"Aleksandr Lavrov, Elena Fanailova and Alexandra Petrova. Andrei Bely Prize The Andrei Bely Prize (Russian: Премия Андрея Белого; ""Premiya Andreya Belovo"") is the oldest independent literary prize awarded in Russia. It was established in 1978 by the staff of ""Hours"", the largest samizdat literary journal in Leningrad, to recognize excellence in three categories: prose, poetry, and theory. Among its founders were Boris Ivanov, Boris Ostanin, Viktor Krivulin, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and other eminent figures of uncensored literature. The prize was named for Andrei Bely, whose influence spanned Russian poetry, prose, and humanitarianism. Materially, the prize consisted of an apple, a single"
"Pushkin Prize The Pushkin Prize () was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). The prize was awarded to the Russian who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence. The prize was discontinued during the Soviet period. It was restored in 1989 by Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg. In 1995 the State Pushkin Prize was established by Boris Yeltsin's decree, with Vladimir Sokolov being the first laureate. Both lasted till 2005. In 2005 the New Pushkin Prize was established by the Aleksander Zhukov Fund, as well as"
"the Pushkin and Mikhaylovskoye museums. In 2017 the International Creative Contest ""World Pushkin"" was established by the Russkiy Mir Foundation and the A. Pushkin State Literary Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve Boldino REGULATIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE CONTEST ""WORLD PUSHKIN"". Pushkin Prize The Pushkin Prize () was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). The prize was awarded to the Russian who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence. The prize was discontinued during the Soviet period. It was restored in 1989 by Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg."
"by ONE so far include the Man Booker Prize shortlisted Pushkin Press Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Antal Szerb, Paul Morand and Yasushi Inoue, as well as award-winning contemporary writers, including Andrés Neuman, Edith Pearlman, Ayelet-Gundar-Goshen, Eka Kurniawan and Ryu Murakami. Pushkin Press was founded in 1997 by Melissa Ulfane whose ambition was to bring literature in translation to the UK. Pushkin Press is notable for rediscovering less known European"
"Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; ; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. His matrilineal great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial"
"much of its relevance. Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; ; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. His matrilineal great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee,"
"the country from its neighbors. He was awarded in 2015 the Premio Gregor von Rezzori for this novel. Vladimir Sorokin Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin (; born 7 August 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature. Sorokin was born on 7 August 1955 in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, near Moscow. In 1972 he made his literary debut with a publication in the newspaper ""Za kadry neftyanikov"" (, ""For the workers in the petroleum industry""). He studied at the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow and graduated in 1977 as an"
"Pushkin Press Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Antal Szerb, Paul Morand and Yasushi Inoue, as well as award-winning contemporary writers, including Andrés Neuman, Edith Pearlman, Ayelet-Gundar-Goshen, Eka Kurniawan and Ryu Murakami. Pushkin Press was founded in 1997 by Melissa Ulfane whose ambition was to bring literature in translation to the UK. Pushkin Press is notable for rediscovering less known European classics of the twentieth century and is largely responsible for"
"Russian Booker Prize The Russian Booker Prize (, ""Russian Booker"") is a Russian literary award modelled after the Man Booker Prize. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine in 1992. The country's premier literary prize, it is awarded to the best work of fiction written in the Russian language each year as decided by a panel of judges, irrespective of the writer's citizenship. , the chair of the Russian Booker Prize Committee is British journalist George Walden. The prize is the first Russian non-governmental literary award since the country's 1917 Revolution. Each year, a jury chooses"
"the greatest writers in Russian history. This period, known also as the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, began with Alexander Pushkin, who is considered the founder of the modern Russian literary language and often described as the ""Russian Shakespeare"". It continued with the poetry of Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolay Nekrasov, dramas of Alexander Ostrovsky and Anton Chekhov, and the prose of Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have been described by literary critics as the greatest novelists of all time. By the 1880s, the age of the great novelists was over, and short fiction and poetry"
"he had learned from Derzhavin, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Karamzin and Krylov: Pushkin is usually credited with developing Russian literature. He is seen as having originated the highly-nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him, and he is also credited with substantially augmenting the Russian lexicon. Whenever he found gaps in the Russian vocabulary, he devised calques. His rich vocabulary and highly-sensitive style are the foundation for modern Russian literature. His accomplishments set new records for development of the Russian language and culture. He became the father of Russian literature in the 19th century, marking the highest achievements of the"
"and Dutch were published in book form; several poems were also translated to German, French, Japanese, Hebrew, Czech and Bulgarian. His numerous awards include the Russian National Award (1996) and the prestigious Pushkin Prize for poetry, bestowed on him by Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2001. Also Alexander Kushner Alexander Semyonovich Kushner (, born 14 September 1936, Leningrad) is a Russian poet from Saint Petersburg. Kushner was born in Leningrad into a Russian-Jewish family; his father was a military engineer. He graduated from Herzen University, and later, between 1959 and 1969, taught Russian literature. After that he became a full-time"
