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May 20, 2024 · Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels and stories about the Cossacks of southern Russia. After joining the Red Army in 1920 and spending two years in Moscow, he returned in 1924 to his native Cossack village in the Don.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) was one of the most significant figures in the official Soviet literature. His main socrealist work is Virgin Soil Upturned (1935), a novel in which Sholokhov glorifies the collectivization.
3 days ago · The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death on March 10, 1940, by his widow Elena ...
- Michail Bulgakov, Thomas Reschke
- 1966
May 27, 2024 · 'Compared to his contemporaries, among whom were: Mikhail Bulgakov; Mikhail Sholokhov; John Steinbeck; Ernest Hemingway; and others, Vladimir Nabokov’s literary legacy is vast. He produced 16 novels, short stories, novellas, autobiography " Other Shores " — about 20 full-length books in total.
May 25, 2024 · The Master and Margarita, novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1928–40 and published in a censored form in the Soviet Union in 1966–67. The unexpurgated version was published there in 1973.
3 days ago · Dmitri Shostakovich. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich [n 1] (25 September [ O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist [1] who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet ...
May 22, 2024 · Inspired by the tales of the Russian Cossack cavalry depicted in Mikhail Sholokhov's epic novel And Quiet Flows the Don, Qiao Youlin grew up wanting to be soldier fighting for a noble cause. Today, Qiao is widely considered a hero in his field, though he wields not rifles or pistols, but test tubes and petri dishes.
