I know I said I’d write another post about Mapping Petersburg, but I’m still thinking about that, so in the mean time, another top ten. But this time it is not the works, but the writers themselves, and specifically their facial adornments, that interest me. Beards, as Elif Batuman has affirmed, are hugely important to […]
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Top ten beards in Russian literature
Posted by Sarah Young on April 20, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/04/20/top-ten-beards-in-russian-literature/
Russkii vestnik 1857
The 1857 volumes feature poetry by the usual suspects, Maikov, Fet, Tiutchev, and A. K. Tolstoy, all of whom obviously formed an early and lasting attachment to the journal. Prose is represented in works by Pechersky, Petrichenko and Evgeniia Tur, as well as a number of stories by Shchedrin. Tur also contributes an essay on […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 10, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/10/russkii-vestnik-1857/
Russkii vestnik 1858
Poetry plays a strong role in the 1858 volumes, with works by Maikov, Fet, Berg, A. K. Tolstoy, Tiutchev, Pavlova, and others. Prose fiction features somewhat less, though there are number of stories, including contributions by Tur an Narskaia. Non-fictional articles are both wide-ranging and international in perspective. Although there are works on Russian history, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 3, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/03/russkii-vestnik-1858/
Russkii vestnik 1865
These volumes of Russkii vestnik feature a number of literary works, from chapters from War and Peace and poetry by Fet, Tiutchev and Viazemsky, to the continuation of Wilkie Collins’s Armadale and, in the supplement, Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. There are historical articles on Alexander I after 1812, the Pugachevshchina, and Lomonosov and the Academy […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 15, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/15/russkii-vestnik-1865/
Russkii vestnik 1869
Russkii vestnik was published from 1856 to 1906. Founded by Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov, who edited it until his death in 1887, it became one of the most influential literary-philosophical journals of the second half of the nineteenth century, publishing nearly all the great novels of that period: Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and […]
Posted by Sarah Young on July 18, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/07/18/russkii-vestnik-1869/