"also been well received. The Idiot The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ""The Russian Messenger"" in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting ""the positively good and beautiful man."""
"that if you want to know anything, you must first be free of prejudice and on your guard against hasty generalizations."" Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include ""Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"" (1865) (which was"
"Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include ""Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"" (1865) (which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich), ""The Cathedral Clergy"" (1872), ""The Enchanted Wanderer"" (1873), and ""The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty"
"influenced by Chekhov along with Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Bunin, saying ""Bunin taught me not to compromise, and to go on believing in myself. Chekhov passed on his sense of humanity – that there can’t be any wholly negative characters in your text. And from Tolstoy I learned not to be afraid of being naïve."" Fiction Non-Fiction Mikhail Shishkin (writer) Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer. Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow. Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker,"
"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"
"a Polish 'Count'. In his notes Dostoevsky distinguishes the Prince from other characters of the virtuous type in fiction (such as Don Quixote and Pickwick) by emphasizing innocence rather than comicality. In one sense Myshkin's innocence is an instrument of satire since it brings in to sharp relief the corruption and egocentricity of those around him. But his innocence is serious rather than comical, and he has a deeper insight into the psychology of human beings in general by assuming its presence in everyone else, even as they laugh at him, or try to deceive and exploit him. Examples of"
"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"
"of how it responded to him. Devising a series of scandalous scenes, he would ""examine each character's emotions and record what each would do in response to Myshkin and to the other characters."" The difficulty with this approach was that he himself did not know in advance how the characters were going to respond, and thus he was unable to pre-plan the plot or structure of the novel. Nonetheless, in January 1868 the first chapters of ""The Idiot"" were sent off to ""The Russian Messenger"". Prince Myshkin, a young man in his mid-twenties and a descendant of one of the"
"heavily to one of the most influential literary magazines of the 19th century, the ""Sovremennik"" (""The Contemporary"", or ""Современник""). Pushkin inspired the folk tales and genre pieces of other authors: Leskov, Yesenin and Gorky. His use of Russian language formed the basis of the style of novelists Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov and Leo Tolstoy, as well as that of subsequent lyric poets such as Mikhail Lermontov. Pushkin was analysed by Nikolai Gogol, his successor and pupil, and the great Russian critic Vissarion Belinsky. The last mentioned also produced the fullest and deepest critical study of Pushkin's work, which still retains"
"Eugene Yelchin Eugene Yelchin (born Yevgeny Arkadievich Yelchin, , born October 18, 1956) is a Russian-American artist best known as an illustrator and writer of books for children. His novel ""Breaking Stalin's Nose"" was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2012. In 2018 ""The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge"" he co-authored with M.T. Anderson was named National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. His nephew was actor Anton Yelchin. Yelchin was born in Leningrad, Russia, to a Jewish family. In 1979, Yelchin graduated from the St. Petersburg State Theater Academy. From 1979 to 1983 he designed sets and costumes for leading"
"deep uncertainty as to the direction he was taking with the novel. Detailed plot outlines and character sketches were made, but were quickly abandoned and replaced with new ones. In one early draft, the character who was to become Prince Myshkin is an evil man who commits a series of terrible crimes, including the rape of his adopted sister (Nastasya Filippovna), and who only arrives at goodness by way of his conversion through Christ. By the end of the year, however, a new premise had been firmly adopted. In a letter to Apollon Maykov Dostoevsky explained that his own desperate"
