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7 unusual facts about Russian literature


Alexander Karasyov

Alexander Karasyov (Russian — Александр Владимирович Карасёв, transl. Alexandr Vladimirovich Karasev) — Russian writer living in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Glenn Michael Souther

In 1982, Souther was given an honorable discharge from the Navy with a rank of petty officer first class to study Russian literature in Old Dominion University.

Ingrid Bengis

Naively in love with Russia and Russian literature, she settled in St. Petersburg in 1990 as the Soviet Union was collapsing, and quickly became immersed in "catastroika", a period of immense turmoil that mirrored her own increasingly complex and contradictory experience.

John Elsworth

John Elsworth is an English academic and translator, specialising in Russian literature.

Neyyire Neyir

She wrote articles on the Russian literature and Russian theatre in the theatre journal Darülbedayi, which her husband established on February 15, 1930.

Peter Carson

Peter Carson (3 October 1938 – 9 January 2013) was an English publisher, editor and translator of Russian literature.

Vladimir Vysotsky

He was even more impressed by his Russian literature teacher Andrey Sinyavsky who along with his wife often invited students to his home to stage improvised disputes and concerts.


Francisco Azuela

His father, a poet himself, introduced him to great Russian literature, such as Pushkin’s beautiful poem Ruslan and Ludmila.

Gather Together in My Name

As Hagen points out, since Angelou was encouraged to appreciate literature as a young child, she continues to read, exposing herself to a wide variety of authors, ranging from Countee Cullen's poetry to Leo Tolstoy and other Russian authors.

Giorgio Porreca

He had a university degree in Russian language and Russian literature and translated into Italian many Russian chess books.

Nuri Berköz

Along his military career, he was also deeply interested in history, Russian literature and Turkic languages.


see also

Carl Ray Proffer

He was the co-founder (with Ellendea Proffer) of Ardis Publishing, the largest publishing house devoted to Russian literature outside of the Soviet Union, and co-editor of Russian Literature Triquarterly (1971–91).

De Michelis

Cesare G. De Michelis, professor of Russian literature at the University of Rome

Elena Mestergazi

Elena Georgievna Mestergazi (born in 1967, Kaluga) is a Russian literary scholar who specializes in literary theory and 19th, 20th and 21st century Russian literature.

George Grebenstchikoff

The Grebenstchikoffs later moved to Florida, where George taught creative writing and Russian literature at Florida Southern College from 1941 to 1952.

Hu Xijin

After graduating with a master's degree in Russian literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1989, Hu began his career as a journalist at the People's Daily.

Nava Lubelski

She graduated from Hunter College High School in Manhattan in 1986 and earned a BA in Russian Literature and History from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in 1990.

Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast

Author Alexander Yashin, associated with the Village Prose movement in Russian literature, was born in 1913 in what is now Nikolsky District, got his education in Nikolsk, and lived in Nikolsk until the mid-1930s.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

In 1998, he joined the faculty of the American University of Paris (AUP), where he taught courses in Russian literature and translation.

Shomu Nobori

Despite the unpopularity of things Russian after the war, he contributed articles on Russian culture and literature to magazines and newspapers, and worked on the first comprehensive survey of Russian literature in Japanese, Roshia Bungaku Kenkyu ("Studies on Russian Literature", 1907).