novel ''dead souls'' nikolai gogol realistic school fiction said begun ivan goncharov mainly remembered novel ''oblomov'' ivan turgenev fyodor dostoyevsky leo tolstoy soon became internationally renowned point many scholars f r leavis described one greatest novelist ever mikhail saltykov shchedrin known grotesque satire novel ''the golovlyov family'' considered ''magnum opus'' nikolai leskov best remembered shorter fiction unique ' 'skaz'' techniques late
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