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8212683 No.8212683 [Reply] [Original]

Who are some Russian authors who might be overlooked from the 19th century and prior?

I've covered Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoy, Lermontov, Turgenev.

Wouldn't mind some more recs.

>> No.8212720

Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy and Nikolai Berdyaev are largely overlooked in the west.

>> No.8212722

>>8212683
Leskov

>> No.8212742

>>8212720
>>8212722

Appreciate it guys, look forward to checking them out.

>> No.8212745

>>8212683
The other two Tolstoys

>> No.8214232

bumpity.

>> No.8214723

Goncharov
Saltykov-Shchedrin
Chekhov

>> No.8214849

>>8212683
Bunin
also DoubleLeskov

>> No.8214860

>>8212683
Symeon of Polotsk is unheard of in west, worth checking out

>> No.8214902

Bulgakov

>> No.8214923

>>8214902
>19th century and prior

>> No.8214926

start with the slavic folk tales

>> No.8214927

>>8212683
this chart senpai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature#Golden_Age

>> No.8214928

>>8214923
fair enough, he was born in 1891 so I thought it might count

>> No.8214932

>>8212683
I did a lot of in-depth research for you; here are the results of my studies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature#18th_century