Who were some of the Russian iconic poem and book writers?

Question

Russian literature is full of amazing usage of the language. There are a lot of iconic writers who influenced the language, and now their quotes are used all the time. Who were they?

Answer 1

Russian literature is very rich and there are dozens of names of writers who influenced the language. Some of them are: Lomonosov, Fonvizin, Karamzin (18the century); Zukovsky, Griboydov, Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Ostrovsky, Dostoyevsky, L. Tolstoy, Chechov (19 centurry); Pasternak. Gorky, Bunin, Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Chukovsky, Kataev, Kaverin (20 century), and many more.

Answer 2

Some of them were Pushkin, Tolstoy, Esenin, and Dostoevsky