Character Quote by Alexander Weinstein

While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy,…

— Alexander Weinstein

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic,…

— Richard Elman

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think…

— Gary Shteyngart

I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.

— Miranda Otto

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

— Denise Mina

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

— Amor Towles

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that lend themselves…

— Leigh Bardugo

“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov,…

— Mirra Ginsburg

“I know very well you can't help me," he said. "But I tell you, because unsuccessful and superfluous people like me find their salvation…

— Anton Chekhov