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  Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet
It was on the cusp of these revolutionary events that the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was born in 1889.
He was a romantic figure, a poet and adventurer enamored with North Africa.
The same year she found success as a poet, her son Lev was born.
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  RUSSIAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on RUSSIAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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).
28.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RU/RUSSIAN_LITERATURE.htm   (9587 words)

  
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Apart from their common reaction against the expressive poetry of the 1950s and 1960s, the language poets and third wave Russian poets also felt that they shared the experience of being socially marginalized and the corresponding necessity to create and participate in an alternative community.
The significance of the Russo-American relationship between experimental poets in the 1980s lies partly in the way in which experimental poets in both countries participated in discussions of postmodernism and in the establishment of a canon of postmodernist poetry.
Language poets made contact with a wide variety of Russian poets including Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Aleksei Parshchikov, Il'ia Kutik, and Olga Sedakova, who are all dramatically different from one another and cannot in any way be seen as constituting a movement or circle.
homepages.slingshot.co.nz /~jacobe/main_current.htm   (2866 words)

  
 RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/10/31 :: Russian Poets in Israel Learn to Speak in Tongues
Wieseltier was one of a handful of Israeli poets who made the trip to the Moscow poetry festival, which was dedicated in large part to Russian-language poets no longer living in Russia.
Russians complained that they were victims of exclusion and prejudice, but, according to Singer, they also did their fair share in setting themselves apart.
According to Singer, the very fact that she and Wieseltier and other foreign poets were invited to the Moscow festival last week is a sign that the Russian literary scene is ready for exchange in a way that it had never been before.
www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/10/31/society01.shtml   (1696 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: Ten Russian Poets edited by Richard McKane
Prisoners in the Russian gulag (Solzhenitsyn is a case in point) often composed their testimony in verse for instrumental reasons - to make it easier to remember.
A curiosity is the inclusion of 15 pieces by the "Anonymous poet from the Arsenal Mental Prison Hospital"; otherwise, the contributors are all professional writers, but have little else in common.
Marina Tsvetaeva is not one of McKane's metric dozen of Russian poets, perhaps because she is - in her greatest collection After Russia - the archetypal non-survivor of 20th-century Russian literary history, drawn to self-annihilation on the one hand and fierce complaint on the other.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/poetry/0,6121,1040795,00.html   (1062 words)

  
 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
She made her debut as a poet at the age of 18 with the collection Evening Album, a tribute to her childhood.
For Russian writers Bashkiartseff became the ideal of the female artist, and her writings were also dealt by Simone de Beauvoir in her study The Second Sex.
She blended elements from Orthodox prayers and folklore with modernist idiom, and often sought inspiration from the 18th century and the (Russian) romantic age, from which she adopted the idea of the poet as a rebel or an outcast: "We are poets, which has the sound of outcast," she once wrote.
great.russian-women.net /Marina_Tsvetaeva.shtml   (1586 words)

  
 Two Russian Poets - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
When I refer to the Russian originals, it is obvious that McKane is firmly entrenched in the basic meaning of the lines (in transmitting information), but it is impossible to read them without instantly wanting to substitute and invert.
Weissbort's understanding of the poet and the general worth of this collection are further expanded by the participation of Robin Milner-Gulland (a premier Zabolotsky scholar) and Zabolotsky's son, Nikita.
Unlike Mayakovksy and other poets who perished either by their own hands or at the hands of the state, Zabolotsky was able to defuse his politics and retain the revolutionary force that informed his earlier poems right up to the series of heart attacks that took his life.
www.raintaxi.com /online/2001spring/russianpoets.shtml   (1026 words)

  
 The passionate voices of Russian poet-martyrs
Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, two of the leading figures in the history of 20th century Russian literature, continue to be revered as poets, confirming the verdict of their contemporaries.
Russian poets, after all, are supposed to be outrageous, promiscuous, melodramatic, quarrelsome and contradictory, and the fact that not even Stalinist persecution could dampen the challenge they posed to bourgeois morals will surely make them seem, to many readers, only the more admirable.
For all the uniformity that Russian communism sought to enforce, and for all its power to stifle dissent, what survives of Stalin's rule, when censorship ceases, is a heritage obstinately diverse and utterly Russian: passionate, untamed by convention and, in its search for truth, impossible to silence for long.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/09/12/RVGKK8IJ9F1.DTL   (904 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Russia [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia.
Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the Romanovs.
The Russian language is the only official state language, but the individual republics have often made their native language co-official next to Russian.
encyclozine.com /Russia   (2640 words)

