Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

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Also Known As	Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov
Born	March 31, 1882 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died	October 28, 1969 (aged 87) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works	“From Two to Five”
Subjects Of Study	Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov • childhood • language acquisition

Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam

Russian poet

Vladimir Nabokov

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American author

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Russian author

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva

Russian poet

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

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Russian writer

Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev

Russian poet

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky

Russian writer

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Bernardas Brazdžionis

Lithuanian author

Andrew Lang

British scholar

Judith Wright

Australian poet

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

Lermontov, Mikhail

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer

Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Russian author

Lomonosov, Mikhail

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian author and scientist

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

Russian poet

Khomyakov, engraving by Ivan Pozhalostin, 1879

Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov

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