-1970s and published posthumously as "Dying Is Fun" [2009]

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1958 Nobel-laureate Boris Pasternak [1890-1960]
Pasternak article on Russian Peace Foundation [est. 2007] website

"Dr. Zhivago" [M.G.M. 1965]
Blu-ray = B001TOCCRU

"The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, The CIA, and The Battle Over A Forbidden Book" []
by Petra Couvee & Peter Finn - Pantheon 9780307908001

"Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago" [2017] by Anna Pasternak Kindle Edition from Ecco Press/HarperCollins [1/2017] for $14.99 Ecco Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2017] for $14.63

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin [1799-1837]
IMDb listing {140+ titles since 1907} • entry at Wikipedia
18 works by A. Pushkin online at Project Gutenberg • 213 works by/about A. Pushkin online at Internet Archive
Pushkin State Museum [opened 1912, renamed 1937] in Moscow, Russia

   "Eugene Onegin" novel in verse [1833] by Alexander Pushkin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Onegin

	"Alexander Pushkin: Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works" [2009] New Translations by James E. Falen Kindle Edition from ... [9/00] for $7.55 Oxford Univ Press World's Classics 7½x5 pb [11/2009] for $13.95
	"Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin" [2016] New Translations by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky Kindle Edition from Knopf/Random House [11/2016] for $15.99 Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [11/2016] for $24.76

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Mikhail Sholokhov [1905-84]

  "And Quiet Flows The Don" [1934] by Mikhail Sholokhov
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don

"Quiet Flows The Don" []
starring Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kiriyenko
http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Flows-Don-Pyotr-Glebov/dp/B000LV6OHQ/(DVD - 2007)

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1970 Nobel-laureate novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [1918-2008]

  "One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich" [1962] by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1970)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich

"One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich"
[Norsk Film/Horizon Intl. May 1971]
based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1962 novella • full credits from IMDb

"The Dialogues With Solzhenitsyn" [1998] Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov

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author Count Lyev Nikolayevich 'Leo' Tolstoy [1828-1910]
browse books • author entry at Wikipedia • Wikipedia's Leo Tolstoy bibliography

The 'Autobiographical Trilogy': "Childhood" [1852], "Boyhood" [1854], and "Youth" [1856]
"Family Happiness" novella [1859]
"The Cossacks" novel [1863]

  "War and Peace (Voyna i Mir)" novel [1869] by Count Leo Tolstoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace
"Give War and Peace A Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom For Troubled Times" [] by Andrew D. Kaufman
Simon & Schuster, $25 hardcover, 9781451644708

    "Anna Karenina" [1877] by Leo Tolstoy
novel entry at Wikipedia

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" novella [1886]
"The Kreutzer Sonata" novella [1889];
"The Devil" novella [1889], published in 1911
"Resurrection" novel [1899];
"The Forged Coupon" novella [1911];
"Hadji Murat" novella [1912]
unfinished novel "The Decembrists" which Tolstoy intended to be a sequel to "War and Peace"
unfinished novel "Morning of A Landed Proprietor"

"Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2011] 9818-page Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [3/2011] for $2.99 contains: 12 novels and novellas: The 'Autobiographical Trilogy': Volume 1 "Childhood" [1852], Volume 2 "Boyhood" [1854], Volume 3 "Youth" [1856]; "Family Happiness" novella [1859]; "The Cossacks" [1863]; "War and Peace" [1869]; "Anna Karenina" [1877]; "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" novella [1886]; "The Kreutzer Sonata" novella [1889]; "Resurrection" [1899]; "The Forged Coupon" novella [1911]; "Hadji Murat" novella [1912]; {omitting the novella "The Devil" [1889], published in 1911}; two unfinished novels: "The Decembrists" and "Morning of A Landed Proprietor"; the short stories with indexes in chronological order and in alphabetical order; six stageplays: "The Power of Darkness" [1886]; "The First Distiller" [1886]; "Redemption: or, The Living Corpse" [1886], unpublished in Tolstoy's lifetime; "The Light Shines In Darkness" [1890]; "The Fruits of Enlightenment/Culture" [1891]; "The Cause of It All" [1910]; selected non-fiction: "A Confession" [1879]; "What Is To Be Done?" (also translated as 'What Then Must We Do?') [1886]; "On The Significance of Science and Art" [1887]; "Thoughts Evoked By The Census of Moscow, 1884-1885" [1889]; "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" [1893]; "Bethink Yourselves!" [1904]; "Tolstoy On Shakespeare [1906]; "The Journal of Leo Tolstoy, 1895-1899" [1917]; selected literary criticism: 1889 lectures "Tolstoy The Artist" and "Tolstoy The Preacher" by Ivan Panin; extract from "My Literary Passions" [1891] by William Dean Howells; extracts from "A Survey of Russian Literature" [1902] by Isabel Florence Hapgood; extract from "Essays On Russian Novelists" [1911] by William Lyon Phelps; "Russian Romance" essay [1913] by Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer; extract from "An Outline of Russian Literature" [1914] by Maurice Baring; extract from "Prophets Of Dissent" [1918] by Otto Heller; "The Russian Point of View" essay [1925] by Virginia Woolf; biographies: "Reminis-cences of Tolstoy" [1914] by son Ilya Tolstoy and "Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy" [1922] by wife Sofia Lvovich Tolstaya; bonus material includes special Main Character pages for 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' to aid reading these large novels, and many images relating to Tolstoy's life and works

"The Collected Works of Leo Tolstoy" for Kindle [2015] contains a selection of novels & novellas, short stories, stageplays, essays, and non-fiction books 8913-page Kindle Edition from Pergamon Media [4/2015] for $1.99

"Anna Karenina" [1935] /tt0026071/
starring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew

"Anna Karenina" [1948] /tt0040098/
Produced by Alexander Korda; starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson

"War and Peace" aka "Voyna i Mir" [Soviet Union 1968]
by Sergei Bondarchuk; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
author entry at Wikipedia
A new restoration of Bondarchuk’s sprawling film adaptation of Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" screened at Film Society of Lincoln Center in February 2019.

"Anna Karenina" [Focus Features Nov 2012]

Lavish 130-minute look at Russian aristocracy circa 1870s, a stirringly epic story of love • Directed by Joe Wright from Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard's bold adaptation of Tolstoy's 1878 novel; starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Jude Law DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site

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writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev [1818-83]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev

"Fathers and Sons" novel [1862]

"Posle Smerti (After Death)" [1915] based on Turgenev's story 'Clara Milich'
directed by Yevgeni Bauer, starring Vera Karalli

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