This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the t

This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the t

This text explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture and aims to answer the questions: How and when did a Russian national

Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this int

Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural re