<human>:  What is the history of Russian literature?
<bot>: Russian literature began to develop as early as the 10th century with the writing of saints’ lives and narrative by Byzantium authors. In the 18th century, the classicism of Catherine the Great marked the beginning of a period of Russian literature’s Golden Age, when writers such as Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Lermontov and Leo Tolstoy created some of their most important works. Throughout the 19th century, Russian literature continued to make waves both globally and at home, and by the early 20th century, authors such as Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Nabokov had emerged as some of the most influential writers of their time. In the Soviet era, the works of authors such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Yevgeny Yevtushenko were met with both awards and censorship under the Stalinist regime. After the fall of the Soviet Union, authors such as Marina Tsvetaeva and Victor Pelevin continued to find success both in Russia and abroad.