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Titsian Tabidze (1895-1937) - Georgian poet, translated by Pasternak; disappeared in the Stalinist purges.
Andrei Tarkovsky - Okay, so it's not literature. However, I think Tarkovsky is significant, and I'd like to increase his publicity. Film-maker and director of the twentieth century. His first major film, "Ivan's Childhood", won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. His international acclaim was a cause of ideological concern for the government, and many productions were not released until many years after their premiere. His films include "The Steamroller and the Violin", "Mirror" (an autobiographical work), "Solaris", and "Stalker", and "Sacrifice", his last work. These films have deep significance and probe the unanswered questions of mankind. Tarkovsky, an emigre, travelled abroad for a number of years near the end of his life. Sculpting in Time, his book, was published in 1986, and in December of that year, he died in a Parisian cancer clinic. He is buried in a cemetary for Russian emigres in Saint-Genviève-du-Bois, France.
Count Leo Tolstoy -celebrated author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and many more.
Yuri Trifonov -"tales of philistinism of the rising middle class", (The Russians, Smith).
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1894-1941) - A poet known for spontaneous, passionate verse; left the Soviet Union in 1921, returned in 1939 and commited suicide in 1941.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - author of Fathers and Sons, On the Eve and Rudin, Spring Torrents and Home of the Gentry; he also wrote short stories and plays, including "A Month in the Country". The brash Mr. Hemingway is known to have said: "Tolstoy wrote the best books, but Turgenev was the greatest writer!" But then again, what kind of an expert is Hemingway???
Fyodor Tyutchev poet of the 19th century."Tears of my people,/ O tears of my people!.../Falling unseen, in secret, unknown,/ Endlessly falling, welling from sorrow,/ Falling like rains of the autumn in darkness,/ Soundless and drear, in the darkness of night."
