Nikolay Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov

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9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Born	February 5, 1836 • Nizhny Novgorod • Russia
Died	November 29, 1861 (aged 25) • St. Petersburg • Russia • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Notable Works	“What Is Oblomovism”
Subjects Of Study	Russian literature • superfluous man

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky

Russian literary critic

Fyodor Abramov

Russian writer

Viktor Shklovsky

Soviet author

Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky

Russian writer

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov

Russian author

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev

Russian writer and scholar

Anton Chekhov

Russian author

Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam

Russian poet

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russian author

Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov

Russian writer

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

Russian author

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

Russian author

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva

Russian poet

Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev with his twin brother, Roy

Zhores Medvedev

Soviet biologist and dissident

Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov

Russian author

Joseph Brodsky

American poet

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879

Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy

Russian writer

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