Russian Literature Trivia Questions
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This author of "War and Peace" is considered one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Difficulty: Easy- Leo Tolstoy
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anton Chekhov
- Alexander Pushkin
This theatrical innovator, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, developed a famous "system" for actors to achieve emotional truth.
Difficulty: Medium- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Vsevolod Meyerhold
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
- Yevgeny Vakhtangov
This Bakhtin concept describes the specific configuration of time and space in narrative genres, like the "road" in picaresque novels.
Difficulty: Hard- Heteroglossia
- Chronotope
- Dialogism
- Carnival
This novel by Dostoevsky follows the mental anguish of a murderer named Raskolnikov.
Difficulty: Easy- The Brothers Karamazov
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- Notes from Underground
In "Anna Karenina," this principled landowner, based partly on Tolstoy himself, struggles to find meaning through farming and family.
Difficulty: Medium- Stiva Oblonsky
- Alexei Karenin
- Konstantin Levin
- Count Vronsky
This Gogol collection of Ukrainian folk tales, his literary debut, includes "The Night Before Christmas" and "A Terrible Vengeance."
Difficulty: Hard- Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
- Mirgorod
- Arabesques
- Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends
Often called the father of Russian literature, this poet wrote "Eugene Onegin."
Difficulty: Easy- Mikhail Lermontov
- Nikolai Gogol
- Alexander Pushkin
- Ivan Turgenev
This 1987 novel by Chinghiz Aitmatov features an executioner's block and spans from early Christianity to Soviet nuclear testing.
Difficulty: Medium- Jamilia
- The Place of the Skull
- The White Ship
- A Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
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