Russian poets
Who is the main Russian poet?
Pushkin
Who is called "the father of Russian literature"?
Alexander Pushkin
Who wrote “Boris Godunov” and the four short
plays known as the “Little Tragedies”?
Alexander Pushkin
Who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art?
Ivan Aivazovsky
Who is best known for his ballet scores?
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Whose most famous work is "Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?”
Nikolai Nekrasov's
Who is the author of "Fathers and Sons"?
Ivan Turgenev
Who is considered the father of modern
Russian realism and a master of social
satire?
Nikolai Gogol
Who is best known for his beautiful portraits, especially his paintings of women and children?
Valentin Serov
Who is best known for orchestral compositions?
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
What Soviet poet is famous for revolutionary spirit and innovative contributions to modern art and literature?
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Who is known for his sharp satirical insights into the socio-political landscape of early 20th-century Russia?
Mikhail Bulgakov
Whose work was influenced by Shakespeare and focused on psychological depth rather than strict
historical accuracy?
Aleksey Tolstoy's
Who was one of the most renowned Russian artists of the 19th century and known for his beautiful and often dramatic realist/impressionist paintings?
Ilya Repin
Whose innovative works significantly shaped 20th-century music?
Igor Stravinsky's
What poet faced censorship and personal tragedies, including the execution of her first husband and the arrests of her son?
Anna Akhmatova
Who translated many works of Russian writers into
French and German?
Ivan Turgenev
Who is known as "the father of Russian drama"?
Alexander Ostrovsky
Who worked in all genres of art, including painting, graphics, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art?
Mikhail Vrubel
Who was a defining 20th-century Russian composer, pianist, and conductor?
Sergey Prokofiev
What poet wrote in both English and Russian and received numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Joseph Brodsky
Who was sentenced to be shot but was reprieved at the last moment and spent four years at hard labour in Siberia?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who was a seminal Russian playwright and founder of socialist realism, renowned for depicting the struggles of the working class and marginalized?
Maxim Gorky
Who has earned a special place in the history of Russian art with his grand historical paintings, as well as exceptional ceremonial and chamber portraits of nobles and eminent cultural figures?
Karl Bryullov
Who is regarded as one of the greatest composers of symphonies in the 20th century?
Dmitri Shostakovich