"of the Victory"""", """"Cold Spring"""" by Ivan Lavsky, """"A Field"""" by Gavriil Malish, """"Coast of Southern Sakhalin"""" by Nikolai Mukho, """"Of the early spring"""" by Samuil Nevelshtein, """"Last Snow"""" by Sergei Osipov, """"September"""", """"Syverskaya settlement"""", """"Ural Mountains"""", """"A Young Aspen"""", """"Hay was harvested"""" by Ivan Savenko, """"Early Spring"""" by Vladimir Seleznev, """"Etude"""" by Arseny Semionov, """"Last ice"""", """"Terrace on the sea"""" by Alexander Shmidt, """"Gurzuf. Landscape"""" and """"The Restoration of the Mikhailovsky Castle"""", """"Sredniy Prospekt on Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad"""" by Victor Teterin, """"Evening on the Don River"""", """"Landscape"""", """"Don River expanses"""", """"Evening"""", """"On the Don River"""" by Nikolai Timkov,"
"Nikolai Leykin Nikolai Alexandrovich Leykin (; December 19, 1841 – January 19, 1906) was a Russian writer, artist, playwright, journalist and publisher. Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subject of the majority of his fiction. His popular work ""Our Folk Abroad"", set in Paris, which went through twenty-five editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business men. From 1882 to 1905, Leykin was the publisher and editor of the comic magazine ""Fragments"". It was in this magazine that Anton Chekhov began his literary career. Chekhov contributed"
"Russian Philosophy, vol. 3; see No. 8 above). “Alexander Pushkin” by Mikhail Zoshchenko, Columbia Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (1947): 19-20. Leo Tolstoy, “A History of Yesterday”, Russian Review, Vol. 8 (1949), 142-60. Reprinted in Leo Tolstoy: Short Stories (ed. Ernest J. Simmons), New York: Modern Library, 1964, 1-22. Reprinted, with revisions and abridgments, in Columbia University Forum, Vol. 2, No. 3, (1959), 32-38. The 1959 revision is reprinted in The Portable Tolstoy (ed. John Bayley), New York: Viking, 1978, pp. 35–47. The Full text is reprinted, with additional revisions, in Tolstoy's Short Fiction (ed. Michael R. Katz), New York:"
"The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (, literally: ""The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Bogatyrs"") is an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin telling a fairy tale of Prince Yelsei's search for his love, the Tsarevna, who has been cast out by her stepmother. While the story resembles the ""Little Snow White"" tale from the ""Grimm's Fairy Tales"", it is based around national Russian folklore, same as other Pushkin's fairy tales in verse inspired by the childhood tales told by his nurse Arina"
"Prince Serebrenni Prince Serebrenni () is a historical novel by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, written in 1859-1861 and first published in ""The Russian Messenger"" magazine in 1862 (Nos. 8-10, August–October issues) where it was divided into parts I (chapters 1-19, in No. 8) and II (chapters 20-40, Nos. 9 and 10). Translated by Princess Galitzine for Chapmann & Hall, it came out in English in 1874. ""Prince Serebrenni"" (also known as ""The Silver Knight"", according to the alternative translation), a novel about 16th-century Russia, inspired by the works of Sir Walter Scott and the German Romantics, has become a popular young"
"Buchkin, """"Twilight"""", """"Bad weather"""" by Sergei Frolov, """"Karelia. A Warm winter"""", """"A Morning"""" by Nikolai Galakhov, """"Canary Islands"""" by Vladimir Gavrilov, """"Novgorod. Yaroslavovo Dvorishche"""", """"Pskov. Church of Michael Archangel"""" by Mikhail Kaneev, """"Autumn"""", """"Nida. In the dunes"""" by Victor Korovin, """"Backwater"""", ""Cowhouse"" by Mikhail Kozell, """"Early May"""" by Vladimir Krantz, """"Mountain pass"""" by Ivan Lavsky, """"Kola Bay"""" by Nikolai Mukho, """"Spring"""", """"Evening"""" by Mikhail Natarevich, """"A Midday"""", """"Ferriage in Old Ladoga"""" by Lev Orekhov, """"April"""", """"Gypsum plant"""" by Sergei Osipov, """"Volkhov River in evening"""", """"On the river"""" by Victor Otiev, """"Street in Pristannoye"""", """"Twilight"""", """"Torzhok"""" by Vladimir Ovchinnikov, """"Cēsis"""" by"
"first story, ""Detstvo"" (""Childhood""), was something quite unlike anything written before him. It was in his family estate Yasnaya Polyana near Tula that he created two novels, ""War and Peace"" and ""Anna Karenina"", that are widely acclaimed as among the best novels ever written. Later he developed a kind of non-traditional Christian philosophy, described in his work ""The Kingdom of God is Within You"" which inspired Rainer Maria Rilke and Mohandas Gandhi, then a young lawyer, whose influence extended to Martin Luther King. Of Lev's thirteen children, most spent their life either promoting his teachings or denouncing them. His youngest"
