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Aleksandr Pushkin Dec. at 38 (1799-1837) Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born ...more

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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Dec. at 58 (1817-1875) Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical ...more

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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Dec. at 62 (1883-1945) Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels. During World War II, ...more

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Alexander Galich Dec. at 59 (1918-1977) Alexander Galich was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident.

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Alexander Sumarokov Dec. at 60 (1717-1777) Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in ...more

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Alexander Vertinsky Dec. at 68 (1889-1957) Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing.

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Anatoly Marienhof Dec. at 65 (1897-1962) Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof or Mariengof was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright. He was one of the leading figures of Imaginism. Now he is mostly remembered for his memoirs that depict ...more

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Andrei Voznesensky Dec. at 77 (1933-2010) Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of ...more

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Anna Akhmatova Dec. at 77 (1889-1966) Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon. Akhmatova's work ranges from short ...more

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Bella Akhmadulina Dec. at 73 (1937-2010) Izabella Akhatovna "Bella" Akhmadulina was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave ...more

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Boris Kochno Dec. at 86 (1904-1990) Boris Evgenievich Kochno or Kokhno was a Russian poet, dancer and librettist. Kochno was born in Moscow, Russia, on 3 January 1904. His father served as a colonel in the hussars. He studied at ...more

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Boris Pasternak Dec. at 70 (1890-1960) Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, is one of the most influential ...more

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Dmitry Khvostov Dec. at 78 (1757-1835) Count Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov, was a Russian poet, representing the late period of classicism in Russian literature. Count Khvostov, as he was widely known, was an exceedingly prolific author ...more

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Dmitry Merezhkovsky Dec. at 76 (1865-1941) Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the ...more

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Dmitry Strelnikov age 49 Dmitry Aleksandrovich Strelnikov is a Russian and Polish writer, biologist and a journalist for television, radio and the press, living in Poland; the graduate of The Correspondence Course of ...more

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Dmitry Vodennikov age 49 Dmitry Vodennikov is a Russian poet and essayist. In 2002, he was named as one of the ten best living Russian poets in a poll of 110 leading Russian poets and critics, being one of just two ...more

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Elena Shvarts Dec. at 62 (1948-2010) Elena Andreyevna Shvarts was a Russian poet. Born in Leningrad, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu, where her first poems were published in the university ...more

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Esper Ukhtomsky Dec. at 60 (1861-1921) Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky, Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia. He was a close confidant of Tsar Nicholas II and accompanied ...more

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Genrikh Sapgir Dec. at 71 (1928-1999) Genrikh Sapgir was a Russian poet and fiction writer of Jewish descent.

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Gosha Kutsenko age 48 Yuriy Georgiyevich Kutsenko, better known as Gosha Kutsenko, is a Russian actor, producer, singer, poet, and screenwriter. In 2008, he joined the United Russia party. Kutsenko has appeared in ...more

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Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia Dec. at 57 (1858-1915) Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown. He wrote under pen name "K.R.", initials of ...more

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Irena Ginzburg Irena Ginzburg is the wife of Alexander Zhurbin.

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Joseph Brodsky Dec. at 56 (1940-1996) Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, ...more

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Konstantin Balmont Dec. at 75 (1867-1942) Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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Lev Aleksandrovich Mey Dec. at 40 (1822-1862) Lev Aleksandrovich Mei was a Russian dramatist and poet.

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Lev Chernyi Lev Chernyi was a Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet, and a leading figure of the Third Russian Revolution. In 1917, Chernyi was released from his political imprisonment ...more

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Maya Deren Dec. at 44 (1917-1961) Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowskaia, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a ...more

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Mikhail Ivanovich Popov Dec. at 48 (1742-1790) Mikhail Ivanovich Popov was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist and opera librettist of the 18th century.

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Mikhail Lermontov Dec. at 27 (1814-1841) Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. ...more

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Natasha Borovsky age 94 Natasha Borovsky is a Russian American poet and novelist.

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Oleg Anofriyev age 85 Oleg Anofriev is an actor.

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Osip Mandelstam Dec. at 47 (1891-1938) Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union and husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam. He was one of ...more

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Piezo age 63 Pavel Zhagun is a Russian poet, musician, record producer, artist, and curator. Zhagun was raised in Ukraine and graduated from R.M. Glier Kiev Institute of Music as a trumpet player.

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Rolan Bykov Dec. at 69 (1929-1998) Rolan Antonovich Bykov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, script writer, poet, song writer. He was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1973 and the USSR State Prize in 1986. ...more

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Samuil Marshak Dec. at 77 (1887-1964) Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak Russian: Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к; 3 November [O.S. 22 October] 1887 – 4 July 1964 was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. He translated the ...more

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Vadim Delaunay Dec. at 36 (1947-1983) Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay was a Russian poet and dissident, who participated in the 1968 Red Square demonstration of protest against military suppression of the Prague Spring.

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Varlam Shalamov Dec. at 75 (1907-1982) Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.

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Vasily Pushkin Dec. at 64 (1766-1830) Vasily Lvovich Pushkin was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin. Vasily Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russia. During his early years, he has served ...more

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Vasily Zhukovsky Dec. at 69 (1783-1852) Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov ...more

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Vladimir Kostrov age 82 Vladimir Andreyevich Kostrov is a Russian poet. He is also a professor at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. He has been awarded the State Award of Russia and the Government Cultural

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Dec. at 37 (1893-1930) Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. 1913-1917 saw Mayakovsky's rise to fame as a leader of the Russian Futurist ...more

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Yevgeniy Yevtushenko age 83 Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, and editor, and a director of several films.