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A primary school literature teacher was forced to resign after using Russian classics to teach students about war. 

How a woman from Kiev became a symbol of emancipation for her generation.

Florence, Italy, is joining in on the Dostoyevsky anniversary fun.

In memory of actor Christopher Plummer, who died last week at age 91, we look back at his role as a dying Leo Tolstoy in the 2009 film, The Last Station.

On the 110th anniversary of Lev Tolstoy's death, we look back at his link to cinema: Tolstoy is more closely linked to the history of the cinema than any other writer of his time.

When Tolstoy started Anna Karenina, he was forty-four. He guessed that he would finish the novel, conceived as only a novella, in two weeks. Anna Karenina took him more than four years.

We asked our editors, advisors, and frequent contributors to share a Russian literary work they felt was particularly apt to read during The Great Pause.

Russian literature is rich with experiences of isolation. We check in with a few famous writers of the past.