# Russian literature

Author: Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz, 1842-1921

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71308

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Russian+literature+Kropotkin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Russian Language--Early folk literature: Folklore--Songs--Sagas--_Lay of Igor’s Raid_--Annals--Mongolian Invasion; its consequences--Correspondence between John IV. and Kúrbskiy--Religious splitting--Avvakúm’s _Memoirs_--The eighteenth century--Peter I. and his contemporaries: Tretiakóvskiy--Lomonósoff--Sumarókoff--The times of Catherine II: Derzhávin--Von Wízin--The Freemasons: Nóvikoff--Radíscheff--Early nineteenth century: Karamzin and Zhukóvskiy--The Decembrists--Ryléeff.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII.), Tolstóy, seems to have taken no interest in it; and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/10/index.md)
- [did. His writings are a violent protest against æsthetics, and even](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/18/index.md)
- [SCENE IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/17/index.md)
- [did. With him, it is the child itself which expresses its childish](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV: TURGUÉNEFF; TOLSTÓY 88](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V: GONTCHARÓFF; DOSTOYÉVSKIY; NEKRÁSOFF 151](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II: PUSHKIN; LERMONTÓFF 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII: POLITICAL LITERATURE; SATIRE;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI: THE DRAMA 191](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III: GÓGOL 67](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII: FOLK-NOVELISTS 221](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/russian-literature-71308/chapters/7/index.md)