/lit/ - Literature

For your FYI, here's a list of the Russian authors highlighted during the Sochi closing ceremony. I thought it might be suggestive of who Russians tend to see as the most significant of the nation's authors.

Alexander Pushkin
Lev Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nikolai Gogol
Ivan Turgenev
Anton Chekhov
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Anna Akhmatova
Marina Tsvetaeva
Joseph Brodsky
Mikhail Bulgakov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For what it's worth, the following were also highlighted during the opening ceremony:

Dostoevsky
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Pushkin