Books
Across
- 1. The poet Esenin was married to which famous dancer?(her surname)
- 2. Which literary work was the first of Dostoyevsky's to make it big?
- 3. Which poet hung him or her self after returning to the Soviet Union from abroad in 1941?
- 5. This poet was one of a very few to survive Stalin's terror and whose most famous work is "Poem Without A Hero".
- 6. Which philosophy does Bazarov, the central character of Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, subscribe to?
- 8. This poet and prose writer is known as Russia's national poet.
Down
- 1. which writer spent time in a Siberian prison in the 19th century?
- 3. How many brothers are there for certain in "The Brother's Karamazov"?
- 4. What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?
- 7. Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?
- 9. Who was the important 18th century prose writer that devoted over twenty years to writing his "History Of The Russian State"