You never quite know where your research is going to take you, but I have to admit I didn’t expect it to be to the Isle of Wight. That, however, is where I ended up a couple of months ago as a result of my Russians in London post on Alexander Herzen, after I was [...]
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In Herzen’s footsteps: a visit to Ventnor
Posted by Sarah Young on November 10, 2011
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/11/10/in-herzens-footsteps-a-visit-to-ventnor/
E. H. Carr on women
I’ve been re-reading parts of E. H. Carr’s The Romantic Exiles (1933) in preparation for a couple of forthcoming posts on Alexander Herzen, and it’s left an unpleasant taste that I have to address before I can even get onto Herzen. Clearly I’m far from being the first person to take issue with Carr – Norman [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 25, 2011
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/09/25/e-h-carr-on-women/
Atamansha
According to one of my mailing lists, a poll to identify the women who best symbolize modern-day Russia has seen the top two places given to ageing lite entertainment diva and staple of celebrity gossip magazines, Alla Pugacheva (I could never see the point, even ironically – perhaps because I like music), and the arch-Putinite [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 8, 2011
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/03/08/atamansha/
Top Ten Murders in Russian Literature
This is the first in a new occasional series in which I’ll look at different aspects of Russian literature through a ‘Top Ten’, and hopefully give people a few reading ideas. My main rule is that writers may only have one entry in any given list. Which makes my first subject slightly trickier than it [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 11, 2011
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/11/top-ten-murders-in-russian-literature/
Marriage in late imperial Russia
Today I went to a really great seminar given by Barbara Alpern Engel at SSEES on marriage breakdown in the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II. Engel is very well known as a specialist on women’s history who, among other things, has written the brilliant Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia. [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 27, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/27/marriage-in-late-imperial-russia/
Four short links: Alexandra Kollontai
I’ve been interested in Alexandra Kollontai’s work for a while, and would like to do some research and write about her at some point. But at the moment I’ve got so many other projects on the go that I can’t see how I can possibly fit anything else in. So, as a statement of intent [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 20, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/20/four-short-links-alexandra-kollontai/
The yellow card: a footnote
Earlier in the year, I wrote about the regulation of prostitution in Russia as part of my consideration of the representation of Sonia in Crime and Punishment. The subject has now come back to my attention as the result of some completely unrelated reading: the very fine East End Jewish Radicals, 1875-1914, by William J. [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 27, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/09/27/the-yellow-card-a-footnote/
Russkii vestnik 1863
Highlights of this year include Tolstoy’s The Cossacks and Polukushka. I have to admit I’ve never come across the latter before — I’m slightly on the fence about Tolstoy, so I never really get beyond the obvious things, although there are quite enough of those. There’s also part of a drama by Maikov called Three [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 29, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/29/russkii-vestnik-1863/
Re-reading Crime and Punishment: mis-naming
My recent posts collating contents pages of Russian journals do not, I will admit, make for very exciting reading. They do have a purpose, though, and are going to be appearing for some time. But I do want to continue writing on other subjects, partly so as not to alienate all my readers, and partly [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 12, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/12/re-reading-crime-and-punishment-mis-naming/