The Classics
Title
The Classics
Description
Miniature editions of canonical texts of the literatures of Russia and other East European nations.
Collection Items
Stikhotvoreniia = Poems. Selections.
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (Russian: Владиимир Сергеевич Соловьёв; January 28 [O.S. January 16] 1853 – August 13 [O.S. July 31] 1900) was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, literary critic, who played a significant role in the development…
Demon
Mikhail IUrievich Lermontov (1814-41; Михаил Юрьевич Лeрмонтов) born into wealth and nobility in Moscow, was orphaned in early life, but received an aristocratic upbringing and an elite education. His best known narrative poem The Demon is about a…
Izbrannoe.
Izbrannoe 'Favorites' is a collection of poems by Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый), a.k.a. Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880-1934). Bely was a poet, novelist, critic and theorist; influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kant and friend of Solovyov he became…
Rasskazy / Mikhail Bulgakov.
Short stories by Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков 1891-1940) Russian writer and playwright, master of satire and the grotesque, struggled with the Soviet authorities for artistic freedom. Several of his great works including…