Writers and poets of Russia

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Sergey Dovlatov

Main article: Sergey Donatovich Dovlatov

Joseph Brodsky

Main article: Brodsky Joseph Alexandrovich

Evgeny Yevtushenko

Editor-in-chief of the magazine Ogonyok Vitaly Korotich with the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1987 TASS Photo Chronicle, Vladimir Repik

Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko with Robert Kennedy. New York, USA, 1967.

Victor Astafiev

Viktor Astafiev (1924-2001) is a prominent Russian writer, one of the most prominent representatives of Siberian prose. One of the leaders of the direction formed in the second half of the twentieth century, called "village prose."

Viktor Astafiev was born on May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka, Krasnoyarsk Territory. His childhood cannot be called happy. The father was convicted "for sabotage," the mother died during an accident. The boy was brought up in an orphanage. After graduating from FZO school, he worked on the railway.

In 1942, Viktor Astafiev volunteered for the front. He went through the whole war, was seriously wounded. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals "For Courage," "For the Liberation of Warsaw" and "For Victory over Germany." After the war he returned to the Urals.

Astafiev is almost the only soldier (not even a lieutenant) who has risen to the very top of the literary Olympus. But he was silent about the war for a long time. Then the story "Shepherd and Shepherd" appeared - not about war even, but about love in war, with such a mysterious metaphysics that the writer himself (his own statement) did not fully understand it.

And only the last major work - the novel "Damned and Killed" - was planned about the war.

It has inhuman scary pages. And maybe this was the reason why Astafiev did not reach the final, and the unfinished book crumbled into several stories from the post-war period.

Among them is the story "The Merry Soldier." A masterpiece equal to the best examples of Astafiev prose.

Viktor Petrovich Astafiev - hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of two State Prizes of the Russian Federation, two state prizes of the RSFSR named after M. Gorky, holder of the Order of Lenin. Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. From 1989 to 1991 - People's Deputy of the USSR.

Vladimir Nabokov

Butterfly hunting, Vladimir Nabokov, Switzerland, 1966.

Владимир Набоков (сидит) с игроками Русского спортивного клуба в Berlin

Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky, 1934.

Mikhail Bulgakov and Elena Nyurenberg.

Korney Chukovsky reads his fairy tale to his daughter Murochka. Leningrad, 1926

Mikhail Bulgakov

Vyacheslav Ivanov

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

"We condemn desertion from life"

Mayakovsky wrote a suicide letter on April 12, 1930 and carried it in his pocket for two days before deciding on his plan:

All Don't blame anyone for dying and please don't gossip. The deceased did not like it terribly. Mom, sisters and comrades, sorry - this is not the way (I do not advise others), but I have no way out. Lilya - love me. Comrade government, my family is Lilya Brik, mother, sisters and Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya. If you give them a tolerable life - thank you. Give the started poems to the Bricks, they will figure it out. As spoken - "the incident has been resolved," love boat crashed about life. I am with life in calculation and there is nothing to do with the list mutual pains, troubles and grievances.

It's happy to stay. Vladimir M and I to o in c and y.

12/IV -30g

Comrades Wappovtsy, do not consider me craven. Serioso - nothing can be done. Hi. Tell Ermilov that it's a pity - I took off the slogan, I need would be comfortable. V.M. I have 2000 rubles in the table. - contribute to the tax. Get the rest with Giza.

V.M.

Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky

Note to Mayakovsky from the listener. Avant-garde Museum on Shabolovka in Moscow.

Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Varvara Stepanova, Osip Beskin and Lilya Brik, 1928

Vladimir Mayakovsky in New York, USA, 1925.

Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Tamisi Naito, Arseniy Voznesensky, Olga Tretyakova, Sergey Eisenstein and Lilya Brik. 1924.

​​Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian Empire, 1911.

Nikolay Gumilyov

The great Russian poet Nikolai Gumilyov. Shot on the night of August 25-26, 1921. Photo from the investigation case.

Sergey Yesenin

Sergey Yesenin and the monument to Pushkin, Detsky Selo, 1924

Poets Imagists Alexander Kusikov, Anatoly Mariengof and Sergey Yesenin in Moscow, summer 1919 Photo card with the gift inscription "Friend Imagist Rurik Ivnev."

Sergey Yesenin and Anatoly Mariengof

Sergey Yesenin in Italy

Marina Tsvetaeva

Magda Nachman. Portrait of Marina Tsvetaeva. 1915. Private collection

Korney Chukovsky

Artist Ilya Repin (right) and writer Korney Chukovsky on the day of Leo Tolstoy's death in "Penates." Kuokkala, St. Petersburg, 1910. Photograph: Karl Bulla/Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Maxim Gorky

Icelandic singer Björk and Maxim Gorky. Moscow, 1989

Joseph Stalin and members of the Politburo carry an urn with the ashes of the writer Maxim Gorky, 1936.

