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Your Cheat Sheet for Russian-Language Nobel Laureates By Katrin Scheib Nov. 3, 2015 Boris Pasternak (L) and Korney Chukovsky on the first Congress of Soviet writers in 1934. [View the story "Your Cheat Sheet for Russian-Language Nobel Laureates" on Storify]