Curated category
Russian male short story writers
- Leo TolstoyLeo 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…
- Nikolai GogolIn 1820, a fifteen-year-old boy named Nikolai Gogol entered the School of Higher Art in Nezhin. His classmates gave him a nickname that stuck: mysterious…
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
- Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on the 11th of December 1918 in Kislovodsk. His father Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn died in a hunting accident…
- Alexander PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family that traced…
- Mikhail BulgakovMikhail Bulgakov was born on the 15th of May 1891 in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. He grew up at 28 Vozdvishenskaya Street as the oldest of seven…
- Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov adopted the pseudonym Maxim Gorky in 1892. The name meant bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a…
- Nikolai LeskovNikolai Semyonovich Leskov was born on the 4th of February 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol Gubernia. His father Semyon Dmitrievich worked as a…
- Yevgeny ZamyatinYevgeny Zamyatin was born in Lebedyan, south of Moscow, to a Russian Orthodox priest and a musician mother. He recalled his childhood as that of a very…
- Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinMikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov was born on the 27th of January 1826 in the village of Spas-Ugol. He entered the world as one of eight children within a large…