Diana and Liza invite you to participate in their quiz

    Dear friends in Argentina!

    We suggest you to take part in our new project. It’s «Russian Celebrities Quiz». You may answer all the questions or only the questions in 1 or 2 parts: Sports, Literature, History, Cinema or Music.

     Please, publish your answers in the blog. We are going to give the names of the winners in the next issue of our journal “polar Lights”.

     Good luck!

     Best wishes from your Russian friends,

     Diana (left) and Liza (right)

Russian Celebrities in Literature

1. She had to go through the tragic events: losing her husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilyov, surviving the arrest and the imprisonment of her only son , Lev Gumilyov. Who is this famous Russian poet?

 

2.The writer, who was at first at the Civil War and then at the Great Patriotic War. This writer lost his mother, who was killed in the bombing, and some friends. Then he wrote the story “The destiny of a man”. In 1965 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Who is this famous writer?

3.This author was born in Moscow in 1873 and died in 1950. He finished high school, then he graduated from the University of Moscow, the Faculty of Law. The most famous works of the writer are "Native", "Pilgrimage", "Summer of the Lord". Who is this famous writer?

4. This is the writer, who wrote the most mystic novel of the twentieth century. The name of this novel is “The Master and Margarita”. Who is this  wonderful writer? 

 

5. Each country has its own folk tales. Russian people have a lot of fairy tales where animals are the main characters. This tale tells us about the girl Masha who visited a very strange house and liked it very much. What is the name of this fairy tale?