Aleksandr Pushkin is, by common agreement — at least among his own compatriots — the greatest of all Russian writers. The major part of his lyrical poetry was written between 1820 and 1830, but some of his poetical masterpieces were composed in the last seven years of his life, when he was turning his attention to prose.
Anna Akhmatova is the literary pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko. Her first husband was Gumilev, and she too became one of the leading Acmeist poets. Her second book of poems, Beads (1914), brought her fame. Her earlier manner, intimate and colloquial, gradually gave way to a more classical severity, apparent in her volumes …
Knowledge of the Russian language and culture will help students to take full advantage of opportunities which the New Russia offers. The program offers two s — one in Russian language, the other in Russian studies.
A small press specializing in world literature and poetry in English and translation from Russian, East/Central European languages, Korean, and Chinese.
Dead Souls: Dead Souls, novel by Nikolay Gogol, published in Russian as Myortvye dushi in 1842. This picaresque work, considered one of the world’s finest satires, traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune. It is admired
This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language.. For the plain text list, see Category:Russian poets.. See also: List of Russian-language writers, List of Russian-language novelists, List of Russian-language playwrights, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian literature, Russian …
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Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus’, the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were …
Russian people famous all over the world – composers, writers, poets, painters, scientists, explorers, critics, architects, sculptors, ballet-dancers, art collectors, etc. Breath-taking biographies of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky, Chekhov, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Aivazovsky, and others. You’ll find out what they are famous for …
