By George Pahomov, Nickolas Lupinin
ISBN-10: 0761840672
ISBN-13: 9780761840671
ISBN-10: 076184175X
ISBN-13: 9780761841753
The Russian Century is the main finished and available choice of readings dedicated to Russian tradition and civilization. The interesting first-person bills paint a bright photo of the Russian humans in the course of the turbulent years of the cave in of the Soviet Union. This ebook permits readers to determine Russia during the inner most lives of people that come from different backgrounds, a variety of academic and socio-economic stories, and a extensive geographic spectrum. Diary entries, own sketches, memoirs, and letters inform those tales in an intimate and actual voice of quick adventure instead of the far-off, basic circulate of background. Translated into English for the 1st time, own concerns in addition to the bigger social and political context are published in a fashion that offers major perception right into a strong, specific, and influential tradition.
All too usually the Russian event has been provided as both terrible or heroic. This quantity is going past that technique and bargains with components that have bought very little realization to present stories of Russian historical past and tradition? love, sexuality, courtship, marriage, relatives lifestyles, paintings, schooling, and faith
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He is not of this world,” his nanny Pelageia Sergeevna marveled in sad adoration. His half-brothers and half-sisters loved him. I don’t know what his godfather—“Brother Kolia,” as we called him— gave him on the occasion of the cutting of his first tooth. My mother selected him as the godfather in order to strengthen the connection between the new brother and his half-brother. My miserly grandmother Olga Vasilievna celebrated the first tooth with generosity; my mother kept grandmother’s gifts of heavy golden ten-ruble pieces from the age of Catherine the Great (two or three of them) until times of dire need.
Sofiia Kovalevskaia, A Thief in the House 39 It wasn’t so much her words as the tone of voice in which she said them that shook me. I didn’t stop, but kept on running. But then, on returning to the classroom and calming down after my fright, I couldn’t forget the sound of that voice—hollow, despondent. I was not myself all evening. No matter how I tried to suppress the unpleasant gnawing sensation inside of me by playing, by prankishness, I couldn’t make the feeling go away. The thought of Maria Vasilievna wouldn’t leave my mind.
I don’t remember him ever laughing. “Sinful” was a strict and harsh word coming from him. It hardly needs to be said that he was a proper, irreproachably proper, family man. And my mother, who had married him, a fifty-year-old, without love, had five sons by him, and knew all the joys and sorrows of motherhood that the one she had loved before didn’t give her. First she gave birth to a son, named Nikolai in honor of his father. ” Fedor Sologub liked to write of those “not of this world”—children with large, pensive eyes which early on showed an orphan’s fear of the cold misery of existence.
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