"least, not a political exile—and who, along with a Catholic priest, has turned her against her family. Prince Myshkin, the novel's central character, is a young man who has returned to Russia after a long period abroad where he was receiving treatment for epilepsy. The lingering effects of the illness, combined with his innocence and lack of social experience, sometimes create the superficial and completely false impression of mental or psychological deficiency. Most of the other characters at one time or another refer to him disparagingly as an 'idiot', but nearly all of them are deeply affected by him. In"
"that they were commonly reproduced on common goods including bottles of soft drinks and postcards. Leonid Vladimirsky Leonid Vladimirsky (21 September 1920 in Moscow, Russia - 18 April 2015) was a Russian illustrator who worked on fairy tales, including books by Alexander Pushkin (""Ruslan and Ludmila""), Aleksey Tolstoy (""Golden Key"", 1953), and Alexander Volkov, as well as some folk tales. Vladimirsky graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography but decided to work as a book illustrator. He found it easiest to create evil characters, which are easily derived from the everyday life. Books illustrated by Vladimirsky were sold in 20 millions"
"narrative which proved to be so restrictive for his constructive horizons."" Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (poem) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин) is an epic poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1923-1924. First fragments of it appeared in October 1924 in numerous Soviet newspapers, then, as a separate edition it came out in February 1925 via Leningrad's Gosizdat. Mayakovsky's four-poem Lenin Cycle started in April 1920 with ""Vladimir Ilyich!"" published in the days when Vladimir Lenin's 50th birthday was celebrated all over the country. Then in 1923 came ""We Do Not Believe!"" (Мы не верим!), written in the wake of the"
"by Piotr Litvinsky, """"We construct a new world"""" by Piotr Litvinsky, Victor Reykhet, and Vladimir Scriabin, """"A New Boss"""" by Oleg Lomakin, """"A First Cavalry Army"""" by Boris Maluev, """"Citizen Militias"""" by Evsey Moiseenko, """"Defenders of Petrograd"""" by Konstantin Molteninov, """"The End of illusions. Bloody Sunday (1905)"""" by Yaroslav Nikolaev, """"At the Barricades"""" by Dmitry Oboznenko, """"The First furrow"""" by Nikolai Ovchinnikov, """"Lenin wounded"""" by Avenir Parkhomenko, """"The liberation of North Korea"""" by Varlen Pen, """"Mikula Selyaninovich"""" by Georgy Pesis, """"October"""", """"Guerrillas"""" by Vsevolod Petrov-Maslakov, """"On a halt"""" by Igor Razdrogin, """"Always with us"""" by Victor Reykhet, """"On the peaceful"
"The Cossacks (novel) The Cossacks ( [""Kazaki""]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine ""The Russian Messenger"". It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, Turgenev calling it his favorite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853. In August 1857, after having reread the ""Iliad"", he vowed to completely rewrite ""The Cossacks"". In February 1862, after having lost badly at cards he finished the novel to help pay his debts. The novel was"
"own works. It is worth noting that Dostoyevsky, who had just returned from exile in Siberia, was present at this speech, for eight years later he was to write ""The Idiot"", a novel whose tragic hero, Prince Myshkin, resembles Don Quixote in many respects. Turgenev, whose knowledge of Spanish, thanks to his contact with Pauline Viardot and her family, was good enough for him to have considered translating Cervantes's novel into Russian, played an important role in introducing this immortal figure of world literature into the Russian context. ""Fathers and Sons"" (""Отцы и дети""), Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel,"
"""Rebecca"" and William Wordsworth's ""The Idiot Boy"". Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common intersection between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel ""The Idiot"" the title refers to the central character Prince Myshkin, a man whose innocence, kindness and humility, combined with his occasional epileptic symptoms, cause many in the corrupt, egoistic culture around him to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence. In ""The Antichrist"", Nietzsche applies the word 'idiot' to Jesus in a"
"son to produce his study of this major Soviet establishment figure. Published in 2012, ""Just Send Me Word"" is a true story based on 1,246 letters smuggled in and out of the Pechora labour camp between 1946 and 1955 between Lev Mishchenko (a prisoner) and Svetlana Ivanova (his girlfriend in Moscow). There are 647 letters from Lev to Svetlana, and 599 from her to him. They form part of a family archive discovered by the Memorial Society and delivered in three trunks to their Moscow offices in 2007. The letters are the largest known collection of private correspondence from the"
