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Outstanding people of Russia
Alexander Pushkin
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Great Russian poet and writer, founder of the modern literary Russian language
golden age of literature
Operas, ballets, choirs, oratorios, cantatas, symphonic and chamber instrumental works, romances, music for dramatic performances, films, television and radio programs have been written based on Pushkin’s works.
Fedor Dostoevsky
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One of the most famous Russian writers and one of the most widely read novelists.
universally recognized literary classic.
The writer’s work had a huge influence on all world literature, on the creation of musical opuses, opera, theater and ballet productions based on his works
Nikolay Nekrasov
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He is a famous Russian poet, writer and publicist. His works have become classics of Russian literature.
He was one of the first poets who began to pay great attention to peasant life.
Lev Tolstoy
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one of the most famous writers and philosophers in the world.
The writer's literary heritage amounted to 90 volumes of fiction and journalistic works, diary notes and letters, and he himself was more than once nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ivan Krylov
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Russian publicist, fabulist, poet, publisher of satirical and educational magazines.
He is best known as the author of 236 fables, collected in nine lifetime collections.
Musical works, theatrical productions, satirical films and children's cartoons have been written based on his works.
Nikolay Gogol
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Russian prose writer, playwright, poet, critic, publicist, recognized as one of the classics of Russian literature.
He worked masterfully in a variety of genres.
Fedor Chaliapin
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Russian opera and chamber singer (high bass), at various times a soloist of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters, as well as the Metropolitan Opera, the first People's Artist of the Republic, artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater.
At different times he was engaged in painting, graphics, sculpture and acted in films. He had a great influence on world opera.
He gained a reputation as an artist who combined in his work “innate musicality, bright vocal abilities, and extraordinary acting skills.”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Russian composer, teacher, conductor and music critic.
Tchaikovsky's legacy is represented in different genres: ten operas, three ballets, seven symphonies, 104 romances, a number of program symphonic works, concerts and chamber instrumental ensembles, choral works, cantatas, piano miniatures and piano cycles.
Valentin Serov
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He is a famous Russian portrait painter and one of the largest masters who worked in the 19th century.
In addition to achievements in portrait painting, he managed to leave a huge number of equally significant works in such genres as: ancient and historical painting, animal painting, book illustrations and Russian landscape.
Vladimir Lenin
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Russian revolutionary, major theorist of Marxism, Soviet politician and statesman, founder of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks), main organizer and leader of the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 in Russia, first chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (government) of the RSFSR, creator of the first in the world history of the socialist state.
He was one of the most prominent political leaders in the entire history of Russia, he was also known as the author of many theoretical works on politics and social sciences, the founder of the theory of Marxism-Leninism and the creator and main ideologist of the Third International.