Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Russia

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Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American Poet and Essayist
(1940-1996)

Just the Facts:

Name: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
Known as: Joseph Brodsky
Birth: May 24, 1940, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Death: January 28, 1996, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Language: Russian; English
Who he was: Russian-American poet and essayist; Gorbunov and Gorchakov; Less Than One: Selected Essays; Nobel Prize in Literature (1987); Poet Laureate of the USA (1991)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Ayn Rand, Russian-American Writer
(1905-1982)

Just the Facts:

Name: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Known as: Ayn Rand
Birth: February 2, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Death: March 6, 1982, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: Russian, English
Who she was: Russian-American novelist, philosopher, and playwright; The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American Novelist
(1899-1977)

Just the Facts:

Name: Vladimir Nabokov
Birth: April 22, 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Death: July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland
Language: Russian, English
Who he was: Russian-American novelist; novels The Defense; The Gift; Bend Sinister; Lolita; Pnin; Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; memoir Speak, Memory
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Writer
(1918-2008)

Just the Facts:

Name: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Birth: December 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia
Death: August 3, 2008, Moscow, Russia
Language: Russian, English
Who he was: Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer; The First Circle; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Cancer Ward; August 1914; The Gulag Archipelago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom

Isaac Babel, Russian Writer
(1894-1940)

Just the Facts:

Name: Isaac Babel
Birth: July 13, 1894, Odessa, Ukraine
Death: January 27, 1940, Butyrka prison, Moscow, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian journalist, playwright, and short story writer; Red Cavalry; Story of My Dovecote; Tales of Odessa
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer
(1891-1953)

Just the Facts:

Name: Sergei Prokofiev
Birth: April 23, 1891, Krasne, Ukraine
Death: March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian composer; The Love for Three Oranges; Lieutenant Kijé; Romeo and Juliet; Alexander Nevsky; Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphony No. 1 ("Classical"); Peter and the Wolf

Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian Writer and Playwright
(1891-1940)

Just the Facts:

Name: Mikhail Bulgakov
Birth: May 15, 1891, Kiev, Ukraine
Death: March 10, 1940, Moscow, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian writer and playwright; The Master and Margarita
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Boris Pasternak, Russian Poet and Novelist
(1890-1960)

Just the Facts:

Name: Boris Pasternak
Birth: February 10, 1890, Moscow, Russia
Death: May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian poet and novelist; My Sister; Life; The Second Birth; Doctor Zhivago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1958)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Marc Chagall, Russian-French Artist
(1887-1985)

Just the Facts:

Name: Marc Chagall
Birth: July 6, 1887, Vitebsk, Belarus
Death: March 28, 1985, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Language: Russian, French
Who he was: Russian-French artist; I and the Village; Adam and Eve; The Fiddler; Bouquet with Flying Lovers; Bella with White Collar; The Circus Horse; The Father

Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer
(1882-1971)

Just the Facts:

Name: Igor Stravinsky
Birth: June 17, 1882, Lomonosov, Russia
Death: April 6, 1971, New York City, New York, USA
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian composer; L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird); Petrushka; Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Maxim Gorky, Russian Writer
(1868-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Known as: Maxim (or Maksim) Gorky
Birth: March 28, 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Death: June 18, 1936, Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and poet; short story Twenty-six Men and a Girl; poem "The Song of the Stormy Petrel"; novel The Mother; plays The Lower Depths, Summerfolk and Children of the Sun
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Vladimir Lenin, Russian Revolutionary and
Political Theorist (1870-1924)

Just the Facts:

Name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Known as: Vladimir Lenin
Birth: April 22, 1870, Ulyanovsk, Russia
Death: January 21, 1924, Gorki Leninskiye, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian revolutionary and political theorist; State and Revolution; Imperialism

Anton Chekhov, Russian Playwright
and Short Story Writer (1860-1904)

Just the Facts:

Name: Anton Chekhov
Birth: January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Death: July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian playwright and short story writer,; Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters; "The Darling"
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Sholem Aleichem, Russian/Ukrainian
Author and Playwright (1859-1916)

Just the Facts:

Name: Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich
Known as: Sholem Aleichem
Birth: March 2, 1859, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Death: May 13, 1916, New York City, New York, USA
Language: Yiddish, English (?)
Who he was: Russian/Ukrainian author and playwright; stories of Tevye the Dairyman: Tevye's Daughter; Adventures of Mottel; The Old Country
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer
(1844-1908)

Just the Facts:

Name: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Birth: March 18, 1844, Tikhvin, Russia
Death: June 21, 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian composer; Capriccio Espagnol; Scheherazade; "Flight of the Bumblebee"

Modest Mussorgsky, Russian Composer
(1839-1881)

Just the Facts:

Name: Modest Mussorgsky
Birth: March 21, 1839, Toropets, Russia
Death: March 28, 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian composer; Boris Godunov; Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist
(1834-1907)

Just the Facts:

Name: Dmitri Mendeleev
Birth: February 8, 1834, Tobolsk, Russia
Death: February 2, 1907, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian chemist; The Principles of Chemistry; An Attempt Towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether; Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writing
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 4)

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Anarchist
(1814-1876)

Just the Facts:

Name: Mikhail Bakunin
Birth: May 30, 1814, Torzhok, Russia
Death: July 1, 1876, Bern, Switzerland
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian anarchist; God and the State; Statism and Anarchy

Nikolai Gogol, Russian Writer
(1809-1852)

Just the Facts:

Name: Nikolai Gogol
Birth: March 31, 1809, Velyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
Death: March 4, 1852, Moscow, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian writer; novels Dead Souls; Taras Bulba; short stories "The Overcoat"; "Diary of a Madman"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; Bloom

Alexander Pushkin, Russian Writer
(1799-1837)

Just the Facts:

Name: Alexander Pushkin
Birth: June 6, 1799, Moscow, Russia
Death: February 10, 1837, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian poet, playwright, and novelist; Eugene Onegin; The Captain's Daughter; Boris Godunov; Ruslan and Ludmila
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB; Bloom

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