November 9

International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism

The International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism is an annual commemoration of the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom that occurred on the November 9th, 1938.

Birthdays

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 – 1883) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short-story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches(1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov (1885 – 1922), was a poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it