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Alexander Karasyov

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

Great Baikal Trail

However, the modern idea of the Great Baikal Trail was brought up in 1997 by Oleg K. Gusev, Russian writer, photographer and scientist – who worked at the Barguzin Nature Reserve for over thirty years and was instrumental in forming the Baikal-Lensky Reserve.


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A picture is worth a thousand words

For example the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (in Fathers and Sons in 1862), "A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound."

Armand Maloumian

During his imprisonment he was held for a time with the Russian writer Yury Dombrovsky.

Cavendish, Vermont

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and historian, Nobel prize winner

Count of Merenberg

Natalia was a daughter of Alexander Pushkin, the most renowned Russian writer who ranked, however, only as a dvoryanin; an untitled member of the lower nobility.

Dmitry Gamov

He was a participant of a famous expedition (1852–1855) of vice-admiral Yevfimy Putyatin from Kronstadt to the Pacific Ocean on Russian frigate Pallada, which was popularized by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov in his book "Frigate Pallada".

Gustav Landauer Library

Foundation of the collection was a big book donation on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian writer and anarcho-pacifist Leo Tolstoy in 2010.

Jäneda

In the early 1900s the manor was owned by Countess, later Baroness, Moura (Maria Zakrevskaya Benckendorff) Budberg, who has been called the "Mata Hari of Russia" and who was close to Sir R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Russian writer Maxim Gorki and H.G. Wells.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

Journey From Petersburg to Moscow (in Russian: Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву), published in 1790, was the most famous work by the Russian writer Aleksander Nikolayevich Radishchev.

Magyarization

Massacre caused Kingdom of Hungary to lose much prestige in the eyes of the world when English historian R. W. Seton-Watson, Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy championed this cause.

Maria Rybakova

Rybakova is the only daughter of literary critic Natalia Ivanova, deputy editor of journal Znamya, and granddaughter of Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov.

Master of Orion

The game setting has been the influence of Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko's trilogy, the Line of Delirium.

Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky

Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky (born in 1874, Kiev, Russian Empire - died on March 17, 1951, Charolais, Department of Saône-et-Loire, France) was a Russian writer and a member of Russian apostolate.

Nevoruss

Nevoruss is a fictional European country created by Russian writer Grigoriy Demidovtsev as the location for his series of seven novels.

Oswald Rufeisen

The novel Daniel Stein, Translator by renowned Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was inspired by the life of Oswald Rufeisen.

Rybakov

Maria Rybakova (born 1973), Russian writer, granddaughter of Anatoly Rybakov

Theodor Storm

During a summer visit to Baden-Baden in 1864, where he had been invited by his friend, the author and painter Ludwig Pietsch, he made the acquaintance of the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.

Tournemire

Evgenia Tur (1815-1892), married name Countess Elizaveta Vasilyevna Salias De Tournemire, Russian writer, critic, journalist and publisher

Vladimir Belyayev

Vladimir Pavlovich Belyayev (1909–1990), Soviet Russian writer born in Ukraine

Yevgeny Dodolev

Evgeny Dodolev was the first official employee of extremely popular Russian Sovershenno Sekretno newspaper (which literally translates as Top Secret; in Russian "Совершенно секретно"; Editor in Chief – famous Russian writer Yulian Semyonov, a friend of John le Carré).

Yuri Petukhov

Yuri Dmitrievich Petukhov (May 17, 1951 – February 1, 2009) — Russian writer.

Zyryanovsk

Alfred Koch (born 1961) – Russian writer, mathematician-economist, and businessman