The World Writers Day is celebrated on March 3. It was established by the International Congress of PEN Club. The International PEN Club is a worldwide association of writers founded in London in 1921. The name for the organization was created from the first letters of the words “Poets, Essayists and Novelists.” Greatest Russian writers - in photo gallery by TASS
Greatest Russian writers in life and at work
The World Writers Day is celebrated on March 3
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Russian writer Anton Chekhov (center) and actors of the Moscow Art Theatre, 1899. Chekhov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history
© Fotokhronika TASS Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877)
© Fotokhronika TASS Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) in Crimea, 1901
© Fotokhronika TASS Russian short-story writer and novelist Maksim Gorky (1868-1936) on the island of Capri, 1907. The Lower Depths is perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play
© Fotokhronika TASS Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), second right) at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, 1933. He is best known for his short novels The Village (1910) and Dry Valley (1912)
© Fotokhronika TASS Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature, 1861
© Fotokhronika TASS Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) with his wife and son. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel
© Fotokhronika TASS Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, on the balcony of his apartment in Moscow, 1935
© Fotokhronika TASS/Alexey Antonov Russian writer, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) in Peredelkino, 1958
© Fotokhronika TASS Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of an epic novel And Quiet Flows the Don
© Fotokhronika TASS/Y. Ryumkin Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, The First Circle, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature
© Fotokhronika TASS/Vladimir Tarabashchuk