Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

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Born	May 31, 1899 • Moscow • Russia
Died	August 8, 1994 (aged 95) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works	“The Badgers” • “The Thief”

Valentin Katayev

Soviet writer

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian author

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Russian poet

Yury Karlovich Olesha

Russian author

Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov, from a Soviet postage stamp, 1965.

Vsevolod Ivanov

Soviet writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

Maxim Gorky

Russian writer

Nikolay Gogol

Ukrainian-born writer

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author

Leonid Andreyev

Russian author

Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov

Russian author

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

Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy

Russian writer

Aleksey Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy

Soviet writer

Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky

Russian author

Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov

Russian writer

Isaac Babel

Russian author

Anatoly Rybakov

Russian author

Chingiz Aytmatov

Kyrgyz author

Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer

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