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19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire

Leo Tolstoy11 minLeo Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life on a train, preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers, before pneumonia stopped him at a small railway station. He was born Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1828, into old…
Nikolai Gogol9 minNikolai Vasilyevich Gogol once described a planned masterpiece as a Russian answer to Dante's Divine Comedy. He never finished it. On the night of the 24th of February 1852, he burned the manuscript that held most of the second part of…
Vissarion Belinsky8 minVissarion Belinsky died on the eve of his arrest. The Tsar's police were coming for him on account of his political views, but consumption took him first in 1848. He was one of the most influential literary critics Russia had ever…
Fyodor Rostopchin8 minFyodor Rostopchin left Moscow on the 14th of September 1812 after ordering his own house burned to the ground. He left behind disassembled fire engines, fuses planted throughout the city, and a small detachment of police charged with…
Alexander Pushkin14 minAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin could not speak Russian well until he was ten years old. The boy who would become the father of Russian literature grew up speaking mostly French, picking up his native tongue from household serfs and a…
Ivan Turgenev11 minIvan Turgenev had a brain that weighed 2,012 grams, one of the largest ever recorded. The man who carried it was tall and broad-shouldered, yet timid, restrained, and soft-spoken. He was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet,…
Maxim Gorky16 minMaxim Gorky was born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod, and by the time he died in June 1936, his ashes were carried through Moscow by Joseph Stalin himself. Between those two facts lies a life of extraordinary contradiction: a…
Alexander Herzen8 minAlexander Herzen was born in Moscow in 1812, just weeks before Napoleon's armies marched into the city. His very name was invented by his father, a rich Russian landowner named Ivan Yakovlev, who derived it from the German word Herz,…
Ivan Krylov10 minIvan Andreyevich Krylov did not discover his true calling until he was 40 years old. By then he had already tried his hand at comedy writing, journalism, civil service, and what legend described as years of wandering from town to town…
Leonid Andreyev7 minLeonid Andreyev sold a quarter-million copies of his debut short-story collection in 1901, making him an overnight literary star in Russia. He wrote 25 plays, published explosive fiction that caused public commotion, and became a household…
Nikolai Leskov13 minNikolai Semyonovich Leskov died on the 5th of March 1895, and his funeral was held in silence. He had written the instruction into his will in December 1892: no speeches over his body. "I know I have many bad things in me and do not…
Afanasy Fet13 minAfanasy Fet died on the 21st of November 1892 with a paper knife in his hand and a suicide note on the table. His secretary had just wrestled the blade away from him, cutting her own hand in the struggle. Moments later, chased through the…
Fyodor Tyutchev10 minFyodor Tyutchev wrote roughly 400 short poems across his entire life, yet he rarely bothered to write them down. When he did, he frequently lost the scraps of paper they were scribbled on. He called them bagatelles, trifles not worth…
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin15 minMikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was the kind of writer whose very name became a language. By the end of his life, critics spoke of a prose style so distinctive they called it 'saltykovian.' A man who spent decades as a government official, who…
Nikolay Nekrasov19 minNikolay Nekrasov was the Russian poet who turned a funeral into a political uprising. On the 8th of January 1878, four thousand people followed his coffin to the Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. The procession did not stay solemn…
Konstantin Balmont15 minKonstantin Balmont once sent Leo Tolstoy a copy of his most celebrated book with a letter that read: "This book is a prolonged scream of a soul caught in the process of being torn apart." That sentence captures something essential about a…