id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6675 Russian literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 7424 758 61 The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered (1932–1934) has been among the most successful works of Russian literature,[citation needed] with tens of millions of copies printed in many languages around the world. Some 1930s writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), author of The Master and Margarita (written 1928–1940, published 1966), and Nobel Prize-winning Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) with his novel Doctor Zhivago (written 1945–1955, published 1957) continued the classical tradition of Russian literature with little or no hope of being published. A number of prominent Russian authors such as novelists Mikhail Shishkin, Rubén Gallego, Julia Kissina, Svetlana Martynchik and Dina Rubina, poets Alexei Tsvetkov and Bakhyt Kenjeev, though born in USSR, live and work in West Europe, North America or Israel.[28][page needed] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6675.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6675.txt