Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 61 Akhmatova 60 Boris Pasternak 59 Sholem Aleichem 59 Czeslaw Milosz 59 Maxim Gorky 58 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 58 Isaac Bashevis Singer 57 Yevtushenko 57 Sholom Aleichem 57 Aksyonov 57 philologist 56 poet Alexander Pushkin 56 Alexander Pushkin 56 Heinrich Heine 56 poet essayist 55 Mikhail Bulgakov 55 Russian émigré 55 Nemirovsky 54 Feodor 54 Némirovsky 54 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 54 Beryl Bainbridge 54 Turgenev 54 Bulgakov 54 Hermann Hesse 53 Gary Shteyngart 53 cellist Mstislav Rostropovich 53 Vilna 53 Günter Grass 53 Ba Jin 53 Martin Buber 52 Grace Paley 52 Andrei Codrescu 52 Malcolm Muggeridge 52 Kertész 52 composer Igor Stravinsky 52 WG Sebald 52 Bely 52 poet WH Auden 52 Romantic poets 52 Mayakovsky 52 Stephen Spender 51 Elizaveta 51 Gustave Flaubert 51 Symbolist 51 Marguerite Duras 51 Vladimir Nabokov 51 Charles Baudelaire 51 Pushkin 51 Lionel Trilling 51 John Dos Passos 51 Dostoyevsky 51 Today Birthdays Author 51 playwright novelist 51 composer Leonard Bernstein 51 VI Lenin 51 Italo Calvino 50 Arthur Koestler 50 Fyodor 50 Stanley Kunitz 50 Milan Kundera 50 Fyodor Dostoevsky 50 Percy Bysshe Shelley 50 Platonov 50 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 50 Mahmoud Darwish 50 Dostoevsky 50 Cavafy 50 Mstislav Rostropovich 50 Stalinist purges 49 poems 49 Volodya 49 Rainer Maria Rilke 49 Lotte Lenya 49 Shishkin 49 novelist screenwriter 49 Humboldt Gift 49 EE Cummings 49 Robert Benchley 49 Tolstoy 49 Milton Babbitt 49 Madeleine L' Engle 49 Shulamit 49 Codrescu 49 Shteyngart 49 Vita Sackville West 49 composer Aaron Copland 49 Gorky 49 Clara Schumann 49 literary luminaries 48 Solzhenitsyn 48 memorialised 48 Roland Barthes 48 Bezmozgis 48 Baal Shem Tov 48 Agnon 48 Taras Shevchenko 48 Milosz 48 Galya 48 Lu Xun 48 Roberto Bolaño