Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. With the break up of the USSR different countries and cultures may lay claim to various ex-Soviet writers who wrote in Russian on the basis of birth or of ethnic or cultural associations.

19th century

Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Zhukovsky and Aleksandr Pushkin came to the fore, followed by Mikhail Lermontov.

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Romanticism - Zhukovsky - Aleksandr Pushkin - Mikhail Lermontov

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Nineteenth-century developments included Ivan Krylov the fabulist; non-fiction writers such as Belinsky and Herzen; playwrights such as Griboedov and Ostrovsky; poets such as Evgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Afanasij Fet; Kozma Prutkov (a collective pen name) the satirist; and a group of widely-recognised novelists such as Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Goncharov.

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Ivan Krylov - Belinsky - Herzen - Griboedov - Ostrovsky - Evgeny Baratynsky - Konstantin Batyushkov - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy - Fyodor Tyutchev - Afanasij Fet - Kozma Prutkov - Nikolai Gogol - Leo Tolstoy - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Leskov - Ivan Turgenev - Saltykov-Shchedrin - Goncharov

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