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Goncharova [Natalia Goncharova-Pushkina]

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Goncharova [Natalia Goncharova-Pushkina]

Nataliya Nikolaevna Pushkina-Lanskaya, was the wife of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin from 1831 until his death in 1837 in a duel with Georges d'Anths.

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Ril'ke [Rilke]

R. M. Rilke is one of the greatest European poets, who, with his work and his personality, has powerfully influenced the development of world culture, including Russian. Thus, Boris Pasternak a year before his death characterized his own work as variation

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Bal'mont [Konstantin Balmont]

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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Dzhois [James Joyce. A full biography]

A biography of an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are pa

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Kheminguei [Ernest Hemingway]

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He won the Nobel Prize

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev: Chasing Eternal Spring] Full Biorgaphy

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev: Chasing Eternal Spring] Full Biorgaphy

The book presents the first detailed biography of an outstanding prozoika and poet, a fine master of the word Valentin Petrovich Kitaev, devoid of ideological bias. Few people know that the writer comes from an ancient priestly family, among his close rel

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Eduard Limonov [Eduard Limonov. Full Biography]

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Eduard Limonov [Eduard Limonov. Full Biography]

Эдуард Лимонов - одна из самых противоречивых фигур современной российской литературы и политики. За свою жизнь он успел побывать московским богемным поэтом, бесприютным эмигрантом в Нью-Йорке, модным писателем в Париже, а потом - радикальным политиком, к

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Leonid Andreev [Leonid Andreev]

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period.

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Viktor Astaf'ev [Viktor Astafyev]

Soviet and Russian writer of short stories and novels.

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Batiushkov [Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov]

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Batiushkov [Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov]

A complete biography of a Russian poet, essayist and translator of the Romantic era. Batyushkov also served in the diplomatic corps, spending an extended period in 1818 and 1819 as a secretary to the Russian diplomatic mission at Naples.

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Blavatskaia [Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]

This woman's name is surrounded by myths and fantasies. Reactions to the works and practices of this well-known theosoph vary widely-from rough admiration of the hidden possibilities of human reason, which Helena Blavatskaia studied, to violent disapprov

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Shukshin [Vasilii Shukshin]

Biography of Vasilii Shukshin, famous actor, director, and writer.

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Vladimir Solov'ev [Vladimir Solov'ev]

Creative biography of one of the most famous Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) and his surroundings.

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Konan Doil [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]

Full biography of the Scottish author, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific write

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Frants Kafka [Franz Kafka]

Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Mishel' Fuko [Michel Foucault]

French philosopher, historian, intellectual, critic and sociologist. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Foucault is best known for his critica

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Oskar Uail'd [Oscar Wilde]

Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

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Giliarovsky [Vladimir Gilyarovsky]

Vladimir Giliarovsky (1855-1935) was a great news reporter, a true legend who was friends with A.Chekhov, V.Briusov, A.Blok, F.Shaliapin, K.Stanislavsky, I.Repin, A.Savrasov and many others.

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Gegel' [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher.

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Paskal' [Blez Paskal]

Blez Paskal - 'king in the kingdom of intellectuals'.

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Tsitseron [Cicero]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC).

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Gamsun [Knut Hamsun]

Knut Hamsun 91859-1952), Nobel Prize winner, Norvegian writer who has been highly admired by readers all over the world and who has been banned in Russia after 1940s because he supported Nazis...

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Merezhkovskii [Dmitry Merezhkovsky]

Book contains full and updated D.Merezhkovsky's (1865-1941) biography.

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev] Biography

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev] Biography

В книге представлена первая подробная биография выдающегося прозаика и поэта, тонкого мастера слова Валентина Петровича Катаева (1897-1986), лишенная идеологической предвзятости. Немногие знают, что писатель происходил из старинного священнического рода,

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Shklovskii [Viktor Shklovskii]

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer.

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Sommerset Moem [Somerset Maugham]

A complete biography of an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. Maugham was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

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Griboedov [Aleksandr Griboedov]

For the first time in Russian, the artistic and scientific biography of Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov, author of 'Woe from Wit,' a brilliant musician, diplomat, and lover of women, is available. This book, based on archived documents, presents an authen

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Arkadii Averchenko [Arkady Averchenko]

Arkady Averchenko is a "king of laughter", Russian Mark Twain, author of many short stories, editor of satirical magazines. His personality still remains a puzzle and his life is full of riddles: he never got married, his pamphlets got high reviews from V

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Omar Khaiam [Omar Khayy m]

He is best known for his poetry, and outside Iran, for the quatrains (rubaiyaas). His substantial mathematical contributions include his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which gives a geometric method for solving cubic equations by inters

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Sulla [Sulla]

Sulla was a Roman general and a conservative politician, holding the office of consul twice as well as the dictatorship.

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Arina Rodionovna [Arina Rodionovna]

Arina Rodionovna is the most famous Russian nanny. She took care of small Alexander Pushkin and by boosting his imagination with native folklore, she inspired him to write his most read tales and poems.

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