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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: 96. Chapters: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Boris Pasternak, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Maxim Gorky, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Alexandra Kollontai, Vasily Grossman, Eduard Limonov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Andrei Platonov, Vasily Aksyonov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Valentin Rasputin, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Vladimir Bogomolov, Bulat Okudzhava, Leonid Leonov, Konstantin Paustovsky, Valentin Kataev, Boris Polevoy, Andrei Bely, Alexander Grin, Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev, Vladimir Voinovich, Konstantin Simonov, Lydia Chukovskaya, Yury Olesha, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Daniil Granin, Fazil Iskander, Vera Panova, Yuli Daniel, Anatoly Rybakov, Fyodor Gladkov, Viktor Astafyev, Yury Trifonov, Ilf and Petrov, Konstantin Fedin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, Viktor Nekrasov, Daniil Andreyev, Sasha Sokolov, Yulian Semyonov, Fyodor Abramov, Vsevolod Ivanov, Vladimir Tendryakov, Alexander Bek, Natalya Baranskaya, Nikolai Virta, Yury Dombrovsky, Eugene Kozlovsky, Vladimir Soloukhin, Vladimir Makanin, Veniamin Kaverin, Yuri Nagibin, Boris Pilnyak, Aleksey Chapygin, Andrei Bitov, Lazar Lagin, M. Ageyev, Dmitry Furmanov, Yevgeny Petrov, Ilya Ilf, Anatoly Gladilin, Vasily Azhayev. Excerpt: Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, (Russian: August 2 (14), 1865, St Petersburg - December 9, 1941, Paris) 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 Symbolist movement, Merezhkovsky - with his poet wife Zinaida Gippius - was twice forced into political exile; in his second emigration since 1918 he continued publishing successful novels and made himself quite a name as a critic of Soviet Russia. Known both as a self-styled religious prophet with his own slant on apocalyptic Christianity, and the author of philosophical historic...
