The Golden Age

The period when Russian literature found its own voice. Pushkin shaped the modern literary language, Gogol combined laughter with deep concern for people, and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Chekhov made Russian prose part of world culture.

Authors

• Alexander Pushkin

  1799–1837 · Works: 1

• Nikolai Gogol

  1809–1852 · Works: 1

• Ivan Turgenev

  1818–1883 · Works: 1

• Leo Tolstoy

  1828–1910 · Works: 1

• Anton Chekhov

  1860–1904 · Works: 1