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Goncharov

American  
[gon-chuh-rawf, -rof, guhn-chyi-rawf] / ˈgɒn tʃəˌrɔf, -ˌrɒf, gən tʃjɪˈrɔf /

noun

  1. Ivan Alexandrovich 1812–91, Russian novelist.


Goncharov British  
/ ˌɡʌntʃəˈrɔf /

noun

  1. Ivan Aleksandrovich (ɪˈvan alɛksanˈdrɔvɪtʃ). 1812–91, Russian novelist: his best-known work is Oblomov (1859)

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He tells us that Ivan Goncharov, a 19th-century writer, published three books, when he published four.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

“It looks believable,” says Alexander Goncharov, a physicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

From Science Magazine Mar. 8, 2023

“Privacy policies and terms are drafted by lawyers and they always prefer to be on the safe side,” Goncharov wrote in an email.

From Slate Jul. 18, 2019

"Foreign policy is viewed as a spectacle here," said Goncharov.

From Reuters Oct. 9, 2015

But with all that, the artistic qualities of his novels are incomparably below those of any one of the great Russian masters Tolstoi, Turgenev, or Goncharov.

From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

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