  
 The Symbolists
The Russian symbolist poets were a collection of artists who drew on deep feelings of mysticism when they gave form to the thoughts and visions that the Muse inspired in them.
As a young poet, Aleksander Blok (1880-1921) was inspired by Solovev.
The harlequin is the sinister trickster clown from the Italian theatrical tradition of the Commedia dell'arte, which fascinated many poets and playwrites of the early 20th century in Russia.
www.ualberta.ca /~lmalcolm/poetry/symbolists.html   (595 words)

  
 Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities. Russian poets, Russian painters, Russian artists
As a child, Pushkin was greatly influenced by the French and Russian culture.
The Russian basis of his upbringing was laid by his grandmother and by his nanny Arina Rodionovna, whom he immortalized in his works.
The poet was deeply offended by this “honor”, though Nicholas considered it to be the sign of his favor.
stpetersburg-guide.com /people/pushkin.shtml   (2141 words)

  
 Famous Russian Women at Famous.Russian-Women.net
Anna Ioannovna (Anna I), Russian Tsarina from 1730 to 1740
Marina Tsvetaeva, One of the most original of the Russian 20th-century poets
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Heritage of Russian Verse at Epinions.com
The Silver Age of Russian poetry, the Symbolists, Futurists, and Acmeists of the turn of the century, and the early Soviet poets receive the greatest attention from Obolensky.
For the student of Russian, it is wonderful to read the original verses and enjoy the beauty of their form with the aid of clear translations to elucidate meaning.
The biographical paragraphs of the poets are included not in the body of the book, but in the table of contents.
www.epinions.com /content_77681888900   (1594 words)

  
 Anna Akhmatova
March 5, 1966, Domodedovo, near Moscow), Russian poet recognized at her death as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature.
Akhmatova began writing verse at the age of 11 and at 21 became a member of the Acmeist group of poets, whose leader, Nikolay Gumilyov, she married in 1910 but divorced in 1918.
Ronald Hingley, Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution (1981), defines the historical and social background of the four poetical titans of 20th-century Russia.
www.odessit.com /namegal/english/ahmatova.htm   (989 words)

  
 Welcome to the Russian Poetry Land
Famous Russiam Poet of XIX century.Whether chose to write poetry, prose, or drama, the stamp of genius was always to be found on it.
His poems are the profession of faith of an independent and free man. As a poet and a thinker Lermontov exerted an immense on all the literature that followed.
Her poetry is unique in its cadences and rhytms Resonant and powerful, magnificently orchestrated, Tsvetaeva poems are impassioned monologues, their whole structure and tempi matched to gesture and mood.
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 Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities. Russian poets, Russian painters, Russian artists
It was the celebration of the Russian patriotism in which the characteristics of Russian and Polish national music are vividly contrasted.
For the first time, genuine Russian music was heard on the operatic stage with stunning effect, particularly in the choral scenes.
Mikhail Glinka was buried at the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
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 The Blue Penny Quarterly, Summer '96
The translated works of 253 Russian poets, hand-picked by Yevtushenko, have been brought together in an emotionally, politically and historically powerful collection of contemporary poetry.
The poems blaze with what Yevtushenko terms "the Russian national spirit." That spirit has found its way into the 830 poems represented here; much of this poetry was censored by the government and many of its authors were subjected to social persecution.
In spite of all the authoritarian impediments and punishments, these Russian poets refused to be controlled or silenced.
ebbs.english.vt.edu /olp/bpq/8/reviews/russian.html   (627 words)

  
 Poetry of the First World War: Russian Poets
The greatest of Russia's Symbolist poets, Aleksandr Blok, was born in St. Petersburg in 1880.
In 1919-21 he was chairman of the Bolshoi Theatre and the head of the Petrograd branch of the All-Russian Union of Poets in 1920-21.
Gumilyov was executed by firing squad in 1921 for counter-revolutionary activities, the first great poet (though not the last) to be executed by the Bolsheviks.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | For crying out loud
Then the reciting voice (for the Russian poets shamed us all with their reciting skills) could reach up into the stratosphere.
This association was undermined for me, at around the time of perestroika, by a performance by Vosnesensky, in which the poet was quite unmistakeably and vigorously campaigning in favour of the government of the day.
The opposite of the grand style is the intimate theatre, and this has often been taken to be preferable to the grand style in the large venue, precisely because it is believed that the voice, the behaviour of the actor and the consequent acting style are less produced, more naturalistic, more authentic.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1406250,00.html?gusrc=rss   (837 words)

