Myths about Russia: part three in a series

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The day has come. We got to the third part of the myths about Russia. For several weeks I’ve been studying English literature in the class of Miss Hanlon. I’ve studied it before, but now I began to understand all the multifacetedness of the language and learned many authors. If you would ask me about your literature three weeks ago, first I would say, maybe Mark Twain, Jerome Salinger or Harper Lee. But now I know more and today I want to tell you a few words about Russian literature.

Pushkin

If hearing about Russian literature, most foreigners think of Alexander Pushkin. Moreover, it is considered that all the Russians quote his poems in everyday conversations. No. It’s true that Pushkin is one of our best writers, his poems and stories show all the richness of Russian language but there are a lot of other Russian authors like Lev Tolstoy, Sergey Esenin, Feodor Dostoevsky and others, and others and others. And, speaking about Russian culture in general, it would be wrong not to mention Russian artists. I’m sure, you have seen works of Ivan Aivasovsky, Ilia Repin, Victor Vasnetsov, Karl Brullov, Ivan Shishkin and others. Their paintings are kept in the most famous galleries, such as Museum of Prado in Madrid, Louvre in Paris, Metropolitan Museum in New York or The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. People specially arrive to see them.