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1812–1891 Russia

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (18 June 1812—27 September 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his critical realism novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869).

Russia
Essayists
Journalists
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: Goncharov, Oblomov

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To this day the Russian, though surrounded by a stern, unimaginative world of reality, loves to believe the seductive tales of antiquity. And long will it be before he will have been weaned from that belief.

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