Mystery-Bouffe (Russian: Мистерия-Буфф ; Misteriya-Buff) is a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921.
 Mayakovsky stated in a preface to the 1921 edition that "in the future, all persons performing, presenting, reading or publishing "Mystery-Bouffe" should change the content, making it contemporary, immediate, up-to-the-minute."
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.
On August 13, 1950 the steamer Mayakovsky (named for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) sank at around 12:00 pm local time due to overloading the vessel with too many people.
 "Mayakovsky" sank in the center of Riga, just 12 to 15 meters (38 to 49 feet) from the present day site of the Stone Bridge.
 A total of 147 people died, including 48 children.
 It was the deadliest peacetime disaster in Soviet Latvian history.
The Lady and the Hooligan (original title: ) is a 1918 Russian silent film co-directed by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Yevgeni Slavinsky.
 The script, written by Mayakovsky, is based on the play "La maestrina degli operai" (The Workers' Young Schoolmistress) by Edmondo De Amicis.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский ; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.
Mayakovsky Theater (Russian: Театр Маяковского; Московский академический театр имени Вл.
 Маяковского ) is a theater in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1920, first as "Terevsat" (Theater of Revolutionary Satire, 1920-1922), then "Revolution Theater" (1922-1943) and "Drama Theater" (1944-1953).
 In 1954 it was renamed after Vladimir Mayakovsky.
On August 13, 1950 the steamer Mayakovsky (named for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) sank at around 12:00pm local time due overloading the vessel with too many people.
 Mayakovsky sank in the center of Riga, just 12–15 meters from the present day site of the Stone Bridge.
 A total of 147 people died, including 48 children.
 It was the deadliest peacetime disaster in Soviet Latvian history.
Tracy Chevalier FRSL (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist.
 She has written eight novels.
 She is best known for her second novel, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
Backbone Flute (Флейта-позвоночник, Fleita-pozvonochnik) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in the autumn of 1915 and first published in December of that year in "Vzyal" (Взял, Took) almanac, heavily censored.
 Its first unabridged version appeared in March 1919, in "Vladimir Mayakovsky's Collected Works 1909-1919".
Vladimir Mayakovsky is a tragedy in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1913, premiered on December 2 of that year and published in 1914 by the "First Futurists' Journal", later to be included into the "Simple as Mooing" collection.
 An avant-garde verse drama, satirizing the urban life and, at the same time, hailing the up-and-coming revolution of the industrial power, it featured a set of bizarre, cartoonish characters and a poet protagonist.

Question: Are both Vladimir Mayakovsky and Tracy Chevalier considered Russian novelists?
Answer: no