Russian Writers

Question of

Under heavy political pressure, who turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Boris Pasternak
Mikhail Sholokhov

Question of

Who described writing poetry as, ‘like ploughing and dancing at the same time’?

Aleksandr Pushkin
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy

Question of

Which Tolstoy novel recounts a nobleman serving on a jury trying the woman whom he had made dishonourable?

Anna Karenina
Hadji Murat
Resurrection

Question of

Name Tolstoy’s granddaughter, famous for her post-apocalyptic tale The Slynx?

Roxana Tolstya
Sophia Tolstya
Tatiana Tolstya

Question of

Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov is the mother of which Karamazov brother?

Alexei
Dimitri
Ivan

Question of

The Strugatsky Brothers (Arkady & Boris) are associated with which literary genre?

Political Satire
Romance
Science Fiction

Question of

Maxim Gorky wrote of how many men and a girl?

Two
Thirteen
Twenty-six

Question of

Whose ‘brocades’ did Gorky praise, before quarrelling with him over the merits of Bolshevism?

Alexander Blok
Isaac Babel
Ivan Bunin

Question of

The assassinated journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, is widely believed to have been murdered due to her reports on which hotspot?

Chechnya
Crimea
Transnistria

Question of

Though much of this writer’s work was personally censored by Stalin, the tyrant was also a great aficionado of the play The Day of the Turbins; who is the playwright in question?

Anna Akhmatova
Mikhail Bulgakov
Marina Tsvetaeva

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Russian Writers

Under heavy political pressure, who turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Who described writing poetry as, ‘like ploughing and dancing at the same time’?

Which Tolstoy novel recounts a nobleman serving on a jury trying the woman whom he had made dishonourable?

Name Tolstoy’s granddaughter, famous for her post-apocalyptic tale The Slynx?

Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov is the mother of which Karamazov brother?

The Strugatsky Brothers (Arkady & Boris) are associated with which literary genre?

Maxim Gorky wrote of how many men and a girl?

Whose ‘brocades’ did Gorky praise, before quarrelling with him over the merits of Bolshevism?

The assassinated journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, is widely believed to have been murdered due to her reports on which hotspot?

Though much of this writer’s work was personally censored by Stalin, the tyrant was also a great aficionado of the play The Day of the Turbins; who is the playwright in question?

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Public House Quiz

Under heavy political pressure, who turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Who described writing poetry as, ‘like ploughing and dancing at the same time’?

Which Tolstoy novel recounts a nobleman serving on a jury trying the woman whom he had made dishonourable?

Name Tolstoy’s granddaughter, famous for her post-apocalyptic tale The Slynx?

Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov is the mother of which Karamazov brother?

The Strugatsky Brothers (Arkady & Boris) are associated with which literary genre?

Maxim Gorky wrote of how many men and a girl?

Whose ‘brocades’ did Gorky praise, before quarrelling with him over the merits of Bolshevism?

The assassinated journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, is widely believed to have been murdered due to her reports on which hotspot?

Though much of this writer’s work was personally censored by Stalin, the tyrant was also a great aficionado of the play The Day of the Turbins; who is the playwright in question?

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