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Also Known As Viktor Olegovich Pelevin
Born November 22, 1962 (age 62) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works “A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories” • “Omon Ra” • “The Blue Lantern and Other Stories” • “The Life of Insects” • “The Yellow Arrow”
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
Russian writer and scholar
Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet humorist
Ilya Ilf
Soviet humorist
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian author
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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Blok
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Russian poet and dramatist
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
Andrey Bely
Russian poet
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin
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Bunin
Ivan Bunin
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Boris Pilnyak
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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