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Leo Tolstoy is one of the best-known Russian writers, and his novels are considered great classics. He was born in 1828 and lived until 1910. During his lifetime, he penned novels, short stories, plays, and essays. He was nominated repeatedly for a Nobel Prize, although he never won.
Who are the big three Russian authors?
Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev wrote masterful short stories and novels. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy became internationally renowned.
What is the greatest work of Russian literature?
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Often hailed by critics as the greatest novel ever written, this epic tale traces the fortunes of five aristocratic families living through Russia's wars with Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th century.
Who was the Russian writer who wrote in English?
Nabokov is known as one of the leading prose stylists of the 20th century; his first writings were in Russian, but he achieved his greatest fame with the novels he wrote in English.
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