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russian literature
What does a Russian ball of yarn and Ariadne's thread have in common?
Alexander Radishchev: The Russian writer who suffered most for his work
How Mayakovsky brought a car from Paris for Lilya Brik (PHOTOS)
Overlooked Russian greats: Ilf & Petrov
How writer Mikhail Prishvin built the first Soviet motorhome (PHOTOS)
How Vladimir Mayakovsky once wrote a script for a French film
How Leo Tolstoy lost his entire HOME playing cards
What did classic Russian writers think about FAME?
Overlooked Russian greats: Zoshchenko
The origin of the ‘Magic Tablecloth’
Overlooked Russian greats: Zhukovsky
Did you know that Dostoevsky was almost executed at the age of 28?
Where did the invisibility cap come from?
5 facts about Russia’s leading avant-garde poet & ‘Chairman of the Globe’
The most famous DEMON in Russian literature! (PICS)
Who is ‘Viy’ in Russian literature? (PICS)
3 Types of Evil Spirits in Russian Literature
6 Russian mystical love stories
5 POPULAR Russian science fiction writers
‘Russian Fairy tales’ by Vladimir Dahl
The 5 MAIN madmen of Russian literature (PICS)
Overlooked Russian greats: Bulgakov
3 Russian fairy tales that were BANNED from publication
10 Western Works That Have Become… classics in Russia
How Leo Tolstoy literally changed the world
5 Russian writers who passionately loved… hunting!
What did Russian classic writers think about… TEA?
Why is Viktor Pelevin Russia’s MAIN writer today?
How Fyodor Dostoevsky ran the first Russian ‘BLOG’
Did Leo Tolstoy copy ‘Anna Karenina’ from Flaubert's novel?
How Leo Tolstoy earned ‘tea money’
This peasant poet was admired by both Pushkin & Nicholas I
7 screen adaptations of Soviet science fiction writers Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Words invented by Russian writers
4 Russian classic writers who wrote in FOREIGN languages
What Russian classic writers thought about FISHING
What wines did the heroes of Russian literature drink?
What were Soviet comic books about? (PICS)
3 reasons why Pushkin is so great (VIDEO)
What did Russian classic writers say about SUMMER?
How did Leo Tolstoy look for his love?
What did Russian classic writers think about Lent?
Guess the Russian writer blindfolded challenge! (VIDEO)
What did Russian classic writers think about SHROVETIDE?
What Russian classic writers said about laziness
Books by Russian writers that will make you laugh
3 jokes by Alexander Pushkin
8 books by Russian writers that will make you cry
What did classic Russian writers think about WINTER?
Why does Pushkin call the mother of young Tatiana in ‘Eugene Onegin’ an “old woman”?
Was Alexander Pushkin a Freemason?
What did Russian classical writers think about SUMMER?
How did Pushkin appear on an icon?
Did ‘Plyushkin’ exist in real life?
6 WEIRDEST Russian fairy tales
What did classic Russian writers think about FALL?
5 popular myths about Alexander Pushkin
‘The Idiot’: 5 reasons to read Dostoyevsky’s Christological masterpiece
Alexander Pushkin’s ‘The Belkin Tales’: A short summary
Alexander Pushkin’s ‘The Queen of Spades’: A short summary
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