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
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| 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
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| He influenced Gandhi. Admired the simplicity of peasants. | Leo Tolstoy
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| Tsar Nicholas I said he would be his personal censor | Aleksandr Pushkin
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| Longtime love for an opera singer | Ivan Turgenev
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| 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
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| Invented the word “nihilist” | Ivan Turgenev
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| His estate was Yasnaya Polyana | Leo Tolstoy
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| 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
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| Was a doctor and writer | Anton Chekhov
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| 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
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| Imprisoned for 8 years for writing a letter criticizing Stalin | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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| The preeminent spokesman for culture under the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin; formulated the central principles of Socialist Realism | Maxim Gorky
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958but was forced to decline the honor | Boris Pasternak
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| His father was murdered by a Russian anti-monarchist | Vladimir Nabokov
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| 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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