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Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya (Russian: Людмила Евгеньевна Улицкая, born February 21, 1943) is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer who, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her oeuvre.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [a] [b] (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [6] [7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
In the USSR, the writer was known from underground publication samizdat and broadcasting organization Radio Liberty Channel since his works were not published in the Soviet Union. After his death and the beginning of Perestroika as a turning point in the Russian history, numerous collections of his short stories were also published in Russia.
"The Nose" (Russian: Нос, romanized: Nos) is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on the grotesque and absurd, with a romantic twist. [1]
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. [1]
Maxim Alexandrovich Osipov (Russian: Максим Александрович О́сипов; born 4 October 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist. [1] His short stories and essays have won a number of prizes, and his plays have been staged and broadcast on the radio in Russia.
Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov (Russian: Серге́й Терентьевич Семёнов; March 28, 1868 – December 3, 1922) was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. Biography
The Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) "White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, Belye nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator.