11.   Kozirovskaya, who once taught Russian literature in Kiev but now is battling cancer, said she began to cry.

12.   Lovers of Chekhov, or of Russian literature, will certainly want to have this volume.

13.   Many of the letters focus on Russian literature and the Russian language, with Nabokov instructing Wilson on the infinite gradations of Russian that no translation can capture.

14.   Meanwhile, in this time of transition, Russian literature teems with as much freedom, boisterousness, uncertainty and dread as Russia itself.

15.   Now, he sometimes reads Russian literature in his free time.

16.   Such feelings can be tracked thoughout Russian literature.

17.   The most beloved heroine of Russian literature, Natasha Rostova, was feeling sexy.

18.   The paradoxical life of the father of Russian literature is explored in this biography, published to coincide with the bicentennial of his birth.

19.   The student was told there was no point in studying in the United States since there was plenty of Russian literature at home.

20.   The University of Southern California fought hard to overturn the denial of a visa for a promising student it had recruited for its graduate program in Russian literature.