Explore Russian masterpieces at all levels-characters, plots, scenes, and sometimes even single sentences-with an award-winning Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages.
Topics Covered:
Topics Covered:
- By This Professor
- 01: Origins of Russian Literature
- 02: The Church and the Folk in Old Kiev
- 03: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837
- 04: Exile, Rustic Seclusion, and Onegin
- 05: December's Uprising and Two Poets Meet
- 06: A Poet Contrasts Talent versus Mediocrity
- 07: St. Petersburg Glorified and Death Embraced
- 08: Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852
- 09: Russian Grotesque-Overcoats to Dead Souls
- 10: Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
- 11: Near Mortality, Prison, and an Underground
- 12: Second Wife and a Great Crime Novel Begins
- 13: Inside the Troubled Mind of a Criminal
- 14: The Generation of the Karamazovs
- 15: The Novelistic Presence of Christ and Satan
- 16: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910
- 17: Tale of Two Cities and a Country Home
- 18: Family Life Meets Military Life
- 19: Vengeance Is Mine, Saith the Lord
- 20: Family Life Makes a Comeback
- 21: Tolstoy the Preacher
- 22: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883
- 23: The Stresses between Two Generations
- 24: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904
- 25: M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936
- 26: Literature and Revolution
- 27: The Tribune-Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930
- 28: The Revolution Makes a U-Turn
- 29: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984
- 30: Revolutions and Civil War
- 31: Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958
- 32: Among the Godless-Religion and Family Life
- 33: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960
- 34: The Poet In and Beyond Society
- 35: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Born 1918
