Posts Tagged Imperial Russia
White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russian Literature Tour in Retrospect
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect on July 19, 2010
The White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russian Literature Tour has been a great success! Did you miss any posts the first time around? Below are the participants and their posts.
Monday, June 21 Only Words To Play With Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls and it’s anit-hero Chichikov
Monday, June 21 So Many Books Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Tuesday, June 22 Sasha & The Silverfish Leo Tolstoy’s essay What is Art?
Tuesday, June 22 The Researcher’s Tale A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Wednesday, June 23 Time Enough At Last Dead Souls by Gogol
Wednesday, June 23 Notes from the North Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thursday, June 24 Pining for the West Liza by Turgenev
Friday, June 25 A Literary Odyssey Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Saturday, June 26 Books and Chocolate A Night at the Cemetery and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Sunday, June 27 The Reading Life Diary of A Superflous Man by Ivan Turgenev
Sunday, June 27 November’s Autumn Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
Monday, June 28 Shelf Love The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Tuesday, June 29 Becky’s Book Reviews Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 29 Tell Me A Story The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, June 30 Wuthering Expectations A Russian Gentleman and A Russian Childhood by Sergei Aksakov
Thursday, July 1 Readthisbook.us Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky
Thursday, July 1 Life is a Patchwork Quilt The Russian poets of the Imperial Age (i.e. Pushkin, Lermertov)
Saturday, July 3 Stiletto Storytime The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Monday, July 5 BookNAround Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 5 Lizzy’s Literary Life The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tuesday, July 6 A Common Reader Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, July 8 First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Checkhov
Thursday, July 8 Sparks’ Notes Anna Karenina (Part 1) by Tolstoy
Thursday, July 8 things mean a lot Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Friday, July 9 eclectic / eccentric House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
Saturday, July 10 my books. my life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, July 11 Ardent Reader Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Monday, July 12 Bibliolatry Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Tuesday, July 13 Bookie Mee Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 In Spring it is the Dawn Short stories from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, July 14 Sophisticated Dorkiness Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, July 14 Paperback Reader A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Thursday, July 15 Adventures of an Intrepid Reader War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, July 15 The Blog Jar Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevksy
Friday, July 16 Rebecca Reads Selections from the Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Friday, July 16 The Zen Leaf Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Friday, July 16 A Book Lover The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thanks for your eager participation! The Classics Circuit is on vacation for the next few weeks. Subscribe to the feed to make sure you don’t miss when we do plan the next tour.
In the mean time, I’ve started an experiment. To strengthen the community of those who read classics, I’ve started a “Web Ring” for classics readers. If the format doesn’t work, we’ll tweak it; for now, read more information about it here.
Russian Imperial Literature Half-way Point
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on July 3, 2010
We are now halfway through the White Nights on the Neva: Russian Imperial Literature tour, and I’m sure enjoying all the posts about the classics Russians! I hope you keep following the tour for the next two weeks as well: there is much still to come!
One note: We’ve noticed that there have been a few “no shows’ in which people missed their scheduled day to post. We don’t want to miss your posts if you do post late, and we’d love to know ahead of time if you can’t make your scheduled day. Just send me an email at rebecca [at] rebeccareid [dot] com and I’ll reschedule you later in the tour. Thanks!
Imperial Russian Literature Tour Begins Tomorrow
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on June 20, 2010
I thank all of you for your feedback. It looks like we’ll hold off on the Meiji-era Japanese tour until the fall so those who are tied up in August will still be able to participate.
In the meantime, however, we still have the White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russian Literature tour beginning tomorrow! To try to simplify things, we will not be having weekly “This week in the tour” posts. I’ll make the main schedule for the Russian tour as a sticky post so if you you check this blog every day, you’ll be able to see the entire tour schedule and find the blogs that the tour is visiting. Also, see the button on the right side — that will also get you to the main schedule.
Happy Russian reading! I’m really looking forward to this great tour.
Imperial Russian Literature on Tour
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on May 26, 2010
Beginning Monday, June 21, 2010, we’ll be celebrating White Nights on the Neva as Imperial Russian Literature goes on a virtual tour of the blogosphere. Check out these participating blogs where you’ll find reviews.
