On November 9 each year, Russia celebrates the birthday of the famous 19th century novelist. He was born in 1818 and, for ...

Alexander Pushkin’s fantastical epic The Bronze Horseman marked a whole new epoch in Russian literature, ushering in a ...

It turns out that there were vampires among the 19th century nobility in Russia. Only they had a different name.

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

The mission of the Russian section of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages is to train students in the literature, language, culture, and history of Russia. Our concentration provides all ...

Vladimir Putin, the ruler of Kremlin, advocates for popularising Russian language and literature in Ukraine's ...

In a memoir released eight months after he died in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny never loses faith that ...

Setting these writings and the responses of the Russian readership in historical and cultural context, Susan Layton examines ways that literature underwrote imperialism. But her study also reveals the ...

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Lovers of 19 th-century Russian literature have likely never heard the name Avdotya Panaeva, even though she traveled in the same literary circles as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Born in 1819 and raised in ...

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Russian language and literature encompasses research topics ranging from historical linguistics and general linguistic theory to sociological phenomena of the contemporary language, and from the ...