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City Hunter: Moscow Museum of S. A. Esenin
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| If you are looking for some great insight into Moscow literary life, we recommend you to visit a museum of the famous Russian poet Sergey Esenin. This fascinating place is a hidden gem in the city centre that is not always included in guide books, but really deserves attention of tourists.
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| --03-05-2012-- |
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Must-Read Russian Books: Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy Top the List
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| Earlier this month we decided to explore, what books you would recommend to someone uninitiated in the Russian prose to read to start their acquaintance with the mysterious world of Russian literature. Our readers and visitors responded, and here is what they had to say...
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| --20-02-2012-- |
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Beautiful Poems About Russian Winter
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| Russian winter is not just a very cold weather with frost and snow. It is a beautiful and even romantic time, which always was an inspiration for many Russian writers, poets, artists and musicians. Their works help people to understand not only charm of Russian winter, but to get to know peculiarity of mysterious Russian soul. Today we'll proudly show you some poems about Russian winter by the best Russian poets in English translation. Enjoy!
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| --21-12-2011-- |
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Ural Writers: Charming Myths and Severe Realities in Russian Literature
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| The Urals region is rich in talented people in different spheres of Russian life. And literature is not an exception to that rule. Ural nature inspires for creation of mystical or fairy-tale stories, Ural mode of life and traditions add ethnic flavour to the books and Ural rich history allows to create truly epic and dramatic novels. So, no wonder that Ural literature is so stands out against the whole mass of Russian literature. This article tells you about the most outstanding writers, who lived and worked in the Urals region.
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| --21-09-2011-- |
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"Live Fast, Die Young" - 10 Russian Celebrities Gone Too Soon
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| They weren't able to stay in this world a little longer. But their short life was full of events and achievements. They enriched Russia with their talents and remained in history and people's memory. There is a list of 10 young Russian celebrities who died being below the age of 30, inclusive.
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| --29-08-2011-- |
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Russian Nobel Laureates
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| The full list of Russian Nobel laureates, including short information about them and links to the big biographic and theme articles from our site.
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| --12-08-2011-- |
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Russian Proverbs and Sayings
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| Russian proverbs and sayings are keen winged expressions created by Russian people, or translated from ancient written sources and borrowed from literary works; they express wise ideas and thoughts in concise and witty form.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
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| The Captain's Daughter (Kapitanskaya dochka)- historical novel written by Alexander Pushkin.
It is a common knowledge that the poetry of Alexander Pushkin cannot be translated well. That’s why Pushkin is not so famous abroad as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. But there are some novels, written in prose, that are worth reading to understand the great gift of the greatest Russian national poet.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Russian Books for Children
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| The account of Russian writers’ world-known works addressed to children and youth should be started from the first third of the 19th century.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Golden Age of Russian Poetry
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| The sparkling term Golden Age is referred to the first half, or to be more exact, the first forty years of the 19th century. This period is remarkable for an unprecedented upsurge of creativity illuminated by the genius of Alexander Pushkin. It was the poetry of the early 19th century that turned to be the impetus, which still goes on driving Russian literature forth
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Silver Age of Russian Poetry
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| With the end of the 19th century “the Golden Age” of Russian literature finished giving place to a crucial stage that later went down into history under the beautiful name of the Silver Age. It engendered a great flight of Russian culture, at the same time becoming a beginning of its tragic fall down.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Literature in Post-Soviet Time
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| Mikhail Gorbachev’s assumption of office in 1985 and the following epoch of glasnost (i.e. publicity) in Soviet mass media, including press, brought about sweeping changes into Russian literature.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Russian Literature during Thaw and Stagnation (1960s-1970s)
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| In the early 1960s the demand for greater freedom of artistic expression in literature and arts manifested itself with new power, especially by efforts of “the angry young men”, the most well-known of whom became poets Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko and Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Russian Literature under Stalinist Regime
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| Stalin’s strengthening of his dictatorship in the early 1930s predetermined total submission of literature and art. In 1932 the Central Committee ordered to dismiss all literary associations and establish a single all-national Union of Soviet Writers, which was founded two years later at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Post-Revolutionary Literature in Russia
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| The first turbulent years after 1917, when in accord with new social forces released by overthrow of autocracy there appeared numerous confronting literary groupings, were the only revolutionary period of literature development in the Soviet Union.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Great Reforms and 19th Century Literature of Realism
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| Unusual flourishing of Russian realistic literature in the second half of the 19th century was going on against the background of social and political distemper that started in the 1840s, under the reign of Nicholas I (1825–1855).
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Romanticism and 19th Century Literature
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| The first forty years of the 19th century are called the Golden Age of Russian poetry, and it is certainly due to the greatest Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837), whose first triumph was the poem Ruslan and Lyudmila (1820).
