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Russian authors - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 51 times
- The average score is 8 of 16
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| His "Idiot" and "Crime and Punishment" are read all over the world | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 100%
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| An aristocrat, considered to be Russian greatest writer and thinker, he left his home and then died in a small appartement on the train station. | Leo Tolstoy | 98%
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| He is considered to be Russian greatest poet, author of "Eugene Onegin" | Alexander Pushkin | 95%
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| He was a troubled soul and famously burnt his book | Nikolai Gogol | 84%
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| He was a poet, a writer and renowned translator. For "Doctor Zhivago" he received Nobel Prize, but was bullied and tried by Soviet government, which is rumored to have led to his early death. | Boris Pasternak | 81%
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| His play was known as Stalin's favorite, but he portrayed him as a Satan in his masterpiece | Mikhail Bulgakov | 72%
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| A doctor and acclaimed short-story/play writer famously said that: "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature - my mistress" | Anton Chekhov | 63%
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| Poet who was a big fan of the above and died very young | Mikhail Lermontov | 53%
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| This writer was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature | Ivan Bunin | 40%
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| He didn't complete his school education and yet became one of the most prolific poets. He was forced out of USSR and received Nobel Prize in literature in 1987. | Joseph Brodsky | 28%
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| He couldn't be published in USSR, immigrated to New York and died young. He is now one of the most read Russian authors. His most famous works are "The Suitcase" and "Pushkin Hills" | Sergei Dovlatov | 16%
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| His masterpiece "The Kolyma Tales" depict true horrors of Gulag system that he endured | Varlam Shalamov | 16%
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| Author of "Primary Chronicle", which tells the history of early Russia | Nestor | 14%
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| Her children books are still read by many kids in Russia | Agniya Barto | 9%
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| Author of "Moscow-Petushki", he has infamously predicted his own death in it | Venedikt Yerofeyev | 7%
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| His poem "Babiy Yar" was a protest against Soviet government denial of atrocities against Jewish citizens, committed by Nazi's | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 7%
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