Posted on April 18, 2017
What do you want to know about Russian grammar but are afraid to ask? Come fill in the gaps! Continue to develop the expression of your own opinions in clear, Read More
Posted on April 22, 2016
Author Tatyana Tolstaya asks, “Woman, exactly what are you?” The poetry and prose of Russian women writers attempt to answer her very difficult question. Their works reveal the many overlapping Read More
Posted on April 22, 2016
Explore some of the best Golden-Age Russian fiction, ranging from short stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, and Chekhov to excerpts from great novels by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy. Through close Read More
Posted on November 3, 2015
A powerhouse of young talent, the “Sreda” [Wednesday] circle met from 1899-1916 and included artists, musicians, and quite a few notable names in literature at the time, such as Ivan Read More
Posted on November 3, 2015
In this course students develop their reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills in Russian by studying the impact of the 1917 revolution and its aftermath on Russian literature. After examining Read More
Posted on March 16, 2015
The Russian writer Evgenij Zamyatin depicts a future “world of square roots of minus one” in his banned novel We, written as a response to the October Revolution and its Read More
Posted on March 16, 2015
Culture is a system of ideas expressed in linguistic, religious, literary, artistic, social, scientific, and technological forms, fleshed out by creative people. Some of these ideas are constants that persist Read More
Posted on March 16, 2015
Read entertaining and interesting 20th-century Russian short stories from a variety of genres (detective fiction, satire, tales of adventure, children’s literature) to improve your reading skills and expand your vocabulary. Read More
Posted on March 16, 2015
Continue your study of Russian at the 200 level, expanding on the knowledge and developing the skills acquired over previous semesters of study. Students will practice listening, speaking, reading, and Read More
