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1. Lermontov. But I don't know how his Russian charisma can be translated into other languages. Nevertheless, I like him; it's a pity he died so young.
2. Saltykov-Shchedrin. I have no idea how his irony and humor can be translated. But I'm sure someone has managed it.
3. Tolstoy, Alexei Konstantinovich (not to be confused with his relatives, the Soviet science fiction writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Leo Tolstoy, the Tolstoy family is large, and many of its members are talented writers, including women - for example, Tatyana Tolstaya is the mother of the famous designer Artemy Lebedev, genetics and starting conditions can do great things, but not all of these things generated by Tolstoy are valuable to me. I also consider Leo Tolstoy to be a great fool.).
You can start with this short story, which is only a couple of pages long. If you like it, you can move on to the rest of his bibliography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_the_Vourdalak