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  RUSSIAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on RUSSIAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Russian as he was, and accustomed to serfdom, he was yet astonished at the wretched condition of the French peasants.
Russian writers of history have not generally occupied themselves with any other subject than that of their own country, but an exception may be found in the writings of Timofei Granovskiy (1813-1855), such as Abb Suger (1849) and Four Hsstoricai Portraits (1850).
Russian writers have not often devoted themselves to the political and social conditions of other countries, but an exception must be made in the case of the books by Professor Vinogradov, formerly of Moscow, notably his Investigations into the Social History of England in the Middle Ages (1887).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RU/RUSSIAN_LITERATURE.htm   (9587 words)

  
 Russian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Medieval Russian literature had an overwhelmingly religious character and used an adapted form of the Church Slavonic language with many South Slavic elements.
Traditional Russian prose remains popular, and distinctive work has come out of the Russian provinces: for example Nina Gorlanova from Perm has written stories about the everyday problems and joys of the provincial intelligentsia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_literature   (1050 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russian Language and Literature
The most ancient monument of Russian literature, and at the same time of the ecclesiastical Palæoslavic language common to the primitive Slav Christians, is the Gospel called "Ostromirovo", written at Novgorod in 1056-57 by the Deacon Gregor, by order of Ostromir, first magistrate (posadnik) of the city.
To profane literature belong the "Testament" Vladimir Monomachus, written in 1099, in which its author gives a recital of his enterprises; and the celebrated account of the battle of Igor ("Slovo" or "Polku Igorevie"), which was found in 1795 in the library of Count Musin Pushkin.
Russian literature lost its ecclesiastical character and assumed a lay form; and in ecclesiastical literature itself there was effected a transformation towards the modern, due to the reforms of Peter the Great.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13265a.htm   (8674 words)

  
 Russian literature at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Medieval Russian literature was overwhelmingly religious in its character and used Old Church Slavonic language.
The beginning of the 20th century is known as a Silver Age of the Russian poetry.
In the end of the 20th century and the early 21th century Russian literature is having hard times, with maybe only several writers raising above the mass of pulp fiction, such as Victor Pelevin or Alexandr Sorokin.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Russian_literature.html   (700 words)

  
 Programs of Study: Russian Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The candidate is responsible for a general knowledge of the history of the chosen literature and a firm grasp of one selected period, genre, or theme.
The candidate is responsible for a general knowledge of the history of the chosen literature and a firm grasp of one selected period, genre, or theme that links that literature to Russian literature.
The candidate is responsible for a general knowledge of Russian intellectual history and a firm grasp of one period or aspect of the culture.
www.columbia.edu /cu/slavic/programs/russlit.htm   (1072 words)

  
 19th-Century Russian Literature
Russian aristocrats traveled extensively in Western Europe and adopted French as the language of polite discourse.
Despite the general backwardness of Russian society, its openness to the West (briefly interrupted by Napoleon's 1812 invasion) had profound influences on its literature throughout the 19th Century.
Although he plays a role in Russian literature comparable to that of Goethe in Germany or even Shakespeare in England, his works were little known abroad during his lifetime.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/hum_303/russian.html   (1150 words)

  
 Russian literature
Russian literature: Early Literature - Early Literature Russian literature was first produced after the introduction of Christianity from...
Russian literature: Western Influence: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Western Influence: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Western influence was manifest in the...
Russian literature: World War II to the Present - World War II to the Present During World War II, Ehrenburg and Simonov were outstanding reporters.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0842737.html   (159 words)

  
 Literature After Stalin (from Russian literature) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
With the death of Stalin in 1953, Russian literature was freed from the most oppressive demands of socialist realism.
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
The term Russian literature is used to describe the literature of different areas at different periods, from the loose confederation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus that originated in the 10th century to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to present-day Russia.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207592   (779 words)