"Poland was a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture, which began around 1820, coinciding with the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822. It ended with the suppression of the Polish-Lithuanian January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1864. The latter event ushered in a new era in Polish culture known as ""Positivism"". The 19th century is traditionally referred to as the ""Golden Era"" of Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Vasily Zhukovsky and later that of his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Pushkin"
"debate about the Russian-speaking world"". The prize is for a book published in English, but translations from other languages, including of course Russian, are encouraged and actively sought. Pushkin House, London Pushkin House () is the UK's oldest independent Russian cultural centre. Founded in 1954 in a house in Notting Hill by a group of émigré Russian friends, led by Maria Mikhailovna Kullmann (Zernova). Their aim was to create a welcoming meeting-place ""‘for the enjoyment, understanding and promotion of Russian culture in all its forms, and for the exchange of views in a lively, informal atmosphere, with freedom of speech"
"To the Slanderers of Russia To the Slanderers of Russia () is a patriotic poem by Alexander Pushkin, published in 1831. The poem was written during the 1830–1831 Polish uprising. The immediate reason for writing it was that some members of the French parliament had called for French armed intervention on the side of Polish insurgents against the Russian army. In the poem, Pushkin explains that from the Russian point of view the uprising is just a part of the ages old quarrel between relatives (Slavs). He tells the French to leave Slavs alone cause the eventual outcome of all"
"The Gypsies (poem) The Gypsies () is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, originally written in Russian in 1824 and first published in 1827. The last of Pushkin's four 'Southern Poems' written during his exile in the south of the Russian Empire, ""The Gypsies"" is also considered to be the most mature of these Southern poems, and has been praised for originality and its engagement with psychological and moral issues. The poem has inspired at least eighteen operas and several ballets. The poem opens with an establishment of the setting in Bessarabia and a colorful, lively description of the activities"
"and developed in the world, with some of the most famous literary works belonging to it. Russia's literary history dates back to the 10th century; in the 18th century its development was boosted by the works of Mikhail Lomonosov and Denis Fonvizin, and by the early 19th century a modern native tradition had emerged, producing some of the greatest writers of all time. This period and the Golden Age of Russian Poetry began with Alexander Pushkin, considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature and often described as the """"Russian Shakespeare"" or the ""Russian Goethe"""". It continued in the"
"either the reader or myself."""" The admission may have done Chekhov a disservice, since early manuscripts reveal that he often wrote with extreme care, continually revising. Grigorovich's advice nevertheless inspired a more serious, artistic ambition in the twenty-six-year-old. In 1888, with a little string-pulling by Grigorovich, the short story collection ""At Dusk"" (""V Sumerkakh"") won Chekhov the coveted Pushkin Prize ""for the best literary production distinguished by high artistic worth."" In 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe. On his return, he began the novella-length"
"Fate""), expresses his deep ambivalence about the union with Russia in the phrase ""what pleasure does the nightingale receive from honour if it is in a cage?"" Georgia became a theme in Russian literature as well. In 1829, Russia's greatest poet Alexander Pushkin visited the country and his experience is reflected in several of his lyrics. His younger contemporary, Mikhail Lermontov, was exiled to the Caucasus in 1840. The region appears as a land of exotic adventure in Lermontov's famous novel ""A Hero of Our Time"" and he also celebrated Georgia's wild, mountainous landscape in the long poem ""Mtsyri"", about"
"on the Shores of the Lethe"", 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (""The Bard"", 1811; ""Svetlana"", 1813) and Nikolay Karamzin (""Poor Liza"", 1792; ""Julia"", 1796; ""Martha the Mayoress"", 1802; ""The Sensitive and the Cold"", 1803). However the principal exponent of Romanticism in Russia is Alexander Pushkin (""The Prisoner of the Caucasus"", 1820–1821; ""The Robber Brothers"", 1822; ""Ruslan and Ludmila"", 1820; ""Eugene Onegin"", 1825–1832). Pushkin's work influenced many writers in the 19th century and led to his eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. Other Russian Romantic poets include Mikhail Lermontov (""A Hero of Our Time"", 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (""Silentium!"", 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky (""Eda"", 1826),"
"Later literary historians viewed Maykov's historical dramas favourably, crediting the author for neutrality and insight. Maykov's antiquity ""lives and breathes, it is anything but dull,"" wrote critic F. Zelinsky in 1908. For the ""Two Worlds"" Maykov received The Russian Academy of Sciences' Pushkin Prize in 1882. In 1858 Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko published the first Maykov anthology ""Poems by Ap. Maykov"". In 1879 it was expanded and re-issued by Vladimir Meshchersky. ""The Complete Maykov"" came out in 1884 (its second edition following in 1893). In the 1880s Maykov's poetry was dominated by religious and nationalistic themes and ideas. According to I. Yampolsky,"
"Andrei Dmitriev (four, winning once) and Alexey Slapovsky (four, no wins). No person has won the award more than once. * Winners * Winners * Winners Russian Booker Prize The Russian Booker Prize (, ""Russian Booker"") is a Russian literary award modelled after the Man Booker Prize. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine in 1992. The country's premier literary prize, it is awarded to the best work of fiction written in the Russian language each year as decided by a panel of judges, irrespective of the writer's citizenship. , the chair of the Russian Booker"
