This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War 1, and the two instalments of the Russian Revolution.

She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

For instance, the name " Lord Sto Odin " in the story " Under Old Earth " is derived from the Russian words for " One hundred and one ", сто один.

Category: Russian short story writers

Even in relatively new story collection translated as Russian 19th Century Gothic Tales ( from 1984 ), the editor used the name „ Фантастический мир русской романтической повести “ ( The Fantastic World of Russian Romanticism Short Story / Novella ).

Pushkin is particularly important, as his short story The Queen of Spades ( 1833 ) was adapted into operas and movies by both Russian and foreign artists.

The small banqueting hall of the Russian Tsars, called the Palace of Facets because of its facetted upper story, is the work of two Italians, Marco Ruffo and Pietro Solario, and shows a more Italian style.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

The greatest specialist of the Russian short story however was Anton Chekhov.

His granddaughter Tatiana Tolstaya ( born in 1951 ) is one of the foremost Russian short story writers.

The next year he was tried for maligning the Imperial Russian Military in his story Na Kulichkakh ( At the world's end ).

The term " Russian Roulette " originated in an eponymous 1937 short story by George Surdezof:

One of the characters is Colonel Vavara Novikova ( Russian surnames having masculine and feminine forms ), who accompanies the protagonist and antagonist back in time to their birth so that they can be delivered to the orphanage where their story begins.

It also echoed in the Tale of Queen Dinara, a popular 16th-century Russian story about a fictional Georgian queen fighting against the Persians.

Russian filming locations were not possible due to the Cold War, and the film had to be shot in Vienna and other locations in Austria to simulate many of the Eurasian story locations.

* ( 1886 ) In the short story Excellent People by Anton Chekhov, typhus kills a Russian provincial.

* Ace Combat: Assault Horizon: Another Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360 as well as PS3, it follows the story of a U. S Air Force / NATO colonel and takes place in the real world in a war between the United States and NATO against a rebel force in Africa, Russian coup forces and a mercenary ace driven to revenge for the death of his wife.

Released in 1988, this was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike Set against the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the film tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon, Tomas ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina ( Lena Olin ).

Reports from his second voyage were jealously guarded by the Russian administration, preventing Bering's story from being retold in full for at least a century after his death.

There are at least fourteen English-language films based on the story ( see also: The Adventures of Pinocchio ), not to mention the Italian, French, Russian, German, Japanese, and many other versions for the big screen and for television, and several musical adaptations.

The film, based on a novel by Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a physician and poet ( Omar Sharif ) who falls in love with an unavailable woman named Lara ( Julie Christie ) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.

Despair – A journey into the Light ( Despair – Eine Reise ins Licht ) tells the story of Hermann Hermann, an unbalanced Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, whose business and marriage have both grown bitter.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

The philosopher Crantor, a student of Plato's student Xenocrates, is often cited as an example of a writer who thought the story to be historical fact.

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert Graves ' Claudius story in his two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn.

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1865.

* 1930 – Edna O ' Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote his short story " There Are More Things " in memory of Lovecraft.

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

* John Brown ( American author ) ( born 1966 ), novelist and short story writer

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

James Alan McPherson ( born September 16, 1943 ) is an American short story writer and essayist.

The 12th-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes, who added Lancelot and the Holy Grail to the story, began the genre of Arthurian romance that became a significant strand of medieval literature.

In a 2008 story from the Daily Telegraph ( London ), writer David Gritten offered the following observation on " Forever Changes " while discussing a documentary on Love.

The 1943 war-time story " Nothing But Gingerbread Left ", written decades before by science fiction writer Henry Kuttner, has a very close premise.

They state that this story may originate with an over-excited Victorian letter writer sharing somewhat exaggerated accounts of his exotic life in the tropical colony with a British audience back home.