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Search for National Identity - Russian Literature of the 18th Century
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| The inevitable consequence of Russian and West European literatures drawing together was that the former, being less mature fell under the influence if the latter as a more developed one. With the introduction of a more refined lifestyle in the courts of the post-Peter the First epoch the encouraging of sciences and arts became sort of a fashion. Subtle poetry starts to be appreciated.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Church Influence and Old Russian Literature
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| As compared to West European countries Rus’ adopted Christianity rather late, not before the 10th century. Initial development of Russian literature was under the influence of Byzantium, i.e. the Eastern Roman Empire with the capital of Constantinople.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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More about Russian Folk Tales
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| Tales can be divided into three groups by their subject-matter: fairytales with traces of mythology, tales about animals, who speak and act like people, and tales of manners.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: Mikhaylovskoye and Its Charms
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| They say if you are unwilling to leave and wish to stay longer then you have surely understood Alexander Pushkin’s love for this place.
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| --15-08-2011-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: Yasnaya Polyana - Where Nature Inspired Leo Tolstoy
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| Leî Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana estate is a place where one could clearly see and feel, how the gems of Russian nature can etch into one's heart.
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History of Russian literature
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| Great Russian poets and writers have always been the voice of this people's conscience and soul, and had to suffer for it.
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Lenin Still the Most Translated Author
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| Father of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, has ranked the fifth in a list of the most translated authors in the world.
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Great Russian Book Influences American Rock Musicians
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| Legendary American rock star Patti Smith has recorded her new album, inspired by the Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita".
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| --10-04-2012-- |
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Illustrations to “War and Peace” Exhibited in Lipetsk
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| The exhibition of illustrations to the famous novel “War and Peace” by the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy takes place at the Regional Art Gallery in Lipetsk. It is devoted to the 200th anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812.
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| --05-03-2012-- |
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The Greatest Russian Poet Died 175 Years Ago
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| On February 10, Russia marked 175th anniversary of the legendary Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's death.
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| --13-02-2012-- |
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Quizz on Russian Literature from The Guardian
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| The Guardian newspaper offered its readers to take a test on their knowledge of Russian literature as part of its culture section.
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| --20-01-2012-- |
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Russian Booker of the Decade Finds its Winner
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| The Russian Booker Prize of the Decade, a prestigious literary award, has been given to a Russian writer and philologist Aleksander Chudakov, posthumously.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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One of the Most Important Book Fairs Opens its Doors
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| The 13th International Book Fair "Non/fiction" starts its work on November 30, in the Central House of Artists, Moscow.
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| --30-11-2011-- |
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"Big Book-2011" Was Chosen Yesterday
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| Laureates of the prestigious "Big Book-2011" literary award were announced on November 29, in Moscow.
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| --30-11-2011-- |
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Russian Book of the Decade to Be Chosen in December
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| The Russian Booker Prize of the Decade award has chosen a short-list of five finalists, which were previously shortlisted for the Booker prize in years from 2001 to 2010.
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| --24-11-2011-- |
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Russia Marks 190th Birthday Anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| Today Russia celebrates 190th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the great Russian classic writer and philosopher.
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| --11-11-2011-- |
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Alexander Pushkin Monument Unveiled in Baghdad
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| A monument to the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was unveiled in Iraq, in the University of Baghdad.
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| --26-10-2011-- |
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New Award for Translators is Founded
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| On the 6th of October, a recently opened the Insitute of Translation presented a new award "Read Russia", which will honour the best translators from the Russian into foreign languages.
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| --11-10-2011-- |
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Kira Knightley to Become Anna Karenina
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| The Working Title Films company has started the filming of the screen version of Lev Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" book. Famous Hollywood actors Kira Knightley and Jude Law are to play the main roles.
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| --06-10-2011-- |
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Russian Writer Is Nominated to Be Nobel Laureate
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| Famous Russian writer Victor Pelevin is included to the list of pretenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011. Bookmakers estimate his chances as 50 to 1.
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| --28-09-2011-- |
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Edward Kochergin Takes Dovlatov Award
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| Petersburg writer and theatre artist Edward Kochergin has become the winner of the Sergei Dovlatov Award.
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| --05-09-2011-- |
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Bloggers Request to Award Russian Booker of Decade to Ruben Gonzalez Gallego
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| Bloggers have addressed open letters to jury members and winners of the Russian Booker award with the request to award Booker of Decade to Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego, who has recently got into an accident in Washington.
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| --25-08-2011-- |
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Best Book of Decade Announced in Moscow
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| According to the Super National Bestseller Award, the best book of the last decade is Zakhar Prilepin’s novel “The Sin”.
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| --01-06-2011-- |
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