Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well...

the Russians. It was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet Union. Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation...

protection of Russian and other languages of national minorities. In 2017 a new Law on Education was passed which restricted the use of Russian as a language...

in Modern Russian Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 122. ISBN 978-1349198511. Cullingford, Cedric (1998). Children's Literature and its Effects...

efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution...

Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. Their mother tongue is Russian, the most spoken...

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was a predecessor of bestiaries (books of beasts). Medieval poetical literature is full of allusions that can be traced to the Physiologus tradition;...

the Russian Futurism movement within Russia, with its influences being seen in cinema, literature, typography, politics, and propaganda. The Russian Futuristic...

Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69804-7. Silver Age of Russian Poetry http://gallery...

kind of a stage filled with pains and joys, fatigue and hope. In Russian literature, the modernist novelist Aleksey Remizov is considered most impressionist...

mid-1980s, Russian gothic fiction as a genre began to be discussed in books such as The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, European...

and critics have recognized Gogol's huge influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky...

Old East Slavic literature, also known as Old Russian literature, is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient...

disappears from literature after the Peter the Great era. Russian writer Alexander Pigin, who in his book "Visions of the Other World in Russian Handwritten...

Russian culture (Russian: Культура России, romanized: Kul'tura Rossii, IPA: [kʊlʲˈturə rɐˈsʲiɪ]) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical...

January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the...

in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867 before the novel was published in its entirety in 1869. Tolstoy said that the best Russian literature does not...

mainstream Russian literature since the 18th century. Russian fantasy developed from the centuries-old traditions of Slavic mythology and folklore. Russian science...

Russian humour gains much of its wit from the inflection of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. As with any...

language in both literature and everyday spoken Russian. As Shklovsky puts it: "Russian literary language, which was originally foreign to Russia, has so permeated...

movement that began with mid-nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal) and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin). Literary realism attempts to represent...

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a...

Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly...

Rudin (1856), the protagonist reads works of German literature, including "Faust," to a young Russian girl who is in love with him. In Asya (1857), the...

The Pushkin House (Russian: Пушкинский дом, romanized: Pushkinsky Dom), formally the Institute of Russian Literature (Институ́т ру́сской литерату́ры)...

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(Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English...

opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin...

Pletnev in 1824 who dubbed the epoch "the Golden Age of Russian Literature." The most significant Russian poet Pushkin (in Nabokov's words, the greatest poet...