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I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

— Elif Batuman

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

— Robert Bringhurst

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

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

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

— Jamie Hince

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is…

— Andre Leon Talley

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

— Anonymous

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

— Amor Towles

I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really…

— Tuppence Middleton

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really…

— Clive James