Russian literature
Russian literature is literature written in the Russian language or by Russian people. Famous writers who were Russian include Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn.
Russian Literature Media
First page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book
Personal correspondence, the birch bark letter from Matchmaker's Milusha to Marena, 12th century, Veliky Novgorod
Krylov, Pushkin, Zhukovsky, and Gnedich in the Summer Garden by Grigory Chernetsov (1832)
Group photograph of some Russian Futurists, published in their manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. Left to right: Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Vladimir Burliuk, Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk, and Benedikt Livshits.
Korney Chukovsky and children, 1959