Russian literature

The Russian Language--Early folk literature: Folklore--Songs--Sagas--_Lay of Igor’s Raid_--Annals--Mongolian Invasion; its consequences--Correspondence between John IV. and Kúrb...

PUSHKIN--Beauty of form--Pushkin and Schiller--His youth; his exile; his later career and death--Fairy tales: _Ruslán and Ludmíla_--His lyrics--“Byronism”--Drama--Evghéniy Onyeg...

Little Russia--_Nights on a Farm near Dikánka_ and _Mírgorod_--Village life and humour--_How Ivan Ivanovitch quarrelled with Ivan Nikíforytch_--Historical novel: _Tarás Búlba_--...

Turguéneff--The Character of his art--_A Sportsman’s Note-book_--Pessimism in his early novels--His series of novels representing the leading types of Society: Rudin--Lavrétskiy...

Gontcharóff--_Oblomoff_--The Russian malady of Oblomoffdom--Is it exclusively Russian? _The Precipice_--Dostoyévskiy--His first novel--General character of his work--_Memoirs fr...

Its origin--The Tsars Alexei and Peter I.--Sumarókoff--Pseudo-classical tragedies: Knyazhnín; Ozeroff--First comedies--The first years of the nineteenth century--Griboyedoff--Th...

The Russian Language--Early folk literature: Folk-lore--Songs--Sagas--_Lay of Igor’s Raid_--Annals--The Mongol Invasion; its consequences--Correspondence between John IV. and Kú...

Púshkin: Beauty of form--Púshkin and Schiller--His youth; his exile; his later career and death--Fairy tales: _Ruslán and Ludmíla_--His lyrics--“Byronism”--Drama--_Evghéniy Onyé...

Little Russia--_Nights on a Farm near Dikánka_, and _Mírgorod_--Village life and humour--_How Iván Ivánovitch quarrelled with Iván Nikíforytch_--Historical novel, _Tarás Búlba_-...

Turguéneff: The main features of his Art--_A Sportsman’s Notebook_--Pessimism of his early novels--His series of novels representing the leading types of Russian society--Rúdin-...

feelings, and it does this so as to compel the reader to judge full-grown people with the child’s point of view. Such is the realism of _Childhood_ and _Boyhood_--that is, their...

while he was well acquainted with the editing staff of the then famous review, _The Contemporary_, which was fighting the good fight for the liberation of the peasants and for f...

Goncharóff--_Oblómoff_--The Russian Malady of Oblómoffdom--Is it exclusively Russian?--_The Precipice_--Dostoyévskiy--His first Novel--General Character of his Work--_Memoirs fr...

Its Origin--The Tsars Alexei and Peter I.--Sumarókoff--Pseudo-classical Tragedies: Knyazhnín, Ozeroff--First Comedies--The First Years of the Nineteenth Century--Griboyedoff--Th...

Where am I going now? Home? No, home or the grave--it is the same. Yes, home or the grave!... the grave! Better the grave.... A little grave under a tree ... how sweet.... The s...

An important division of Russian novelists, almost totally unknown in Western Europe, and yet representing perhaps the most typical portion of Russian literature, are the “Folk-...

against all sorts of conventional art. He was a true child of the epoch characterised by Turguéneff in Bazároff. “I do not care for the form of my writings: truth will speak for...

To speak of political literature in a country which has no political liberty, and where nothing can be printed without having been approved by a rigorous censorship, sounds almo...