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An anthology of Russian literature from earliest writings to modern fiction : introduction to a culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rzhevsky, Nicholas (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2005
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The tale of Igor
  • Boris and Gleb
  • The life of Alexis, holy man of God
  • The life of Avvakum / Avvakum
  • Felicity / Gavrila Derzhavin
  • The firebird and Princess Vasilisa
  • Poor Liza / Nikolai Karamzin
  • The bronze horseman : a Petersburg tale / Alexander Pushkin
  • Borodino / Mikhail Lermontov
  • Taman : from A hero of our time / Mikhail Lermontov
  • Boris Godunov / Alexander Pushkin
  • The queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin
  • The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol
  • Bezhin meadow / Ivan Turgenev
  • The meek woman : a fantastic story / Fedor Dostoevsky
  • Lefty : a skaz about cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and a steel flea / Nikolai Leskov
  • Holstomer : the story of a horse / Leo Tolstoy
  • The lady with the lapdog / Anton Chekhov
  • The cherry orchard : act 1 / Anton Chekhov
  • A puppet show / Alexander Blok
  • The gray-eyed king / Anna Akhmatova
  • Listen! / Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • I ask the mirror for a glimpse-- / Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Verses about Moscow / Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Barely a tenth / Valery Briusov
  • The escape from Petersburg / Andrei Bely
  • The king / Isaak Babel
  • Farewell, my friend, farewell-- / Sergei Esenin
  • The union of the sword and the plow : from The twelve chairs / Ilf and Petrov
  • Virgin soil upturned : chapter 7, book 1 / Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Crime and punishment : a comedy in one act / Mikhail Zoshchenko
  • We live without feeling-- / Osip Mandelstam
  • The last toast / Anna Akhmatova
  • Makarov and Peterson : no. 3 / Daniil Kharms
  • Chapayev anecdotes
  • Black magic and its exposure : from The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Hamlet / Boris Pasternak
  • Morning exercise / Vladimir Vysotsky
  • Wooden horses / Fedor Abramov.