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Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov (1711-1765)
- Scientist, scholar, and poet
- Founded Moscow University
- Ode of 1774
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826)
- Letter to Alexander Alekseevich Pleshcheev 1796
- Founder of Russian sentimentalism
- History of the Russian State (12 volume)
- Letters of a Russian Traveler (1791)
- Poor Liza (1792)
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Ivan Andreevich KryLov (1769-1844)
- Fables, journalist, playwright, and translator
- The Crow and the Fox
- The Swan, the Crayfish and the Pike
- The Cuckoo and the Rooster
- Trishka’s Coat
- The Curiosity Lover
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The Quartet
- The Monkey and the Spectacles
- The Cat and the Cook
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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
- Russian national idol
- The Moor of Peter the Great
- Boris Godunov
- The Chronicles
- To Chaadaev (1818)
- A Prisoner (1822)
- Conversation between a Publisher and a Poet (1824)
- Winter Evening (1825)
- October 19th (1825)
- The Prophet (1826)
- To my Nanny (1827)
- Winter Morning (1829) – memorized in schools
- I loved you (1829) – memorized in schools
- Madonna (1830)
- Elegy (1830)
- A Hero (1830)
- Autumn (1833)
- Eugene Onegin (1823-1830) novel inverse
- The Captain’s daughter (1833-1836)
- The Queen of Spades (1833)
- A Trip to Arzrum (1836)
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Mikhail lurevich Lermontev (1814-1841)
- The death of a poet (1837)
- Beggar (1830)
- A Wish (1832)
- The Sail (1832)
- The Deserter (1838)
- Meditation (1838)
- The Demon (1829-1838)
- To AO Smirnova (1840)
- Mountain Summits (from Goethe) (1840)
- Mtsyri (1840)
- Motherland (1841)
- Tamara (1841)
- Agreement (1841)
- A Hero of out time (1840)
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Fedor Ivanovich Tiutchev (1803-1873)
- Spring Thunderstorm (1828)
- Spring Waters (1830)
- Cicero (1830)
- Silence (1830)
- KB (1870)
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Afanasii Afanasievich Fet (1820-1892)
- I came to you with a greeting (1843)
- A whisper, the faintest breath (1850)
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Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878)
- Poet and Citizen (1856)
- To the Sowers (1876)
- Contemplation at the Front Door (1858)
- A Knight for an Hour (1862)
- To Dobroliubov’s Memory (1864)
- A forgotten village (1855)
- Peasant Children (1861)
- Red-Nosed Frost (1863)
- Who lives well in Russia (1863-1877)
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852)
- Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka (1831-1832)
- Dead Souls (1835-1852)
- Mirgorod (1835)
- Viy (1835)
- Taras Bulba (1835)
- The Diary of a Madman
- The Overcoat (1835)
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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870)
- Founded revolutionary periodicals
- Polar star
- The bell
- Works
- The Past and Thoughts (1868)
- Who is to Blame? (1847)
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Advocated Russian culture in the West
- Notes of a Hunter (1852)
- Mumu (1852)
- Fathers and Sons (1862)
- The Nest of the Gentry (1859)
- The Diary of a Superfluous Man
- Poems in Prose
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Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The Insulted and Injured (1861)
- Crime and Punishment (1866)
- The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- The Idiot (1868)
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Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828-1889)
- What is to be done? (1863)
- Vera Pavlovna
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- War and Peace (1869)
- Anna Karenina (1877)
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
- “All my life, I squeezed the slave out of me, drop by drop.”
- The Plaintive Book (1884)
- Letter to a Learned Neighbor (1880)
- Van’ka
- To my Grandfather , to the village
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1. Alexander Alkesandrovich Blok (1880-1921)
- a. Major figure of Russian Symbolism
- b. Considered one of the best Russian poets of the 20th century
- c. Collection of several hundred love poems- “Verses about a Beautiful Lady”
- d. “The Twelve” (1918)- narrative poem about the Revolution
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2. Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895-1925)
- a. One of the leaders of imaginism
- b. Bohemian life, alcoholism, scandalous love affairs, committed suicide
- c. “Letter to My Mother” (1924), “We Leave Slowly” (1924), “Letter to a Woman” (1924).
