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Russian literature
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Date: 20050101
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Russian literature
Literary works of Russia until 1917, then of the Soviet Union until 1991. Thereafter the literature properly belongs to the individual republics. Russian literature has its origins in religious works dating from c. ad 1000. They include biographies of saints, chronicles, hymns and sermons. After the 1600s, Western influences are found. Romanticism beginning in the late 1700s – dominated by Nikolai Karamzin ( Letters of a Russian Traveller , 1790) and Alexander Pushkin ( Boris Godunov , 1825) – gave way to the realism of Leo Tolstoy ( War and Peace , ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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