Russian literature Russian literature A Confession is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Confession (novel)"
A History of Vodka is a book by V.V. Pokhlebkin. ...more on Wikipedia about "A History of Vodka"
A Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev that is often credited with persuading Tsar Alexander II of Russia to liberate the serfs in 1861. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Sportsman's Sketches"
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Александр Николаевич Островский in Russian) ( April 12 ( March 31, O.S.) 1823— June 14 ( June 2, O.S.) 1886) was a Russian dramatic author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandr Ostrovsky"
The term bard (барды) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s (and continues to be used in Russia today) for popular poets and singers who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment. Bard poetry differs from other poetry mainly in the fact that it is sung along with a simple guitar melody as opposed to being spoken. Another difference is that this form of poetry focuses less on style and more on meaning. This means that fewer stylistic devices are used, and the poetry often takes the form of narrative. What separates bard poetry from other songs is the fact that the music is far less important than the lyrics; chord progressions are often very simple and tend to repeat from one bard song to another. A far more obvious difference was the commerce-free nature of the genre: songs were written to be sung and not to be sold. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bard (Soviet Union)"
Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала; alternate U.S. title: The Hunter) is the title of a 1923 book by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, telling of his travels in the Ussuri basin, and the name of a Nanai hunter (ca. 1850-1908) who acted as a guide for Arsenyev's surveying crew from 1902-1907, and saved them from starvation and cold. Arsenyev portrays him as a noble savage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dersu Uzala"
Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. The tale centres on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. It recounts the hero's struggle to be noticed by the woman he loved. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity, where he finally achieves the greatness that has eluded him in real life and imagines that he is the king of Spain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diary of a Madman (novel)"
Erast Petrovich Fandorin, 19th-century Moscow detective, is the hero of the most popular historical detective stories in Russia by writer Boris Akunin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Erast Fandorin"
Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) is a short fictional story authored by Leo Tolstoy in 1873. ...more on Wikipedia about "Father Sergius"
Golden Age of Russian Poetry is the name traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first half of the 19th century. It is also called the Age of Pushkin, after its most significant poet (arguably, in Nabokov's words, the greatest poet this world was blessed with since the time of Shakespeare). Mikhail Lermontov and Fyodor Tyutchev are generally regarded as two most important Romantic poets after Pushkin. Vasily Zhukovsky and Konstantin Batyushkov are the best regarded of his precursors. Pushkin himself, however, considered Evgeny Baratynsky to be the finest poet of his day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Golden Age of Russian Poetry"
How Much Land Does a Man Need? is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a man who, in his lust for land, forfeits everything, including his own life. Although written in rough manner quite different from impeccable magic of Tolstoy's ordinary style and part of a series intended for reading to peasants, these 10 pages came to be praised by James Joyce as the greatest short story ever written. ...more on Wikipedia about "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
Ivan the Fool (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. It concerns the struggles of three brothers and a sister: ...more on Wikipedia about "Ivan the Fool (story)"
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( 1865) is the most famous story of the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th century European society, adultery, provincial life (thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's Madame Bovary) and the planning of murder by a woman, hence the title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth. The story inspired an eponymous opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, and the 1962 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda Sibirska Ledi Magbet or Siberian Lady Macbeth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (story)"
"Life of Alexander Nevsky" (Житие Александра Невского in Russian, or Zhitiye Aleksandra Nevskogo), a Russian literary monument of the late 13th — early 14th centuries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Life of Alexander Nevsky"
Moscow-Petushki, or Moscow to the End of the Line, is a semi-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev ( Венедикт Ерофеев). Written between 1969 and 1970 and passed around in samizdat, it was first published in 1973 in Israel and later, in 1977, in Paris. Because of the book's obvious political and social satire, it was published in the Soviet Union only in 1989, during the perestroika era of Russian history, in a literary almanac Vest' and in the magazine Abstinence and Culture (Trezvost i Kultura), slightly abridged. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moscow-Petushki"
Nevsky Prospekt or Nevsky Prospect is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 1831 and 1834, and published in 1835. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nevsky Prospekt (story)"
Pelagiya is the heroine of a trilogy of mystery novels by Boris Akunin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pelagiya"
Originally, Physiologist was an ancient collection of stories about nature, which probably appeared in Alexandria in 200 - 300 A.D. The ancient Russian Physiologist ( Russian: Физиолог) in its 15th-century version is a translation from Bulgarian. The Bulgarian version, in turn, was translated from Greek in the 11th - 12th century. Physiologist contains information on animals and birds (lion, eagle etc.), mythical creatures ( phoenix, centaur, siren etc.), stones, and trees. The stories are accompanied by commentaries in the spirit of medieval Christian symbolism. The images from the Physiologist found reflection in the old Russian literature, iconography, and book ornamentation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Physiologist (Russian literature)"
"Praying of Daniel the Immured" ("Моление Даниила Заточника" in Russian, or Moleniye Danila Zatochnika), is a Russian literary monument of the 13th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Praying of Daniel the Immured"
Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars ( Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Grigory Vinokur) who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. Russian formalism exerted a major influence on thinkers such as Mikhail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman, and on structuralism as a whole. The movement's members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. Under Stalin it became a pejorative term for elitist art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Russian formalism"
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. With the break up of the USSR different countries and cultures may lay claim to various ex-Soviet writers who wrote in Russian on the basis of birth or of ethnic or cultural associations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Russian literature"
The Serapion Brothers (or Serapion Fraternity, ) was a group of writers formed in Russia in 1922. The group was named after a novel by 19th Century German romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann called Die Serapions-Brüder (1819-1821). Its members included Nikolai Tikhonov, Veniamin Kaverin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Victor Shklovsky, Vsevolod Ivanov and Konstantin Fedin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Serapion Brothers"
Serge Poltoratzky (alternate spellings: Sergei or Sergey and Poltoratsky, Poltoratski or Poltoratskiy), 1803- 1884, was a Russian literary scholar, bibliophile and humanitarian. His major literary work was the Dictionary of Russian Authors, which he worked on for decades. He travelled extensively in Europe to find books and manuscripts needed for this work. He was also interested in the letters of Voltaire and in Franco-Russian cultural relations. He wrote articles for the French press on these and other literary topics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Serge Poltoratzky"
Sevastapol Sketches ( ) are three short stories stemmed from Leo Tolstoy's military experience during the Crimean War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sevastapol Sketches"
Silver Age is a term traditionally applied by Russian philologists to two first decades of the 20th century. It was an exceptionally creative period in the history of the Russian poetry, on the par with the Golden Age a century before that. In the Western world other terms, including Fin de siècle and Belle Époque, are somewhat more popular. ...more on Wikipedia about "Silver Age of Russian Poetry"
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