  
 F&P Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Just now in "Russian Literature of 19-th Century" and "Russian Literature of 20-th Century" sections of our server you can find brief bibliographical information about 56 poets and different works (original and translated) of various literature genres ê lyrical poems, ballads, epigrams, fairy tales, fables, Russian epics, comedies, stories in verses.
Besides Russian classical authors we want to introduce you the works of little known and seldom published poets such as A. Zhemchuzhnikov, A. Koltsov, L. Mey, Eu.
In future we plan to open new sections: "Literature of the Forties", "Literature of the Sixties" and to add publications to "Literature of 20-th Century" section and "Biographies" section.
www.fplib.org /literature   (423 words)

  
 Russian Literature
Her services are in constant demand, and she can frequently be found on the juries for Russia's various literary prizes, including the Russian Booker, for which she chaired the first jury in 1992.
But literature is not a cemetery, where old graves must be removed to make room for the new.
As for Lyudmila Ulitskaya [who won the Russian Booker prize earlier this month], it's clear to me that she is simply the cream of this year's crop.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5611-1.cfm   (1223 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Hungarian literature (Russian And Eastern European Literature) - Encyclopedia
In the last quarter of the same century, Hungarian literature was given fresh life with the work of GyOrgy Bessenyei, while Ferenc Kazinczy led a reform of the Hungarian language.
The establishment of a national theater and the founding in 1825 of the Hungarian Academy of Science assured the development of a national literature.
The revolt of Oct., 1956, whose participants included a number of prominent writers, was followed by a gradual easing of censorship; with the collapse of the Communist regime, censorship ended.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HungariLit.html   (448 words)

  
 Russian literature at Cornell
An introduction to Russian language and literature / edited by Robert Auty and Dimitri Obolensky ; with the editorial assistance of Anthony Kingsford.
Nineteenth-century Russian literature in English : a bibliography of criticismand translations / compiled by Carl R. Proffer and Ronald Meyer.
A bibliographic index of literature from 1922-1978 on the V.L. Maiakovskii Theatre in Moscow.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/slav/litbibmain.html   (4597 words)

  
 Russian literature: Early Literature
Russian literature was first produced after the introduction of Christianity from Byzantium in the 10th cent.
Russian literature in general was hampered by the autocratic regime of the czars and by political and religious turmoil, although these conditions generated the few exceptional works of the 16th and 17th cent.
The politics of science and literature in French and Russian criticism of the 1860s.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0860849.html   (331 words)

  
 FEB-web: The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature & Folklore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
FEB-web is, first and foremost, a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it.
The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore is a joint project of The Gorky Insitute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Science and The Informregistr Center for Scientific Research and Development at the Ministry for Information Technology and Communications of the Russian Federation.
This project is funded in part by The Russian Foundation for Humanities Scholarship and The Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
feb-web.ru /indexen.htm   (843 words)

  
 Selected Literatures and Authors Pages - Russian Literature
A Russian and Russian Orthodox View of Simeon of Polotsk - Scroll to RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE UNION BETWEEN BELARUS AND RUSSIA section (Possible Mistranslation?).
This document is excerpted from from chapter two of the author's Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism.
Blok poems in Russian (koi8-r) and poems in French.
learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/lit_authors_russian.html   (1353 words)

  
 Russian Studies at Bucknell University
The old Russian Empire has undergone a major revolution.
Unlike the earlier revolution, however, which removed the nations of the USSR from the world community, the second revolution has brought them back into that community.
The Russian studies program is geared toward teaching students about these changes.
www.bucknell.edu /Russian   (98 words)

  
 Russian Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Russian philosophy has always been an integral part of the literature.
Dostoevsky certainly influenced 20th century literature and philosophy more than any other Russian writer, even though he shares the honor of influencing the course of the this century more than other writers with Tolstoy.
Vysotsky's gruff voice and starkly, sometimes slyly, poetic lyrics have inspired two generations of Russians and are working their way into the young hearts of a third.
bridegirl.com /articles/russian-literature.htm   (1881 words)

  
 Russian Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ArdisBooks, Russian publishing house with an archive of photographs of Russian writers: Nabokov, Bulgakov, Platonov, Ahkmatova, Vvendensky.
Russian avant garde links, Russian avant-garde culture and art.
Its purpose is to promote multi- and inter-disciplinary research on the work of the Russian philosopher and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle.
www.zeroland.co.nz /lit_russian.html   (233 words)

