The 19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Era" of Russian literature. Blok and Briusov, Gumilev and Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Mayakovsky, Esenin and Gorky, Bunin and Kuprin are the most prominent representatives of silver age literature. Space opera was less developed, since both state censors and serious writers watched it unfavorably. His works, such as "Ode to the Revolution" and "Left March" (both 1918), brought innovations to poetry. This Time of Troubles became the topic of a number of historical or memoiristic works, … [11], In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. Want to know more about Russian literature and history, make new friends, and have a great time with friendly and like-minded people? "Adult" poets, such as Mayakovsky and Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009), contributed to the genre as well. Fonvizin felt the nobility should be held to the standards they were under the reign of Peter the Great, during which the quality of devotion to the state was rewarded. Any sort of fiction that dealt with the occult, either horror, adult-oriented fantasy or magic realism, was unwelcome in Soviet Russia. Hagiographies (Russian: жития святых, zhitiya svyatykh, "lives of the saints") formed a popular genre of the Old Russian literature. A leading Russian literary critic of the 20th century Viktor Shklovsky, in his book, Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, wrote, "Russian literature has a bad tradition. Russian literature started to be brought to Korea in the late 1900s with Tolstoy, as discussed in Chapter 1, and its Korean translation was reaching a dynamic peak by the 1920s. Toward the end of this period, Nikolai Karamzin also established Sentimentalism in poetry and prose. Like his colleagues and counterparts, Sumarokov extolled the legacy of Peter I, writing in his manifesto Epistle on Poetry, “The great Peter hurls his thunder from the Baltic shores, the Russian sword glitters in all corners of the universe”. Alexander Volkov (1891–1977) introduced fantasy fiction to Soviet children with his loose translation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published as The Wizard of the Emerald City in 1939, and then wrote a series of five sequels, unrelated to Baum. Before the adoption of Christianity – first by Princess Olga in 957 and then by the Great Prince Vladimir in 988 – there was no written language in Russia. Russian literature, the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century. The 18th century was the Golden Age for Russian Literature. Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most successful works of Russian literature. Among the founders of Classicism in Russian poetry and prose are Lomonosov, Fonvizin, and Derzhavin, as well as other authors and enlighteners. His novel The Rout (1927) deals with the partisan struggle in Russia's Far East during the Russian Revolution and Civil War of 1917–1922. “Boileau and Sumarokov: The Manifesto of Russian Classicism.”, Soviet literature: problems and people K. Zelinsky, Progress Publishers. Soviet literature refers to the literature of all the Soviet peoples from the fifteen republics of the USSR, written in more than 88 languages, with Russian as the predominant language. His odes were also among the first works to be written in accordance with the natural rhythmic structures of the Russian language. Some renowned contemporary authors writing in Russian have been born and live in Ukraine (Andrey Kurkov, H. L. Oldie, Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko) or Baltic States (Garros and Evdokimov, Max Frei). 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