Vasily Katanyan

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Also Known As	Vasily Abgarovich Katanyan
Born	April 28, 1902 • Moscow • Russia • (Birthday in 7 days)
Died	February 15, 1980 (aged 77) • Moscow • Russia
Subjects Of Study	Russian literature • literature • Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

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Zhores Medvedev

Soviet biologist and dissident

Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky

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British writer

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Georg Brandes

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Sir Edmund Gosse

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Johannes V. Jensen

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Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Ivan Bunin

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Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

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Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

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Russian author

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva

Russian poet

Joseph Brodsky

American poet

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