Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
 The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed.
 By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama.
 Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore.
 Prose was flourishing as well.
 The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol.
 Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels.
 Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned.
 In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist.
 The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry.
 The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak.
 This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к ; ] ; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1880 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet.
Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.
Gun-Brit Barkmin is a German opera singer and concert soloist in the vocal range soprano who has garnered generally positive reviews for her performances in leading roles in operas by Janáček, Britten, Berg, Wagner and Richard Strauss, although (writing in "The New Yorker") Alex Ross felt that she "showed strain" in her role as Salome.
 In contrast, Anthony Tommasini of the "New York Times" found she sang the role with "searing power and unflagging intensity."
 James Leonard comments that her collaboration with Zürcher Klaviertrio to record "Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok" by Shostakovich added "human tenderness."
Avril Pyman (aka Dr Avril Sokolov, FBA) (born 4 May 1930) is a British scholar and translator of Russian literature.
 In addition to translating poetry and children's literature, she has written a study of Russian symbolism as well as biographies of Alexander Blok and Pavel Florensky.
Children of God is the second book, and the second science fiction novel, written by author Mary Doria Russell.
 It is the sequel to the award-winning novel, "The Sparrow".
Father Sergei Mikhailovich Solovyov (October 25, 1885 in Moscow, Russian Empire – March 2, 1942 in Kazan, USSR) was a Russian poet, religious philosopher and an Orthodox (later Greek Catholic) priest.
 Solovyov was a grandson of the historian Sergey Solovyov, a nephew of the poet and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, second cousin of Alexander Blok, and a friend of Andrei Bely.
Above the Lake (Russian: Надъ озеромъ , translit.
 "Nad ozerom") is a black-and-white 1995 cinema of the Russia idependent film directed by Dmitrii Frolov.
 It is based on Alexander Blok novel "Nad ozerom".
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok (Op. 127) is a vocal-instrumental suite by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
 It was inspired by verses of poet Alexander Blok (1880–1921).
The Sparrow (1996) is the first novel by author Mary Doria Russell.

Question: Are Mary Doria Russell and Alexander Blok both novelists?
Answer: no