  
 F&P Russian/NIS Literature Resources
This new center contains one of the largest private holdings of emigre Russian books, manuscripts, newspapers, and periodicals of the twentieth century in existence.
An Associate Professor of Russian and German in the Department of Modern Languages at Marist College, Dr. Norkeliunas provides a list of links to various sites pertaining to Russian culture, history, language, and literature in Russia.
Russian literature online and the Gazety i Zhurnaly developed in Russian only by Alex Farber.
www.friends-partners.org /friends/culture/literature/russianlit.html   (369 words)

  
 Russian Links
Russian Art of Avantgarde This site is fully dedicated to The Russian Avant-Garde Art Movement from the beginning of the XXth century.
Russian Painting A Comprehensive History of Russian Art from Icons to the 20th Century.
Russian History from Bucknell University This Site is One of the Best Sites on Russian History on the Web.
www.hunter.cuny.edu /classics/russian/russianlinks   (2128 words)

  
 19th Century Russian Literature Homepage
This class will be utilizing the web both as a source of additional information on the authors and works we will be studying, and to extend classroom discussion by granting students the latitude to exchange ideas, information, and insights outside of the restrictions of our limited weekly class time.
These discussions, so far as they deal with topics of Russian literature, can be as free ranging and discursive as you see fit.
Students are encouraged to e-mail me directly with any questions they encounter about the class, the website, or Russian literature in general.
www.brandeis.edu /departments/ecs/recs130a/recs130a.html   (445 words)

  
 Literature
Because the amount of data is large, I will not offer a WWW access to the data in the near future -- only FTP -- but I will provide a small index.
Many texts in this collection are Russian science fiction that is almost completely unknown in the West.
M.I.P. Company invites you to visit their page where they present what they publish -- Russian controversial literature.
www.ibiblio.org /sergei/Literature/Literature.html   (356 words)

  
 Russian Literature Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Russian Folklore from the beginning till modern time (in Russian/KOI).
Non-profit project "First Pen" and the best Russian modern writers.
Special Library of Modern Russian Literarute with new names in the catalogue
www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/vkonoval/RussianLiterature.html   (251 words)

  
 SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Summarized
A spineless Russian intellectual is interred in Germany at the start of World War I. After the war, he fails to find his place in Revolutionary society.
Short excerpt from an interview in which Fedin comments on the "invigoration" of Soviet literature and its renewed willingness to present the conflicts and ugliness of life.
It provoked a firestorm of controversy and marked the beginning of The Thaw in Soviet literature.
www.sovlit.com   (5205 words)

  
 Russian Books On-Line In English
Folk and moral tales, and poetry from Russian Orthodox culture
Speaking In Tongues(some Russian Poetry in English Translations)
Folk and moral tales, and poetry from Russian Orthodox culture(on-line)
www.geocities.com /ruslitonweb   (363 words)

  
 For undergraduates in Russian: Russian Literature Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These sites are listed alphabetically under general literature links, or links to sites on individual writers.
Please note that the Russian Department of the University of Exeter in no way endorses or guarantees the content of the pages cited.
Probably the most extensive library of Russian literature for all periods currently available online.
www.sml.ex.ac.uk /russian/ruslit.html   (315 words)

  
 LITTLE RUSSIA IN US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The "Little Russia" Music page features Russian Opera Singers, Folk Songs, a collection of Russian romantic songs, POP Music, and artists' songs and lyrics.
The lyrics have been saved in GIF format and do not require any Russian font for reading.
Here are a few Russian jokes in English translation, as well as links to some Russian texts in KOI8 format.
russia-in-us.com   (357 words)

  
 Sher's Russian Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Literature -- Brodsky -- Poetry and Prose -- in Russian
Literature -- Tolstoy -- Childhood and Early Manhood of Tolstoy -- by Birukoff
Literature/Collection -- Free -- Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse
www.websher.net /inx/icdefault1.htm   (7135 words)

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