"which is inspired by the book. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend, Huck. One such adventure, Tom's whitewashing of a fence, has been adapted into paintings and referenced in other pieces of popular culture. Originally a commercial failure the book ended up being the"
"Saint Petersburg or elsewhere in Russia. The novel has been adapted into various media including opera, film, television, ballet, figure skating and radio drama. The first of many film adaptations was released in 1911 but has not survived. ""Anna Karenina"" is the tragic story of Countess Anna Karenina, a married noblewoman and socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to"
"had real life prototypes, members of the Petrashevsky and Durov's circles (Rudkovsky as Durov, Slobodin as Fyodor Dostoyevsky). Palm's dramas ""Old Landlord"" (1873) and ""Our Friend Neklyuzhev"" (1879), staged by the Aleksandrinsky and Maly Theaters respectively, proved to be very popular with the public. Contemporary critics dismissed them, but in retrospect Russian literary historians see Palm's plays as superior to his prose and poetry. Alexander Palm Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, 2 February [o.s. 21 January] 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - 22 [o.s. 10] November 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright,"
"life in Saint Petersburg on the plight of the poor clerk in a society obsessed with hierarchy and status also became an important theme for authors such as Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoyevsky. Another important feature of early Saint Petersburg literature is its mythical element, which incorporates urban legends and popular ghost stories, as the stories of Pushkin and Gogol included ghosts returning to Saint Petersburg to haunt other characters as well as other fantastical elements, creating a surreal and abstract image of Saint Petersburg. 20th-century writers from Saint Petersburg, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn Rand, Andrey Bely and Yevgeny Zamyatin,"
"upper middle class parents in St Petersburg before and during the Russian Revolution. Marya witnesses birds transform into handsome young men who marry her sisters, and meets the council of domovoi or brownies who live in her house along with the other families that get assigned to live there by the Bolsheviks, and cherishes her secret knowledge that magic exists in the world. She also meets an old woman named Likho who teaches her the mythology of the world, and of the Tsars and Tsarinas who rule various aspects of reality such as life, death, salt, night, water, birds and"
"the novel, remarking that ""Only ""Crime and Punishment"" was read in 1866"" and that Dostoevsky had managed to portray a Russian person aptly and realistically. Otherwise, it received a mixed reception from critics, with most of the negative responses coming from nihilists. Grigory Eliseev of the radical magazine ""The Contemporary"" called the novel a ""fantasy according to which the entire student body is accused without exception of attempting murder and robbery"". The novel's protagonist, the 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, returns to Russia after several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by Saint Petersburg society for his trusting nature and naivety, he"
"in St. Petersburg, that it had pleased the upper society. ""What are you doing?"" said his protector, the Administrator of Police; ""you see how they take the play here; you will have to agree with this opinion, or else you will get yourself into terrible trouble.""D. S. Mirsky writes, ""But his memory after his death was deservedly reverenced by the new intelligentsia as that of a pioneer and, in a sense, a martyr."" Nikolay Polevoy is the main hero of ""Izlomanny Arshin"" (""Broken Arshin"") novel by Samuil Lurie. Nikolai Polevoy Nikolai Alekseevich Polevoy (Russian Никола́й Алексе́евич Полево́й) (-) was a"
"main characters; his great-grandparents would have been of the generation of Prince Vassily or Count Ilya Rostov. The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg, at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and confidante to the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main characters are introduced as they enter the salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, who is dying after a series of strokes. Pierre is about to become embroiled in a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his father's expense following his mother's death, Pierre"
"Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Journey From Petersburg to Moscow (in Russian: Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву), published in 1790, was the most famous work by the Russian writer Aleksander Nikolayevich Radishchev. The work, often described as a Russian ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", is a polemical study of the problems in the Russia of Catherine the Great: serfdom, the powers of the nobility, the issues in government and governance, social structure and personal freedom and liberty. The book starts from an epigraph about ""The Beast who is ""enormous, disgusting, a-hundred-maws and barking"""" meaning the Russian Empire. The book was immediately"
"years later in 1927, Gleb Vaganov, a general for the Bolsheviks who now controls Russia, announces to the gloomy Russians that the now-poor Saint Petersburg has been renamed Leningrad, and he promises a bright and peaceful future. The Russians protest this change but are uplifted by a rumor that Anastasia may have survived the Bolshevik attacks. Two wanted con men, the handsome young Dmitry and an ex-member of the Imperial Court named Vlad Popov, hear the rumors and brainstorm “the biggest con in history”: they will groom a naive girl to become Anastasia in order to extract money from the"
"Viktor Ostrogorsky Viktor Petrovich Ostrogorsky , (16 February 1840, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, — 31 January 1902, Valday, Novgorod Governorate, Imperial Russia was a Russian writer, pedagogue, publisher, translator and social activist. A Saint Petersburg University alumnus, Ostrogorsky taught Russian language and literature in numerous schools and institutes, including the Saint Petersburg Institute of Performing Arts. As a publisher, he's made himself a name by launching the series of cheap, accessible books for the poor, including ""From the People's Life"" (Из народного быта, an 1883 collection of short stories, folk tales, songs and sayings), ""Good People"" (Хорошие люди, 1884) and"
"Alexander Palm Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, 2 February [o.s. 21 January] 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - 22 [o.s. 10] November 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are ""Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family"" (1874, novel) and ""Our Friend Neklyuzhev"" (1879, drama). Alexander Ivanovich Palm"
"different literary heroes, and if there is, in fact, no ""real Onegin"". Tatyana, still brokenhearted by the loss of Onegin, is convinced by her parents to live with her aunt in Moscow in order to find a suitor. Several years pass, and the scene shifts to St. Petersburg. Onegin has come to attend the most prominent balls and interact with the leaders of old Russian society. He sees the most beautiful woman, who captures the attention of all and is central to society's whirl, and he realizes that it is the same Tatyana whose love he had once spurned. Now"
"a miracle that changes the lives of those who encounter it. The most notable of his novels include: Alexander Grin Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky (better known by his pen name, Aleksandr Grin, , August 23, 1880 – July 8, 1932) was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor (Grin's fans often refer to this land as Grinlandia). Most of his writings deal with sea, adventures, and love. Aleksandr Grin was born Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky () in a suburb of Vyatka in 1880, the"
"я сделался учителем, 1895). Viktor Ostrogorsky Viktor Petrovich Ostrogorsky , (16 February 1840, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, — 31 January 1902, Valday, Novgorod Governorate, Imperial Russia was a Russian writer, pedagogue, publisher, translator and social activist. A Saint Petersburg University alumnus, Ostrogorsky taught Russian language and literature in numerous schools and institutes, including the Saint Petersburg Institute of Performing Arts. As a publisher, he's made himself a name by launching the series of cheap, accessible books for the poor, including ""From the People's Life"" (Из народного быта, an 1883 collection of short stories, folk tales, songs and sayings), ""Good People"""
"Rasputin's influence, she makes poor decisions. Nicholas is visited by his mother Dowager Empress Feodorovna, who is critical of his incompetence. She scolds him about avoiding domestic issues and implores him to eliminate Rasputin and to send Alexandra to Livadia in the Crimea. Concerned about Rasputin's influence, Grand Duke Dmitri and Prince Felix Yusupov invite Rasputin to a party and slowly murder him through several unsuccessful methods in December, 1916. Despite Rasputin's death, Alexandra continues her misrule. The army is ill supplied, and starving and freezing workers revolt in St. Petersburg in March 1917. Nicholas decides to return to Tsarskoye"
