Russian literature: A New Year quiz

As the weekend of the Old Russian New Year approaches, it's a good moment to check how much Russian literature you know

Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow

The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow. Photograph: Barry Lewis/Corbis

  1. 1. In the Russian fairytale, Vasilisa the Beautiful, the girl Vasilisa goes to the hut of Baba Yaga. What does the hut stand on?

  2. 2. In Boris Pasternak’s novel, Doctor Zhivago, what is his protagonist's first name?

  3. 3. The Lady with the Dog, by Chekhov, was written in the same place that the characters engaged in their affair. Where was this?

  4. 4. Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate was adapted by BBC Radio 4 in September last year. Who voiced the character of Viktor?

  5. 5. Which famous Russian author had synesthesia, a neurological condition involving the blending of the senses?

  6. 6. Mikhail Artsybashev’s Sanin is said to be “pornography with ideas". Which of these events does not occur in the novel?

  7. 7. Which Russian writer won the Nobel prize for literature in 1987?

  8. 8. We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is set in a dystopian future. The main character D-503 is working on a spaceship called Intergral. What is the name of D-503’s girlfriend?

  9. 9. The Scarlet Flower by Sergey Aksakov is an adaptation of which fairytale?

  10. 10. A character from Tolstoy's War and Peace provided which title for a cultural history of Russia

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