Who do you think the best Russian writer?

Pushkin, stabbing Dostovsky in the back while he is not looking... and Tolstoy looking enviously onwards.

seriously Dostovsky is good, the brothers(...) is an amazing book and so is crime and punshment. But pushkin with the queen of spades, wins it all with grace. A shakespeare of the russians

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960; Russian):

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904; Russian):

The Seagull (1896)

Uncle Vanya (1899-1900)

The Three Sisters (1901)

The Cherry Tree (1904)

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910; Russian):

Anna Karenina (1877)

War and Peace (1869)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ; Russian):

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

The First Circle (1968)

The Cancer Ward (1968)

The Gulag Archipelago (3 Volumes; 1973 - 1978)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881; Russian):

The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Crime and Punishment (1866)

The Idiot (1869)

The question is too wide-open. Which century? It's critical...

Also, Russia is a large nation and it's hard to name _one_ "best writer" - can you name _one_ "best US author"??? If you do it would be too subjective - just your own opinion...

Too large nations - it's not like "name the best author in Albania" :)

So

1) Question is not specific - century/time was not specified (in 21st century we have other "best writers" than in 19th century - surprised?)

2) Question should be about _several_ and not _one_ - there is no answer to 'One'

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By the way, if we are talking about 19th century, from the Russian population point of view (and majority I can say) Dostoevsky (whom people _outside_ of Russia admire - we know that) is considered MUCH less popular (and far from "the best") than Tolstoy or Chekhov.

So in 19th century 'the best' list should start from Tolstoy and Chekhov

Same thing with Solzhenitsyn - whom people outside Russian like - we know that but:

yes, he was brave to write about Stalin's time horrors, BUT it does no make him a "good writer" at all - and obviously not "best writer"

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The Big D all the way. Is Tolstoy bad? No. Nabokov? No. But comparing them to Dostoevsky is like comparing beer to fine cognac, even if it's the best micro-brewed beer in the world, it just can't compare.

Pushkin's writing is absolutely beautiful.

I love Nicolai Gogol's short stories. They're great stories and make wonderful book reports.

"The Nose" - is about a baker who finds a human nose in his bread - he tries to get rid of it. Read it here:

http://h42day.100megsfree5.com/texts/russia/gogol/...

You can read "The Overcoat" here:

http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/gogolo...

Fyodor Dostoevsky with Tolstoy coming in a distant second....

Boris Pasternak? Anyway, the guy who wrote, "Dr. Zhivago."

Here's more info on Russian literature and authors:

http://learning.lib.vt.edu/slav/lit_authors_russia...

Nabokov. Amazing stuff.

I have only ever read "War and Peace" and "Lolita"--So...

I guess I would say Nabokov

tolstoy.