  
 Jurgis Baltrusaitis as Rescuer of Russian Poets and Artists from Bolshevik Persecution - Norkeliunas
As a famous Russian symbolist, widely known in the pre-revolutionary culture ferment, i.e., in the Silver Age, BaltruĊĦaitis is remembered not only as a poet, but also as a diplomat of the highest caliber.
The following is a roster of nineteen (and an incomplete number as such) famous Russian poets who were active at the time of the Revolution, regardless of their ideological orientations or political attitudes towards the Bolsheviks: 1.
There was a Russian table that summer at the university dining hall where those pursuing Russian language, met during lunch for practice with their professors.
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 Zaitzev V. A. Sergei Yesenin and Contemporary Russian Poets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In the late I980s and early I990s works of well-known contemporary Russian Poets (including the poets of the so-called "New Wave", of the I960s — I970s Underground and of the Russian Diaspora) which can be associated with the Yesenin Theme appeared.
The study of a number of contemporary poets led to the conclusion that the nowadays poetic treatment of the Yesenin Theme, of Yesenin's image and fate as well as of his poetic imagery and motifs is multifarious and peculiar.
It is essential to mention that the poets' attention is attracted to the whole of Yesenin's works — from his early pieces [such as "The Birch-Tree"] to the cycles "Russia the Soviet" and "Persian Motifs" or the poems "Anna Snegina" and, especially, "The Black Man".
www.philol.msu.ru /rus/izd/95sod5/zait.html   (273 words)

  
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Gerald J. Janecek is Professor of Russian at the University of Kentucky.
The seemingly huge readership for Russian poetry before glasnost was an artificial phenomenon that fed on poetry's ability to push the limits of Soviet censorship beyond the usual framework.
The poets themselves appear to be enjoying this state of affairs, even if the critics and general public continue to be unsettled by it.
www.umanitoba.ca /faculties/arts/german_and_slavic/rudnyckyj_series/7janecek.html   (4887 words)

  
 List of Russian language poets : Russian poets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Poets who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
I'd a-been a better man if she'd a-lived, Jen; and a better sadly for a moment, and then, leaning over and touching him gently on the feel so bad.
www.termsdefined.net /ru/russian-poets.html   (117 words)

  
 Ten Russian Poets: Surviving the Twentieth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
McKane and co. have produced and excellent survey of Russian poetry from the dawn of the last century to the present day.
Each poet holds his/her own against the aformentioned greats, and their sections are nicely introduced with brief biographies.
His gamble pays off in that the underappreciated poets included make the volume far more entertaining than yet another collection of the more noteworthy poets same few famous poems.
www.textkit.com /0_0856463280.html   (225 words)

  
 Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities. Russian poets, Russian painters, Russian artists
She later graduated from an institute in Kiev, and it is here that her childhood romance with former Tsarskoe Selo schoolmate Nikolai Gumilev (later also one of the greatest Russian poets) finally culminated in marriage.
Perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the “Silver Age”, Alexander Blok, was deeply impressed by Anna’s poetry, and after Blok’s death critics ranked her as the greatest Russian poet of her time after Blok.
Akhmatova is still the favorite poet of a lot of people, including me. She is worshipped here in Russia and especially in St. Petersburg where she lived for a great part of her life.
stpetersburg-guide.com /people/akhmatova.shtml   (1666 words)

  
 Russian and American poets to converge at Stevens in April
Among the poets expected to participate are Evgeny Bunimovich, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Vladimir Druk, Yaroslav Mogutin, Aleksei Parshchikov, Dmitry Volchek and Ivan Zhdanov.
The second, which Foster and other American and Russian poets will attend, will be held in Moscow on May 26-28.
The cultural exchange program was established in 1993 primarily to bring Russian poets and poetry to America and American poets to Russia.
www.stevens-tech.edu /press/pr/pr117.htm   (690 words)

  
 Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russia's Greatest Fantasy Poet, Poets and Poetry at Aspirennies.com
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, fantasy, romantic and short-story writer; Pushkin has often been considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Russian poet and author, who founded the literature of his language with epic and lyric poems, plays, novels, and short stories.
Pushkin provided a literary heritage for Russians, whose native language had hitherto been considered unfit for literature.
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