On the occasion of the Nobel Prize in Literature being awarded to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, here’s an annotated list of the cream of Russian literature.

Survey of major works of 19th-century Russian literature by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov and their influence on Western European literary canon. In English. 315.

The series of free online lessons "Read and listen in Russian" is designed for reading and listening practice and intended mostly for upper-intermediate and advanced Russian learners. These lessons include excerpts of works of Russian literature, interesting stories about Russia, Russian cities, Russian traditions

Overview. Whether in literature, music, science, economics or international affairs, it is difficult to overstate the importance of Russia, the world’s largest country in terms of geography.

Professor Presto is the author of Beyond the Flesh: Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation of Sex (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) and of articles and book chapters in the Cambridge History of Women’s Writing in Russia, Russian Literature, Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, and Slavic Review.

The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web) is a full-text digital resource. FEB-web accumulates information in text, audio, visual, and other forms on 11th-20th-century Russian literature, Russian folklore, and the history of Russian literary scholarship and folklore studies.

The Russian language in the world declined after 1991 due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and decrease in the number of Russians in the world and diminution of the total population in Russia (where Russian is an official language), however this has since been reversed.

Russian texts with audio: We have created this collection of texts, all of them recorded, so you can read and listen at the same time.The topics chosen include aspects of the Russian culture but you will also read about food, sports, s, The texts are short, easy to read and with a vocabulary list at the end, so you can focus in important words you should remember.

Slavic languages and literatures, literature and culture of the 20th century, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Remizov, autobiographical prose, history and literature of Russian emigration, Russian literary developments and cultural life of the early 20th century.

Russian literature, the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century. The most celebrated period of Russian literature was the 19th century, which produced, in a remarkably short period, some of the indisputable