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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned,…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Amor Towles

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'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

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through…

— Mel Brooks

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of…

— Ayn Rand

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

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

— Elif Batuman