Russian Literature has long been one of the richest and most interesting branches of the literary tree, and has been supplying the world with incredible, fantastic novels for two centuries now. Test your knowledge of the best of Russian Books and Authors with our Great Russian Literature Quiz.
The Great Russian Literature Quiz
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#1. Which Russian Classic was originally titled The Wanderings of Chichikov?
Unlucky! Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol features the travels of Chichikov
#2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, was published in which European country due to it being banned in the USSR?
Unlucky! It was published in Italy in 1957, after being smuggled out of the USSR.
#3. Famous playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov was a ....... by profession?
Unlucky! He was a doctor. “Medicine is my lawful wife”, he once said, “and literature is my mistress.”
#4. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is set in which Russian city?
Unlucky! It was set in St Peterburg
#5. Who wrote the Dystopian Classic novel We?
Unlucky! We was written in 1921 by Yevgeny Zamyatin
#6. Mikhail Lermontov wrote Death of a Poet about which famous Russian literary figure?
Unlucky! It was written about the death of Alexander Pushkin
#7. In The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, who was the Master?
Unlucky! The Master was an author and Margarita was his lover.
#8. What was Vladimir Nabokov's pen name, used while he wrote in Russian?
Unlucky! Vladimir Sirin was the name he used
#9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is set during which war?
Unlucky! It was set during the Napoleonic wars
#10. Published in 1859, who wrote the novel Oblomov?
Unlucky! It was written by Ivan Goncharov
Great Russian Books In the Quiz
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