"name was changed to ""Mikhail Ivanov"" and he later became a noted artist. Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov ( ; , Lebyazhye, Semipalatinsk Oblast, now in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan – 15 August 1963, Moscow) was a notable Soviet writer praised for the colourful adventure tales set in the Asiatic part of Russia during the Civil War. Ivanov was born in what is now Northern Kazakhstan to a teacher's family. When he was a child, Vsevolod ran away to become a clown in a travelling circus. His first story, published in 1915, caught the attention of Maxim Gorky, who advised Vsevolod"
"the people and technological efficiency that he encounters in this new world. An English translation by Charles Rougle was published in 1984. Leonid, the narrator and protagonist of the story, is a Bolshevik revolutionary and mathematician living in St. Petersburg. The novel begins with an explanation of Leonid's few relationships within the revolutionary movement and with his love interest, Anna Nikolaevna. Despite his intimate relationship with Anna, Leonid confesses in the opening pages that their ideological differences concerning the revolution were too extreme for him to overcome. It is at this point in his life that Leonid, informally known as"
"the somewhat hysterical atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Petersburg and the Russian Revolution of 1905. To the extent that the book can be said to possess a plot, this can be summarized as the story of the hapless Nikolai Apollonovich, a ne'er-do-well who is caught up in revolutionary politics and assigned the task of assassinating a certain government official—his own father. At one point, Nikolai is pursued through the Petersburg mists by the ringing hooves of the famous bronze statue of Peter the Great. In his later years Bely was influenced by Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and became a personal friend of Steiner's."
"Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely (; – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, communist, and literary critic. His novel ""Petersburg"" was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century. Boris Bugaev was born in Moscow, into a prominent intellectual family. His father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a leading mathematician who is regarded as a founder of the Moscow school of mathematics. His mother was not only highly intelligent but a famous society beauty, and the focus of considerable gossip. Young"
"the Bulgarian town of Byala Cherkva (White Church, fictional representation of Sopot) to take part in the rebellion. There he meets old friends, enemies, and the love of his life. The plot portrays the personal drama of the characters, their emotions, motives for taking part in or standing against the rebellion, betrayal and conflict. Historically, the April Uprising of 1876 failed due to bad organization, limited resources, and betrayal. The brutal way in which the Ottomans broke down the uprising became the pretext for the Russian-Turkish war, that brought about Bulgarian independence. The book has many autobiographical elements: Sopot is"
"of La Fontaine: 1806 <br> 1808 <br> 1809 1811 1816 1819 1825 1834 Ivan Krylov Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (; February 13, 1769 – November 21, 1844) is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of 40. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often with a satirical bent. Ivan Krylov was born in Moscow, but spent his early years in Orenburg and Tver. His father, a distinguished military officer,"
"three months after this presentation Belinsky, each time we met, was bursting into congratulations, speaking of the bright future that awaited for me,"" Goncharov wrote in his ""Uncommon Story"" memoirs. On April 1, 1846 Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in a letter to his brother: ""The real host of new writers has emerged, some of them surely my rivals. Most remarkable are Hertzen (Iskander) and Goncharov. The former has been published already, the latter is unpublished yet, both being greatly praised."" The novel is about a young Russian nobleman named Aleksander Aduev, who arrives in St. Petersburg from the provinces and loses"
"known as Pugachev's Rebellion in 1774, which was ultimately crushed by Catherine's forces. In addition, Kondratii Selivanov, who led a castrating sect known as the Skoptsy, claimed to be both Jesus and Peter III. The legend of Peter is still talked about, especially in the town where he lived most of his life, former Oranienbaum, later Lomonosov, situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 40 km west of St. Petersburg. Peter's palace is the only one of the famous palaces in the St. Petersburg area that was not captured by the Germans during the Second World War."
