Maria Kirilenko

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"What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen."

Nikolai Gogol, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

"We old-fashioned people think that without principles, taken as you say on faith, one can’t take a step or even breathe."

Ivan Turgenev, Fathers & Sons

Anna Kournikova

"Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!"

Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!

Olga Poutchkova

Collection of covers of foreign editions of “Crime and Punishment”

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Vera Zvonareva

Elena Vesnina & Maria Sharapova

"Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers — such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers’ Congress (16 May 1967)

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Olga Poutchkova