I’ve been re-reading Nikolai Leskov’s Cathedral Clergy (Soboriane) in the excellent recent translation by Margaret Winchell (Slavica, 2010) for a new undergraduate course I’m starting to teach in the Autumn, Identities in nineteenth-century Russian literature. The first part of the course – and in many ways the most interesting for me in terms of preparing […]
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From Herzen to Leskov, and back again
Posted by Sarah Young on July 10, 2013
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/07/10/from-herzen-to-leskov-and-back-again/
Herzen’s Free Russian Press: plaque unveiled on Judd Street
It’s not often in my line of work that research has a concrete, physical and permanent (as far as anything can be) public outcome, so it was with great pleasure yesterday that I attended the unveiling of a new plaque commemorating the work of the Free Russian Press at 61 Judd Street in London. I […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 27, 2013
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/06/27/herzens-free-russian-press-plaque-unveiled-on-judd-street/
The Free Russian Press in London
When I wrote a post on Herzen in London, my focus was primarily on the man himself, rather than his publishing activities. But much of the discussion generated by the post recently has focused on the Free Russian Press (Вольная русская типография), leading me to conduct some further research, supported significantly by the contributions of three readers: […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 6, 2012
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/04/06/the-free-russian-press-in-london/
Russians in London: Alexander Herzen, with a note on Nikolai Ogarev
When researching the history of Russians in London, Alexander Herzen presents a considerable problem. He is without doubt the most significant of all the writers and activists who visited London in the nineteenth century, not only because he settled in the capital for some years (1852-64), but also because many of his compatriots — Turgenev, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 28, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/11/28/russians-in-london-alexander-herzen-with-a-note-on-nikolai-ogarev/