"Bears campaign. He also created the illustrations for the opening credits of the HBO series Rome and designed characters for the animated feature Rango (2012 Oscar for Best Animated Feature). Interviews: Eugene Yelchin Eugene Yelchin (born Yevgeny Arkadievich Yelchin, , born October 18, 1956) is a Russian-American artist best known as an illustrator and writer of books for children. His novel ""Breaking Stalin's Nose"" was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2012. In 2018 ""The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge"" he co-authored with M.T. Anderson was named National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. His nephew was actor Anton Yelchin. Yelchin"
"books which have not, however, been as successful. Eduard Uspensky Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (; 22 December 1937 – 14 August 2018) was a Russian children's writer and poet, author of over 70 books, as well as a playwright, screenwriter and TV presenter. His works have been translated into 25 languages and spawned around 60 cartoon adaptations. Among the characters he created are Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena, Uncle Fyodor and Kolobki brothers. He was awarded IV Class Order ""For Merit to the Fatherland"" in 1997. Uspensky was born in Yegoryevsk, in Moscow Oblast into a Russian family. His father Nikolai Mikhailovich"
"The poem was set to music twice, by Anton Rubinstein and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Prince Rostislav (poem) Prince Rostislav (Князь Ростисла′в) is a poem by Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy first published in the April 1856 issue of ""The Russian Messenger"" (book 1, pp. 483-484), subtitled ""The Ballad"". The poem was based on an episode in ""Slovo o Polku Igoreve"" concerning Prince Rostislav of Pereyaslavl (1070-1093) and his brothers' losing a battle with the Polovtsy. Fleeting from the enemy, he drowned in the Stuhna River. The quotation from ""Slovo"" was used in a corrupt form, common at the time. Later literary scholars found"
"Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: , tr. ; ; ), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels ""War and Peace"" (1869) and ""Anna Karenina"" (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, ""Childhood"", ""Boyhood"", and ""Youth"" (1852–1856), and ""Sevastopol Sketches"" (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens"
"Tolstoy Leo The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy Leo The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories ""Courage"" Tolstoy Leo Anna Karenina Tolstoy Leo War and Peace Tolstoy Leo Resurrection Alcott Louisa May Little Women Twain Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ""Narration"" Baldwin James Vintage Baldwin ""Paragraphs"" James Henry The Portrait of a Lady ""Gesture"" James Henry The Turn of the Screw ""Narration"" Chekhov Anton Tales of Anton Chekhov: Volumes 1-13 ""Detail"" ""Gesture"" ""Chekhov"" ""Courage"" Chekhov Anton A Life in Letters ""Detail"" Strunck William The Elements of Style, Illustrated ""Sentences"" Proust Marcel Swann's Way ""Gesture"" Stein Gertrude The"
"Sergeant Prishibeyev ""Sergeant Prishibeyev"" () is an 1885 short story by Anton Chekhov. The story was first published in the 18 (5 o.s.) October 1885, No. 273 issue of ""Peterburgskaya Gazeta"" originally under the title ""Muckrake"" (Кляузник), and signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). Under the new title it was included by Chekhov into Volume 2 of his Collected Works published in 1899–1901 by Adolf Marks. Sergeant Prishibeyev was written originally for the ""Oskolki"" magazine, but its editor Nikolai Leykin found it 'too dry' and 'overdrawn'. Leykin prepared his own, abridged version of the story, but even that one was rejected"
"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (poem) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин) is an epic poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1923-1924. First fragments of it appeared in October 1924 in numerous Soviet newspapers, then, as a separate edition it came out in February 1925 via Leningrad's Gosizdat. Mayakovsky's four-poem Lenin Cycle started in April 1920 with ""Vladimir Ilyich!"" published in the days when Vladimir Lenin's 50th birthday was celebrated all over the country. Then in 1923 came ""We Do Not Believe!"" (Мы не верим!), written in the wake of the news of Lenin's fatal illness. It was at that time that"