O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Alexander Kuprin, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hans Christian Andersen, Leonid Andreev, Maxim Gorky, Nikolay Gogol, Nikolay Leskov, Ernst Hoffman, Arkady Averchenko, Lydia Charskaya, Nikolay Teleshov, Nadezhda Taffy, Arkady Gaidar