Tag: Russian Literature

April 10, 2018

Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry: An Introduction

In celebration of National Poetry Month, today we’re introducing you to Konstantin Batyushkov’s Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, presented and translated by Peter France. Remember to enter our book giveaway for a chance to win a free copy! • •...

December 21, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Existentialism, the Russian Soul, and the Modern Metropolis

Ani Kodzhabasheva is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. “Only in Piter [St. Petersburg] may a man really know himself—whether he is a real human being, a half-human, or a swine. If he suffers here, he is a human being.”...

December 20, 2017

St. Petersburg, Capital of the Nineteenth Century

“Burkov House is the whole of Petersburg.” Alexei Remizov The protagonist of Sisters of the Cross, Marakulin, falls on hard times and leaves his nice apartment in the Burkov House to move into a rented room three floors up. This...

December 18, 2017

Book Giveaway! Sisters of the Cross

“Sisters of the Cross is a tale set in Burkov’s boardinghouse—a microcosm of Petersburg and the whole of Russia—filled with minor civil servants, wronged women, and holy wanderers, accident-prone circus artistes set to conquer the heart of Europe, the indifferent...

August 25, 2017

Capturing the tone in the translation of City Folk and Country Folk

Elaine Wilson, a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University, on Nora Favorov’s translation of Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk.

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