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    Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well...
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    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...
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    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...
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    in Modern Russian Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 122. ISBN 978-1349198511. Cullingford, Cedric (1998). Children's Literature and its Effects...
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    efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution...
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    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;...
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    the Russian Futurism movement within Russia, with its influences being seen in cinema, literature, typography, politics, and propaganda. The Russian Futuristic...
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  • Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69804-7. Silver Age of Russian Poetry http://gallery...
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  • kind of a stage filled with pains and joys, fatigue and hope. In Russian literature, the modernist novelist Aleksey Remizov is considered most impressionist...
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    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...
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    Nikolai Gogol (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    and critics have recognized Gogol's huge influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Russian culture (Russian: Культура России, romanized: Kul'tura Rossii, IPA: [kʊlʲˈturə rɐˈsʲiɪ]) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical...
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    Alexander Pushkin (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    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...
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    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...
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    mainstream Russian literature since the 18th century. Russian fantasy developed from the centuries-old traditions of Slavic mythology and folklore. Russian science...
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  • 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...
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    language in both literature and everyday spoken Russian. As Shklovsky puts it: "Russian literary language, which was originally foreign to Russia, has so permeated...
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  • movement that began with mid-nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal) and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin). Literary realism attempts to represent...
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    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...
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    Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Prosper Mérimée (category Russian–French translators)
    opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin...
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  • 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...
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