Great Russian Writers

Name: S01:E06 - Anton Chekhov
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 26 min 41 s
Cast: Anton Chekhov

Season 1 Episode 6 - Anton Chekhov

1994 · 27 min

TV-PG

Critics consider Chekhov the master of short story, using themes relating to the everyday, Chekhov portrayed life in Russia before the Revolution.

Directed by:Various

Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of Russia's most gifted writers, was the leading poet of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet Period.

Gorky, novelist and playwright was the founder of Socialist Realism, he was also a prominent figure in the Russian Revolution.

Leo Tolstoy, novelist and moral thinker, was one of the great writers of realistic fiction.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of the greatest novelists of all time. His fiction has had a profound influence on the modern intellectual climate.

Boris Pasternak, Soviet poet and Nobel Prize winning author was one of the foremost literary figures in the USSR.

Critics consider Chekhov the master of short story, using themes relating to the everyday, Chekhov portrayed life in Russia before the Revolution.

Alexander Pushkin, poet and author, founded the literature of the Russian language with epic and lyric poems, plays, novels, and short stories.

Alexander Blok, poet and dramatist, was the greatest of the Russian Symbolists, he began writing poetry at the age of five.

S01:E06 - Anton Chekhov

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