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# I have read the new draft of the 2024 Unified State Exam (EGE) and, besides the changes that hold little interest for me, not being a school teacher of Russian literature, concerning the number of tasks (11 instead of 12) and primary marks (48 instead of
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- Published: 2023-08-27T12:58:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:56.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Observations, Education, Society

So, in order.

1\. When answering a question, one may no longer refer to any author at will; one must choose from those named in the question itself.

2\. Russian literature before the second half of the nineteenth century has vanished from the codifier of core texts. Now the first five tasks may feature only Ostrovsky / *The Storm*, Goncharov / *Oblomov*, Turgenev / *Fathers and Sons*, Nekrasov / *Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?*, Dostoevsky / *Crime and Punishment*, Tolstoy / *War and Peace*, Chekhov / *The Cherry Orchard*, Gorky / *The Lower Depths*, Blok / *The Twelve*, Mayakovsky / *A Cloud in Trousers*, Sholokhov / *Quiet Flows the Don*, Solzhenitsyn / *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*.

3\. Fonvizin, Griboyedov, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol have disappeared from the codifier. This means that the work of these authors cannot turn up in the first part of the examination.

4\. The second part of the examination, where the pupils face the long essay, has retained more authors, among them the poets Tyutchev, Fet, Yesenin, Tsvetaeva and Akhmatova. Kuprin, Andreyev and Shukshin have also been added.

5\. Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Fonvizin, Griboyedov and Zhukovsky have not vanished without trace. They were removed from the EGE, but entered into the codifier of the OGE (the basic state examination taken after the ninth form). The officials' reasoning runs as follows: if you sit the EGE in literature, you are obliged to sit the OGE in literature too, and there you may display your knowledge of Russian letters of the first half of the nineteenth century.

6\. So after the ninth form, may everything that came before Tolstoy and Turgenev be happily forgotten? Not quite. Significant names of Russian literature have disappeared from the codifier, but this applies only to tasks 1-5 and 11\. In tasks 5-10, however, this knowledge may still come in useful. That is, Pushkin may still be recalled in the tasks on comparing lyric poetry or prose.

7\. Thus the disappearance of Pushkin and Lermontov from the codifier simply defies logic, although answering half of the questions without knowing their legacy will be very hard indeed.

In conclusion, I shall say that in view of the new changes I would advise reading *War and Peace* and *Quiet Flows the Don* far more attentively, for questions on them now carry greater weight.

Ah yes, one last thing: a grammar category has been added to the tasks requiring an extended answer, which means that essays will now be marked for grammatical errors as well.