Author: Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Publisher: X-S Books
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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"A complex dramatic reconstruction of Russian history concerned with the founding in 1905 of one of the earliest soviets, at the textile center of Ivanovo-Voznesensk, the poem widens to take in the reigns of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Tsar Nicholas II" -- from inside flap.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504062337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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A successful man must face the terror of his own mortality in this masterful nineteenth-century Russian novella by the author of War and Peace. In his later years, Leo Tolstoy began to contemplate the inescapable realities of mortality—its terrifying mystery, its many indignities, and the way it forces one to look back on the legacy and regrets of one’s life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, widely considered the masterpiece of Tolstoy’s late career, is both a deeply insightful meditation on the final months of a man’s life, and an unsparing critique of conventional middle-class life in nineteenth-century Russia. Ivan Ilyich, a prosperous high-court judge, spends his days pursuing social advancement among his peers and avoiding his loveless marriage. But when a seemingly innocuous injury signals the beginning of a terminal illness, Ilyich begins to see the true worth of his life with tragic clarity.
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 9780805237832
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this old Russian folk tale, a fool sets out to see the world.
Author: Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Publisher: Orion
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484468
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1682996948
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. The stories in this book have been adapted for children, making them the perfect introduction to Tolstoy for young readers.
Author: Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433721X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.
Author: Konstantin Sheiko
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN: 3838259157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Anatolii Fomenko is a distinguished Russian mathematician turned popular history writer, founder of the so-called New Chronology school, and part of the explosion of alternative historical writing that has emerged in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among his more startling claims are that the Old Testament was written after the New Testament, that Russia is older than Greece and Rome, and that the medieval Mongol Empire was in fact a Slav-Turk world empire, a Russian Horde, to which Western and Eastern powers paid tribute. While academic historians dismiss Fomenko as a dangerous ethno-nationalist or post-modern clown, Fomenko’s publications invariably outsell his conventional rivals. Just as Putin has restored Russia’s faith in its future, Fomenko and an army of fellow alternative historians are determined to restore Russia’s faith in its past. For Fomenko, the key to Russia’s greatness in the future lies in ensuring that Russians understand the true greatness of their past. Fomenko and other pseudo-historians have built upon existing Russian notions of identity, specifically the widespread belief in the positive qualities of empire and the special mission of Russia. He has drawn upon previous attempts to establish a Russian identity, ranging from Slavophilism through Stalinism to Eurasianism. While fantastic, Fomenko’s pseudo-history strikes many Russian readers as no less legitimate than the lies and distortions peddled by Communist propagandists, Tsarist historians and church chroniclers.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781096988410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. It describes the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil. The name "Ivan the Fool" hints to a popular hero of Russian folklore.
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 9780971412941
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.
