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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Zamfir Arbore, Konstantin Balmont, Dmitry Puchkov, Makarenko Vladimir Afanasyevich, Nikolay Karamzin, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Vasily Zhukovsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, Alexander Mezhirov, Viktor Pogadayev, Valeri Brainin, Elena Kostioukovitch, Bidia Dandaron, Eugen V. Witkowsky, Mikhail Dostoyevsky, Marina Palei, Vikenty Veresaev, Arkady Gornfeld, Maxim D. Shrayer, Mikhail Gasparov, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Sophia Parnok, Antiochus Kantemir, Nikolai Annensky, Gregory Zilboorg, Constantin Stamati, Mikhail Ivanov, Alexander Druzhinin, Platon Obukhov, Boris Brasol, Ilya Kormiltsev, Sergei Vinogradov, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Nora Gal, Ivan Yelagin, Dmitry Gerasimov, Alexander Ivanovich Galich, Mikhail Lozinsky, Leonid Volodarskiy, Lev Mei, Marina Gershenovich, Lidia Veselitskaya, Olga Obukhova, Alexandre Skirda, Ivan Born, Vilen Komissarov, Alexander Khakhanov, Elena Fanailova, Viktor Golyshev, Liubov Gurevich, Margarita Aliger, Ivan Kozlov, Gavril Kamenev, Miriam Mosessohn, Nikolay Gnedich, Gennadiy Prashkevich, Princess Sophia Amirajibi, Natalia Tolstaya, Gertrude Vakar, Marat Fidarov, Vladimir Shileyko, Nochum Shtif, Semyon Raich. Excerpt: Zamfir Constantin Arbore (Romanian pronunciation: born Zamfir Ralli, Russian: , Zemfiriyi Konstantinovich Arborye-Ralli; also known as Zamfir Arbure, Zamfir Rally, Zemphiri Ralli and Aivaza; November 14, 1848 - April 2 or April 3, 1933) was a Bukovinan-born Romanian political activist originally active in the Russian Empire, also known for his work as an amateur historian, geographer and ethnographer. Arbore debuted in left-wing politics from early in life, gained an intimate knowledge of the Russian revolutionary milieu, and participated in both nihilist and Narodnik conspiracies. Self-exiled to Switzerland, he became a member o...