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3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
- a. Leader of Russian Futurism and avant-garde
- b. Denounced bourgeois values, embraced Revolution
- c. “The Backbone Flute”, “A Cloud in Pants”, “Man”, Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Tragedy
- d. “Vladimir Il’ich Lenin”
- e. Committed suicide; proclaimed by Stalin to be the best Soviet poet
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4. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
- a. Simple poems; hard to translate
- b. Joined the literary movement called Acmeism; found alien by Soviets; work forbidden
- c. Translated poetry instead
- d. Collection of poems, Evening: “I wrung my hands under the dark veil” (1912), “Song of the Last Tryst” (1912)
- e. Confusion (1913), “Requiem” (1935-40)
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5. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) Prose and Poetry writer
- a. Talked to rain, trees, and clouds
- b. Known for his complex metaphors
- c. Won 1958 Nobel Prize for Doctor Zhivago; caused a political scandal
- d. “February. Get the ink and cry!” (1912), “Feasts” (1913), “Windmills” (1915), “Winter Night”(1946), “Night” (1956), “Hamlet” (1954)
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1. Il’Ia Ilf and Evgenii Petrov (Il’fandPetrov)
- a. Hilarious satirical novels about Ostap Bender
- b. The Twelve Chairs (1927)
- c. Golden Calf (1931)
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2. Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958)
- a. Satirical short stories
- b. “Skaz” technique: imitates someone’s voice
- c. “The Aristocratic Lady,” “The Bathhouse,” “The Fireplace Poker”
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3. Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov
- a. Thought to be “ideologically suspicious”
- b. The Master and Margarita (1940,1966)
- c. The Heart of a Dog (1925)
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4. Arkady and Boris Natanovich Strugatsky
- a. Science fiction for social satire
- b. Monday Begins on Saturday, It is Difficult to be God, Ugly Swans
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1. Konstantin Simonov (1915-1979)
- a. Days and Night – novel about the siege of Stalingrad
- b. Presented an official view of the world in his work
- c. Received 6 Stalin prizes and 1 Lenin prize
- d. Conservative editor of New World, a literary journal (1946-1950, 1954-1958)
- e. Wait for me and I’ll come back (1941) – popular during WWII
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2. Iosif Brodsky (1940-1996)
- a. Part of a group of non-conformist Leningrad poets
- a.i. Admired Anna Akhmatova and her friends
- b. 1964 – arrested and tried for “parasitism” – too independent
- b.i. Sentenced to 5 years of hard labor, then exiled to the Arkhangelsk region
- c. 1972 – expelled from the Soviet Union, went to USA and taught Russian literature
- d. 1987 – won the Nobel Prize
- e. Died in New York and buried in Venice
- f. Wrote “Stanzas” in 1962
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2. Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
- a. Arrested at the end of WWII after his letters, which contained criticism of Stalin, were intercepted by the military
- b. GULag Archipelago (1953-1957) – account of the forced labor system; memorial to the victims of the Soviet regime
- b.i. Includes personal recollections, memoirs of other survivors, and many historic documents
- c. Other novels dedicated to the same topic: The First Circle (1955-1964) and Cancer Ward (1963-1966)
- d. 1970 – won the Nobel Prize for literature
- e. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) – detailed account of a day in a Siberian concentration camp
- f. “Reorganizing Russia” (1990) – article with suggestions about the future of Russia
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First Dynasty of the Russian Princes
Riurik
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What is the Shapka of Monomakh?
- crown russian tsars wore, copied off mongols
- pointed hat with fur and embellished with jewels
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original purpose of moscow kremlin
wall, keep people out
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First tsar of Russia
Ivan IV
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Moscow and St. Petersburg founded
1147, 1703
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2 main things Decemberist opposed to, what changes did they want
- democracy, wanted a constitution
- not crown Nicholas I as tsar
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Ways Peter the great Westernized Russia
- more western type of clothing
- western style architecture
- banned the wearing of beards
- Introduced the Julian calendar
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Main characters of the legend of the grand inquisitor
monk, brother
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year serfdom abolished, results?
1861, may serfs became poorer because they hd to pay off the lands
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Policeman of europe and Tsar-Liberator
Nicholas I, Alexander II
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Lenin's cultural politics based on
socialism
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examples of Stalin's cult of personality?
- importance of great leader
- rewriting history
- propaganda
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3 main economic and cultural developments in the USSR in the 1930s
- Realism
- Rapid Industrialization
- Stalin's 5-year plan
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Years of WWI, one significant battle
- 1939-145
- Battle of Stalingrad
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Anna Akhmatova not leave Russia?
Wanted to document the harsh realities of Soviet life
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First and last president of USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet Union officially dissolved
1991
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
- Boris Godunov
- Khovanshchina
- Night on bald Mountain
- Pictures at an Exhibition
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Peter Il'ich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Symphony no. 4, 5, 6
- Piano Concerto 1, 2, 3
- Sleeping Beauty
- Swan lake
- Queen of Spades
- Nutcracker
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
- The Golden Age
- First Symphony in F minor
- Lady Macbeth
- Leningrad Symphony
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