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Also Known As Afanasy Afanasyevich Foeth • Afanasy Afanasyevich Shenshin
Born December 5, 1820 • Russia
Died December 3, 1892 (aged 71) • Moscow • Russia

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Thomas Gwynn Jones, oil painting by Evan Walters, 1945; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
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Slovak poet
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Aleksandr Pushkin
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Russian poet
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Russian author
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
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Khomyakov, engraving by Ivan Pozhalostin, 1879
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov
Russian poet and theologian
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian poet
Blok
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
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Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich
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