My favourites, apart from Dostoyevsky, are Gogol and Gorkiy. Reading Gogol inspired me to move to S:t Petersburg where I spent a few years. Chekov and Tolstoy

My favourites, apart from Dostoyevsky, are Gogol and Gorkiy. Reading Gogol inspired me to move to S:t Petersburg where I spent a few years. Chekov and Tolstoy are of course great, but to me they feel more Western. If someone told you Anna Karenina was written by an English author you might be inclined to believe them, but nobody would believe that about The Nose, Vyj or Crime and Punishment.