Petrograd, 1920. Second Congress of the Comintern. At the palace of Uritsky (now the Tauride Palace).

Russian writer, prose writer and playwright - Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov (author's name - Alexey Maksimovich Gorky) pokes a broom at the Russian opera and chamber singer - Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire, Vyborg province, Mustamyaki village, spring 1914.

Vladimir Lenin visiting Maxim Gorky plays chess with philosopher Bogdanov, Capri, Italy, 1908.

Photo portrait of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. Photographer: Karl Karlovic Bulla, St. Petersburg province, Tsarskoye Selo Uyezd, Gatchina, Rozhdestveno estate, August 1908.

Ilya Repin and Natalya Nordman-Severova in Penaty with guests - Maxim Gorky and his lover, actress Maria Andreeva. 1905

Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy. Clear glade, 1900

Anton Chekhov

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Leo Tolstoy

Main article: Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich

Nikolay Nekrasov

MB Tulinov. Portrait of N.A. Nekrasov with a dog. Photo

Alexander Ostrovsky

Bakhrushinsky Museum

Ostrovsky: Photo by Aleksandrovsky in Moscow, 1870s. Collection of the Bakhrushinsky Museum

Portrait of A.N. Ostrovsky. Perov V.G., 1871, Tretyakov Gallery

The origins of Ostrovsky's love for the Volga are in those impressions that gave him a visit in 1848 with the family of the Shchelykovo estate, bought by his father in Kineshma district, and participation in 1856 in an expedition along the Volga organized by the Maritime Department for "young, gifted writers."

"The result of participation in this expedition was a diary kept by Alexander Nikolaevich. It was published in the "Maritime Collection" under the title "Journey along the Volga from the origins to Nizhny Novgorod." In the funds of the Bakhrushinsky Museum, we carefully preserve this rarity, like another author's manuscript - "The Experience of the Volga Dictionary," compiled by the playwright based on the results of a trip along the Volga, "said Svetlana Semikolenova, head of the House Museum A.N. Ostrovsky in Moscow.

The image of the great Russian river, so striking Ostrovsky, will continuously move from one of his works to another. Experts include the plays "Thunderstorm," "Kozma Zakharyich Minin, Sukhoruk," "Voivode (Dream on the Volga)," "Hot Heart," "Dowry," "Talents and Fans," "Guilty without guilt."

Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev

On December 5 (November 23), 1803, Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, translator, poet and publicist, diplomat, privy councilor (since 1865), was born in the Ovstug estate of the Bryansk district of the Oryol province

After graduating from Moscow University at the end of 1821, Tyutchev, on the recommendation of his relative Count A.I. Osterman-Tolstoy, was sent to a diplomatic mission in Munich. In Germany, he spent more than 20 years and, in addition to his main work, translated the works of German philosophers and writers, wrote poetry. But Tyutchev's poetry did not receive much fame, in Russia they almost did not know him until several manuscripts with works fell to Peter Vyazemsky and Vasily Zhukovsky. The latter showed the work of Tyutchev to A.S. Pushkin.

Publicist Yuri Samarin recalled: "Eyewitnesses told me how delighted Pushkin came when he first saw the collection of his [Tyutchev's] handwritten poems... He would rush around with them for a whole week.'

Pushkin published the works of Fyodor Ivanovich in the journal Sovremennik under the heading "Poems sent from Germany."

Throughout his life, Tyutchev wrote poetry, developing a unique style of philosophical lyrics. In total, about 350 of his poems are known. Here's one of them:

"Don't

F.I. Tyutchev. Photographer Levitsky S. L., St. Petersburg, 1856

Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev. Unknown engraver from the photograph of S.L. Levitsky in 1872. Printing house "F.A. Brockhaus." Germany, Leipzig 1,874

Guber Eduard Ivanovich

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Nikolay Gogol

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Alexander Pushkin

Main article: Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich

Anton Delvig

Main article: Delvig Anton Antonovich

18th century

Dictionary of Russian writers of the 18th century. Pushkin House

Ivan Krylov

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Ivan Yukin

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Alexander Radishchev

Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev was arrested for the book "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow," in which autocracy and serfdom were sharply criticized. For this publication, published in Radishchev's home printing house in 1790, the writer was sentenced to death. Empress Catherine II subsequently pardoned the writer, and the execution was replaced with a 10-year exile in Siberia.

Alexander Sumarokov

Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet, founder of the national theater (1717-1777)