We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 1869 )

* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

* 1958 – Victor Shenderovich, Russian writer

* 1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer ( b. 1621 )

* 1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer ( b. 1893 )

* 1903 – Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer and writer ( d. 1978 )

" A writer has died ," he began, " who, together with Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, forms part of the glory of Russian literature.

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2008 )

* 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer ( b. 1925 )

* 1937 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer

In 1999, the bicentennial year of Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin, Hofstadter published a verse translation of Pushkin's classic novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin.

* 1904 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer ( d. 1977 )

* 1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer

* 2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer ( Grazhdanskaya Oborona ) ( b. 1964 )

* 1944 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer ( b. 1872 )

* 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer ( d. 1895 )

During the last years of the Russian Empire, in the early 20th century, many authors continued to write in the gothic fiction genre, including historian and historical fiction writer Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who developed psychological characterization, symbolist Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Alexander Grin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin.

Russian writer Vadim Erlikman, for example, makes the following estimates: executions, 1. 5 million ; gulags, 5 million ; deportations, 1. 7 million out of 7. 5 million deported ; and POWs and German civilians, 1 milliona total of about 9 million victims of repression.

* 1872 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer ( d. 1944 )

* 1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group ; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.

* February 9 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist ( b. 1821 )

* November 11 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer ( d. 1881 )

* November 16 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is cancelled at the last minute.

Sbiten is often mentioned in the works of 19th-century Russian writers, including Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

" His labyrinthine city provided a literary model used later by English novelist Charles Dickens and Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

As Jean-Luc Godard said, " Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is the German music.

Jean-Luc Godard also looked back at Bresson with high admiration, comparing his position in French Cinema with that of Dostoevsky in Russian Literature and Mozart in German Music (“ Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is the German music.

* October 30-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist ( died 1881 )

The Russian Futurists sought controversy by repudiating the art of the past, saying that Pushkin and Dostoevsky should be " heaved overboard from the steamship of modernity ".

During the Russian Empire, Siberia was an agricultural province and served as a place of exile, among others for Avvakum, Dostoevsky, and the Decembrists.

* Writing on the purely superficial westernization of Russian intellectuals in his travel journalism Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Dostoevsky writes: ' There is no soil, we say, and no people, nationality is nothing but a certain system of taxation, the soul is a tabula rasa, a small piece of wax out of which you can readily mould a real man, a world man or a homunculus – all that must be done is to apply the fruits of European civilisation and read two or three books ’

This inspired Akunin to create a detective novel which nobody would be ashamed to be caught reading, something between the literature of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky and the pulp of modern Russian detective novels.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist

* The Possessed ( novel ), an 1872 novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky

Since the Russian Romantic era and the corpus of work of the great Russian authors ( from Gogol to Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky ), the relationship between words in these pairs has become traditional.

Platonov's writing, it has also been argued, has strong ties to the works of earlier Russian authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky.

In 1893, shortly after a visit to Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Yasnaya Polyana where she met Leo Tolstoy, she was inspired to start translating Russian literature, which became her life's passion and resulted in English-language versions of dozens of volumes by Tolstoy, Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, Ostrovsky and Chekhov.