Moscow - Москва - 15 барельефы русских писателей в РГБ

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	XII. В ШОТА РУСТАВЕЛИ - XIII в	Shota Rustaveli (Georgian: შოთა რუსთაველი) (1172–1216), Georgian poet of the 12th century (Wikipedia).
	1799 - А.С. ПУШКИН - 1837	Александр Сергеевич Пушкин - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Moscow 1799 - Saint-Petersburg 1827), Russian author and poet (Wikipedia).
	1814 - М.Ю. ЛЕРМОНТОВ - 1841	Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов - Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (Moscow 1814 - Pyatigorsk 1841), Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter (Wikipedia).
	1809 - Н.В. ГОГОЛБ - 1852	Николай Васильевич Гоголь - Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol' (Sorochyntsi 1809 - Moscow 1852), Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist (Wikipedia).
	1811 - В.Г. БЕЛИНСКИЙ - 1848	Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский - Vissarion Grigor'yevich Belinskiy (Sveaborg 1811 - St. Petersburg 1848), Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency (Wikipedia).
	1812 - А.И. ГЕРЦЕН - 1870	Александр Иванович Герцен - Aleksander Ivanovich Gertsen (Alexander Herzen) (Moscow 1812 - Paris 1870), Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" (Wikipedia).
	1814 - Т.Г. ШЕВЧЕНКО - 1861	Тарас Григорьевич Шевченко - Taras Grigor'yevich Shevchenko (Morintsy 1814 - St. Petersburg 1861), Ukrainian poet, artist and humanist (Wikipedia).
	1821 - Н.А. НЕКРАСОВ - 1877	Николай Алексеевич Некрасов - Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov (Nemirov 1821 - St. Petersburg 1877), Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher (Wikipedia).
	1828 - Н.Г. ЧЕРНЫШЕВСКИЙ - 1899	Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский - Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevskiy (Saratov 1828 - Saratov 1899), Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist (Wikipedia).
	1836 - Н.А. ДОБРОЛЮБОВ - 1861	Николай Александрович Добролюбов - Nikolay Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov (Nizhniy Novgorod 1836 - St. Petersburg 1861), Russian literary critic, journalist, poet and revolutionary democrat (Wikipedia).
	1820 - М.Е. САЛТЫКОВ-ЩЕДРИН - 1889	Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин - Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (Spas-Ugol, Tverskaya oblast 1826 - St. Petersburg 1889), Russian satirist (Wikipedia).
	1818 - И.С. ТУРГЕНЕВ - 1883	Иван Сергеевич Тургенев - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Orël 1818 - Bougival, France 1883), Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (Wikipedia).
	1828 - Л.Н. ТОЛСТОЙ - 1910	Лев Николаевич Толстой - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Yaznaya Polyana 1828 - Astapovo, Tambovskaya guberniya 1910), Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories (Wikipedia).
	1893 - В.В. МАЯКОВСКИЙ - 1930	Владимир Владимирович Маяковский - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovskiy (Bagdadi, Kitaisskaya guberniya 1893 - Moscow 1930), Soviet Russian poet, publicist and playwright (Wikipedia).
	1868 - А.М. ГОРЬКИЙ - 1936	Алексей Максимович Пешков (Максим Горький) - Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maksim Gor'kiy (Nizhniy Novgorod 1868 - Gorki 1930), Soviet Russian author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist (Wikipedia).