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Though among the most prominent writers in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century, Evgeniia Tur (1815-92) and V. Krestovskii (18207-89) are now little known. By looking in depth at …
Russian life and literature of the nineteenth century abounded with scenes of gambling - nowhere more prominently than in the lives and work of three of Russia's greatest writers: …
A literary-historical study of art-song enterprises in Russia's Golden Age. The book investigates the relationship between between poets and composers in Russia between 1800 and …
Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first …
After the Revolution, Russian literary culture was split between the emigre community and the citizens of the new Soviet Union. Brintlinger examines this conflict by looking at …
This book provides an introduction to Sergei Dovlatov (1941-90) that is closely attentive to the details of his life and work, their place in the history of Soviet society and …
In this text, Stephen Moeller-Sally explores how Nikolai Gogol achieved a peculiar brand of cultural authority after his service under the tsarist and Soviet regimes, and later …
This is a study of popular theatre and its impact on post-reform and pre-Revolutionary Russia. After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, educated Russians began to present plays …
Of a noble and distinguished family disenfranchised by the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Trubetskoi (1892-1937) alone remained in Russia, and suffered the consequences of his …
A study of the Virgin Mary and the ""saintly harlots"" - Mary of Egypt and Mary Magdalene - as a cultural paradigm encoded in Chekhov's prose. The author establishes the authority …