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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20041008
Author:John Freedman
John Freedman
The Moscow Times (Russia)
10-08-2004
URL: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
Andrei Myagkov (center) plays a family patriarch in "The Bourgeoisie,"
a social drama by soviet writer Maxim Gorky
There are classics and there are classics. Some writers enter the
canon straight off and rarely again is there doubt as to whether they belong
among the greats. Nikolai Gogol -- author of some of Russian literature's
greatest novels, plays and stories -- would be one of those. Others either
have to fight their way into the number of gods or struggle to stay there
once admitted. Maxim Gorky -- hugely ...
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