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Identify the following Russian authors

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From noble family. On his mother’s side descended from Peter the Great’s black favorite, Hannibal. Aleksandr Pushkin
His work about life in the countryside said to have inspired Tsar Alexander II's decision to liberate the serfs, but it also got him imprisoned and banished to his estates. Ivan Turgenev
He influenced Gandhi. Admired the simplicity of peasants. Leo Tolstoy
Tsar Nicholas I said he would be his personal censor Aleksandr Pushkin
Longtime love for an opera singer Ivan Turgenev
Married the most beautiful woman in Russia and got jealous and killed in a duel over his wife’s honor with his wife’s brother-in-law, a Frenchman, D'Anthès. Aleksandr Pushkin
Invented the word “nihilist” Ivan Turgenev
His estate was Yasnaya Polyana Leo Tolstoy
Moved to the US, was an expert on butterflies and held an official position at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University Vladimir Nabokov
Was a doctor and writer Anton Chekhov
In his later life, he came under influence of a fanatical priest and burned sequels for his most famous work; as he was dying he refused to take any food - hot loaves applied to his person and leeches attached to his nose. Nikolai Gogol
Imprisoned for 8 years for writing a letter criticizing Stalin Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The preeminent spokesman for culture under the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin; formulated the central principles of Socialist Realism Maxim Gorky
At the end of his life he left his estate to live as a wandering ascetic, and died at a remote railway junction with lots of press attention. Leo Tolstoy
Became a radical socialist, arrested and sentenced to death and reprieved at the last moment and sentenced to four years hard labor in Siberia Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sent to special camp for political prisoners doing manual labor and later sent to a camp that employed mathematicians and scientist in research. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958but was forced to decline the honor Boris Pasternak
His father was murdered by a Russian anti-monarchist Vladimir Nabokov
As a young man became involved with a radical group, the Decembrists, but was fortunately out of town during their failed revolt. Aleksandr Pushkin
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