Reeve, Franklin: - Franklin Reeve (1928-2013) was an American academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor. He taught Russian language and literature at Columbia University before becoming chairman of the Russian Department at Wesleyan. Reeve was the founding editor of Poetry Review and the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and translation.

Pavel Uspenskij, Alexey Vdovin and: - Alexey Vdovin is Associate Professor of Russian at HSE University and the author of articles and books on the history of Russian Literature in the age of Realism. Pavel Uspenskij is Associate Professor at HSE University; his research interests include nineteenth-century Russian literature, the poetics of Russian modernism and Soviet Culture.

Turgenev, Ivan: - Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, and translator. He ranks as one of the major figures of nineteenth-century Russian literature.