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I read Russian literature a lot. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much. -- Vladimir Putin
We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. -- D. H. Lawrence
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. -- Joseph Brodsky
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera. -- Joseph Brodsky
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent. -- Kate Beckinsale
Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me. -- Irina Ratushinskaya
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. -- Joshua Cohen
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature. -- Vladimir Putin
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. -- Helen Dunmore
The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature. -- Sue Townsend
I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death. -- Anthony Marra
Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children used to know his poems by heart, but only since glasnost have American editors shown any interest in issuing his poems here. -- Michael Patrick Hearn
I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response. -- Patch Adams
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature. -- Sue Townsend

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