Origins of Russian literature ; Curch and the folk in Old Kiev ; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837 ; Exile, rustic seclusion, and Onegin ; December's uprising and two poets meet ; Poet contrasts talent versus mediocrity ; St. Petersburg glorified and death embraced ; Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852 ; Russian grotesque, overcoats to dead souls ; Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 ; Near mortality, prison, and an underground ; Second wife and a great crime novel begins -- Inside the troubled mind of a criminal ; Generation of the Karamazovs ; Novelistic presence of Christ and Satan ; Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 ; Tale of two cities and a country home ; Family life meets military life ; Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord ; Family life makes a comeback ; Tolstoy the preacher ; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883 ; Stresses between two generations ; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904 -- M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936 ; Literature and revolution ; Tribune -- Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930 ; Revolution makes a u-turn ; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984 ; Revolutions and civil war ; Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958 ; Among the godless -- religion and family life ; Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 ; Poet in and beyond society ; Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born 1918 ; Many colors of Russian literature.
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