"culture. For most of the 20th century, Marxist ideology shaped the culture of the Soviet Union, where Russia, i.e. the Russian SFSR, was the largest and leading part. Russian culture is varied and unique in many respects. It has a rich history and a long tradition in all of the arts, especially in fields of literature and philosophy, classical music and ballet, architecture and painting, cinema and animation, all of which had considerable influence on world culture. Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova,"
"accused Pushkin of betrayal of their formerly common ideals of freedom, as expressed by the Decembrists. Pushkin started writing a bitter reply, """", published only posthumously. To the Slanderers of Russia To the Slanderers of Russia () is a patriotic poem by Alexander Pushkin, published in 1831. The poem was written during the 1830–1831 Polish uprising. The immediate reason for writing it was that some members of the French parliament had called for French armed intervention on the side of Polish insurgents against the Russian army. In the poem, Pushkin explains that from the Russian point of view the uprising"
"Hoàng Thúy Toàn Hoàng Thúy Toàn (born 1938), often credited as Thuý Toàn, is a Vietnamese writer and literary translator. He was awarded the Order of Friendship by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in 2010 in recognition of his Vietnamese translations of the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. Toàn was born in Phù Lưu Village, Từ Sơn Town, Bắc Ninh Province, and went abroad for higher education, first to China in 1951 and then to the Soviet Union in 1954. He graduated from the V.I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1961. After his graduation, Toàn returned to Vietnam. He went on"
"on Bunin's behalf and maintained a regular correspondence with Ivan and Vera up until their respective deaths. Ivan Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; ; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as ""Bunin brocade"", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. Best known for his short novels ""The Village"" (1910) and ""Dry Valley"""
"Russian novels of the 19th century, e.g. Leo Tolstoy's (Лев Толсто́й) ""War and Peace"", contain entire paragraphs and even pages in French with no translation given, with an assumption that educated readers would not need one. The modern literary language is usually considered to date from the time of Alexander Pushkin () in the first third of the 19th century. Pushkin revolutionized Russian literature by rejecting archaic grammar and vocabulary (so-called — ""high style"") in favor of grammar and vocabulary found in the spoken language of the time. Even modern readers of younger age may only experience slight difficulties understanding"
"Vasyl Shkliar Vasyl Mykolayovych Shkliar (; born 10 June 1951 in Hanzhalivka, Lysianka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast) is a Ukrainian writer and political activist. He is one of the most well known and widely read, contemporary Ukrainian authors. Some observers have even named him the “Father of the Ukrainian Bestseller”. The Committee of the Shevchenko National Prize declared him a Shevchenko Prize Laureate in 2011. He was born in the village of Hanzhalivka, Lysianka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, where he began school. Subsequently, the family moved to the town of Zvenyhorodka, where Shkliar completed his tenth year of schooling with the award"
"programme of Russian literature, poetry, art, cinema, music, theatre and dance, history, philosophy and current affairs. Events include lectures, exhibitions, films, concerts, readings, panel discussions, debates and its celebrated annual Book Prize. Pushkin House is a politically independent, Registered UK Charity, owned and run by the Pushkin House Trust. While the original endowment set up more than half a century ago ensures its independence, Pushkin House relies on ticket sales and unconditional donations from the public to maintain quality programming. Pushkin House has existed in London since 1954 and has borne witness to dramatic changes in the relationship between Britain"
"Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Arthur Rubinstein, Dmitri Shostakovich, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter, and Gidon Kremer. In 1999, by the Act of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of France, Yuri Bashmet was granted the rank of the Officer of Arts and Literature. In the same time the Prime Minister of Lithuania marked his invaluable impact to the Art by granting Bashmet the highest honor of the Republic of Lithuania. In 2000 the President of Italy granted him an honor ""For Contribution to Motherland"", and in 2002, the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin presented him the honor ""For"
"Chef (the third most senior army rank) in charge of the building of sea forts and canals in Russia. Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at 15. When he finished school, as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene. After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg. In 1820, he published his first long poem, ""Ruslan and Ludmila"", with much controversy about its subject and style. While at"
"philosophy and politics. Events include lectures and talks, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, films, concerts and readings. Besides its own events, Pushkin House welcomes and encourages collaboration with other institutions and groups dedicated to Russian culture. The House currently hosts lectures run by the Pushkin Club and the GB-Russia Society, amongst other collaborators. Regular Russian language courses are provided by the Russian Language Centre, located on the top floor of Pushkin House. Creative partnerships are being established with major museums and libraries in Russia. The Pushkin House Book Prize was launched in 2013 with an aim to ""encourage public understanding and intelligent"
"poem ""Ode to Liberty"", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama ""Boris Godunov"". His novel in verse, ""Eugene Onegin"", was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment, who attempted to seduce the poet's wife, Natalia Pushkina. Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a"