"The Master of Petersburg The Master of Petersburg is a 1994 novel by South African writer J. M. Coetzee. The novel is a work of fiction but features the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky as its protagonist. It is a deep, complex work that draws on the life of Dostoyevsky, the life of the author and the history of Russia to produce profoundly disturbing results. It won the 1995 Irish Times International Fiction Prize. The novel begins with Dostoyevsky arriving in Saint Petersburg to collect the belongings of his recently deceased stepson Pavel. Arriving at the flat where Pavel lodged with"
"best-known masters of humorous and satirical verse of his time in Russia. Many of them were collected in the books ""Pesni Klassika"" (The Classic's Songs, 1873), ""Na rassvete"" (At Dawn, 1882), ""Stikhotvoreniya"" (Poems, 1891). He also authored the short novel ""Besputnye deti"" (Wayward Children, 1874), as well as ""Vesyoly poputchik"" (Jolly Companion, 1889), a compilation of travel sketches and stories he wrote during his numerous journeys, to Austria, Italy, Germany, as well over Siberia, Ukraine and Caucasus. Alexey Ivanov-Classic Alexey Fyodorovich Ivanov (, 14 February 1841, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 15 January 1894, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer"
"Alexander Odoevsky Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (, November 26 (December 8), 1802, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – October 10 (22) or August 15 (27), 1839, Psezuape, now Lazarevskoe, Sochi, Russia) was a Russian poet and playwright, one of the leading figures of the 1825 Decembrist revolt. One of Odoevsky's lines, ""Iz iskry vozgoritsa plamya"" (Из искры возгорится пламя, One spark will start a flame), has come down in history as a long-lasting slogan of the Russian revolutionary movement. It was chosen as a motto (signed as: the ""Decembrists' reply to Pushkin"") for the Lenin-founded newspaper ""Iskra"", also giving the magazine its"
"Petersburg (novel) Petersburg (, ""Peterbúrg"") is a novel by Russian writer Andrei Bely. A Symbolist work, it arguably foreshadows James Joyce's Modernist ambitions. First published in 1913, the novel received little attention and was not translated into English until 1959 by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written. Today the book is generally considered Bely's masterpiece; Vladimir Nabokov ranked it one of the four greatest ""masterpieces of twentieth century prose"", after ""Ulysses"" and ""The Metamorphosis"", and before ""the first half"" of ""In Search of Lost Time"". The novel is based in Saint Petersburg in the run up to"
"as the conflict between nature and the artificial, and also the theme of theatricality, in which St. Petersburg's building facades and massive boulevards create a stage designed for spectators became important themes for these writers. The effect of life in St. Petersburg on the plight of the poor clerk in a society obsessed with hierarchy and status also became an important theme for authors such as Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoyevsky. Another important feature of early St. Petersburg literature is its mythical element, which incorporates urban legends and popular ghost stories, as the stories of Pushkin and Gogol included ghosts returning"
"including Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, David Mamet, and Arthur Miller. The spelling of character names depends on the transliteration used. The play opens in the early morning hours of a cool day in May in the nursery of Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya's ancestral estate, somewhere in the provinces of Russia just after the turn of the 20th Century. Ranevskaya has been living with an unnamed lover in France for five years, ever since her young son drowned. After receiving news that she had tried to kill herself, Ranevskaya's 17-year-old daughter Anya and Anya's governess Charlotta Ivanovna have gone to fetch"
"gained widespread popularity in Russia. The action is set on the bank of the Volga River in a fictional town of Bryakhimov in 1877–1878. The two episodes of the movie differ chronologically: the events shown in the first episode last for almost one year, whereas the second episode shows events of less than one day, and the culmination of the whole story takes place in the second episode. Kharita Ignatyevna Ogudalova is a noblewoman from very respected family, a widow with three marriageable daughters. She has become poor after her husband's death, but she is trying to do everything possible"
"Oblomov Oblomov (; ) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed. In the first 50 pages, he manages only to move from his bed to a chair. The book was considered a satire of Russian intelligentsia. The novel was popular"
"The Man from St. Petersburg The Man from St. Petersburg is a thriller novel written by Ken Follett and published in 1982. The book is set just before the outbreak of the First World War. It is an account of how the lives of the main characters were interwoven with the success or failure of secret naval talks between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Russian Empire. In these, Britain had to win the support of Russia in order to make any headway with its navy. As a result, Czar Nicholas’s nephew Prince Alexei was sent"