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A Russian Schoolboy: Memorial to Aksakov: The Aksakov Family Coat of Arms: Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009) The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter The Winter's Hero: Boris Akunin (born 1956) Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series: Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011: Mikhail Albov (1851–1911) On the ...
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; [1] 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) [2] [3] was a Soviet-Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.
Russian Winter, sometimes personified as "General Frost" [1] or "General Winter", [2] is an aspect of the climate of Russia that has contributed to military failures of several invasions of Russia and the Soviet Union. Mud is a related contributing factor that impairs military maneuvering in Russia and elsewhere, and is sometimes personified as ...
1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.
The Book of Veles is mentioned in the 1971 program article Vityazi by the Soviet poet Igor Kobzev, who was fond of Russian paganism and contrasted it with Christianity, which allegedly caused irreparable harm to the original Russian culture. The article was directed against the distortions of the Russian language and Russian history by some ill ...
Semyon Babayevsky (1909–2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier Isaak Babel (1894–1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934), constructivist poet, February Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen Ivan Bakhtin (1756–1818), poet, satirist and politician Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975 ...
Fathers and Sons (Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; pre-1918 spelling Отцы и дѣти), literally Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow by Grachev & Co on 23 February 1862. [1] It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century.
The plan was for Maria Gavrilovna to slip out in the middle of a winter's night and take a sleigh to a distant village church, where her love would meet her for the wedding. On the night in question, a blizzard was raging, but the girl managed to do all she had promised and to reach the church.