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Fedor Dostoevsky

Name at birth: Fedor Mikhailovich DostoevskyFedor Dostoevksy (also spelled Fydor, Fyodor or Feodor Dostoyevsky) is the 19th century Russian author who wrote the classic novels Crime and Punishment (…

Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich

(Encyclopedia) Tolstoy, Aleksey KonstantinovichTolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovichtŏlˈstoi, Rus. əlyĭksyāˈ kənstəntyēˈnəvĭch təlstoiˈ [key], 1817–75, Russian poet, dramatist, and novelist. He was a…

Moscow Art Theater

(Encyclopedia) Moscow Art Theater, Russian repertory company founded in 1897 by Constantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Its work created new concepts of theatrical production and…

Moore, George

(Encyclopedia) Moore, George, 1852–1933, English author, b. Ireland. As a young man he lived in Paris, studying at various art schools. Inspired by Zola, Flaubert, Turgenev, and the 19th-century…

Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia) Dostoyevsky or Dostoevsky, Feodor MikhailovichDostoyevsky or Dostoevsky, Feodor Mikhailovichfyôˈdər mēkhīˈləvĭch dəstəyĕfˈskē, 1821–81, Russian novelist, one of the towering figures of…

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov are the title characters in Fedor Dostoyevsky's last and longest novel. It is by turns a family drama, love rivalry, murder mystery, legal thriller and character study of 19th-…

Pawel Pawlikowski

Director Pawel Pawilkowski won an Oscar in 2015 for his foreign language film Ida, and was nominated again for Cold War, his 2018 love story. Polish-born but based in England, Pawilkowski got his…

Steiner, George

(Encyclopedia) Steiner, George, 1929–2020, American critic, essayist, novelist, and educator, b. Paris, France, immigrated to the United States 1940, became a U.S. citizen 1944; Ph.D. Oxford, 195).…

1956 Men's Olympic Weightlifting Medalists

Class     Bantamweight (-123 1/2 lb) Charles Vinci, USA 342.5   Vladimir Stogov, URS 337.5   Mahmoud Namdjou, IRN 332.5 Featherweight (-132 1/4 lb) Isaac Berger,…

Top 100 Works in World Literature

Source: Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2002. The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54…