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Who are the most important authors in Russia?

Question by antoniagreece: best authors in russia?
Who are the most important and well known Russian authors?

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Answer by Ben C
Well for poets there is Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky.
And for prose writers Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Answer by redz
Authors from Russia
Achmed Abdullah
Aleksandr and Sergei Abramov
Vasili Aksenov
** Boris Akunin
Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosoff
*** Ilona Andrews New Books
Alexander Beliaev
Nina Berberova
Dmitri Bilenkin
Madame Blavatsky
Reginald Bretnor
Mikhail Bulgakov
Kir Bulychev
* Anton Chekhov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Garros-Evdokimov
Anatoly Gladilin
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Nikolai Gogol
Ivan Gontcharoff
Vasily Grossman
Olga Grushin
Alexander Ikonnikov
Daniil Kharms
Andrey Kurkov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
** Sergei Lukyanenko
Andreï Makine
* Vladimir Nabokov
Vera Nazarian
Boris Pasternak
Victor Pelevin
Alexander Pushkin
Ayn Rand
Oksana Robski
Andrei Rubanov
Vladimir Savchenko
Mikhail Sholokhov
* Paullina Simons
Feodor Sologub
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Alexander Terekhov
* Leo Tolstoy
Leonid Tsypkin
Ivan Turgenev
Anya Ulinich
Immanuel Velikovsky
David Vogel
Dragan Vujic
I Yefremov
Eugene Zamiatin

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  1. Kerry says

    The ones I would say are most important are probably:

    1. Aleksandr Pushkin
    2. Leo (Lev) Tolstoy
    3. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    After them, in no particular order:

    Nikolai Gogol
    Anton Chekhov
    Ivan Turgenev
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Vladimir Nabokov
    Anna Akhmatova
    Boris Pasternak
    Marina Tsvetaeva
    Mikhail Lermontov
    Osip Mandelstam
    Aleksandr Blok
    Innokenty Annensky
    Sergei Esenin
    Andrey Beliy
    Evgeny Zamyatin
    Vladimir Mayakovsky
    Joseph Brodsky
    Mikhail Lomonosov

    Also Ilf and Petrov, though they are maybe not so much important as beloved. 🙂

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