The button for this tour is a picture of St. Petersburg and the Neva River on a “white night.” It was taken by Incandenzafied of Flickr and used under a Creative Common License. The caption for this image on Flickr? “Yep, real pretty there.” Feel free to use the button to promote your participation in the blog tour. Please download it to your computer first.
Monday, June 21 Only Words To Play With Thoughts on Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and/or Tolstoy
Monday, June 21 So Many Books Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Tuesday, June 22 Sasha & The Silverfish The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 22 The Researcher’s Tale A Hero of Our Time Tale by Mikhail Lermontov
Wednesday, June 23 Time Enough At Last Dead Souls by Gogol
Wednesday, June 23 Notes from the North Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thursday, June 24 A Literary Odyssey Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Thursday, June 24 Pining for the West Virgin Soil or Liza by Turgenev
Friday, June 25 Inside Books undecided
Friday, June 25 A Few of My Favourite Books First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Saturday, June 26 Books and Chocolate The Shooting Party or short story collection by Anton Chekhov
Sunday, June 27 The Reading Life Diary of A Superflous Man by Turgenev
Sunday, June 27 November’s Autumn Rudin by Turgenev
Monday, June 28 Shelf Love The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
Tuesday, June 29 Becky’s Book Reviews War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 29 Tell Me A Story The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, June 30 Wuthering Expectations A Russian Gentleman and A Russian Childhood by Sergei Aksakov
Wednesday, June 30 Reading Through Life Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Thursday, July 1 Readthisbook.us Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky
Thursday, July 1 Life is a Patchwork Quilt The Russian poets of the Imperial Age (i.e. Pushkin, Lermertov
Friday, July 2 Rundpinne The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Friday, July 2 Radiant Light The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Saturday, July 3 Stiletto Storytime The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday, July 4 things mean a lot Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Monday, July 5 BookNAround Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 5 Lizzy’s Literary Life The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tuesday, July 6 The Blog Jar Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevksy
Tuesday, July 6 A Common Reader Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
Wednesday, July 7 Fleur Fisher Reads Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Thursday, July 8 First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Checkhov
Thursday, July 8 Sparks’ Notes Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Friday, July 9 eclectic / eccentric House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
Friday, July 9 Review, Rewrite, and Rewind Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Saturday, July 10 my books. my life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, July 11 Ardent Reader Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday, July 11 Rob Around Books Chekhov’s characters
Monday, July 12 Bibliolatry Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 12 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 Bookie Mee Short story or stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky or LeoTolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 In Spring it is the Dawn Short stories from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, July 14 Sophisticated Dorkiness Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, July 14 Paperback Reader A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Thursday, July 15 Adventures of an Intrepid Reader War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, July 15 Bluestalking Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev
Friday, July 16 Rebecca Reads Selections from the Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Friday, July 16 The Zen Leaf Dead Souls by Gogol
Friday, July 16 A Book Lover The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Please note: If you are participating in this tour and the information above is incorrect or you need to make a change to your tour day, please let us know by leaving a comment or emailing classicscircuit [at] googlegroups [dot] com. Someone from the Committee will update the schedule.
If you missed sign up and you would like to be added to the schedule at this late point, we still have a few free slots and we can fit you in. Just e-mail us at classicscircuit [at] googlegroups [dot] com.
White Nights on the Neva: Russian Imperial Literature Circuit Sign Up
Posted by admin in Intro and Sign Up on May 11, 2010
On June 21, we will begin a new Classics Circuit, the White Nights on the Neva: Russian Imperial Literature. Depending on the number of people who sign up, it will run for three or four weeks, that is, until July 11 or July 17.
The nineteenth century is generally known as the “golden era” of Russian literature, and this tour is our opportunity to embrace it. Romanticism flourished with Alexander Pushkin’s poetry, followed by many other poets, such as Mikhail Lermontov. For those outside of Russia, the prose writers are possibly more well known: Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov, as well as Goncharov.
While on this information page we highlight some of the most well known novels and stories by these authors, any author or writing from the golden age of Russian literature (19th century) is suitable for the tour. This list is just to give you ideas and get you started if you are a newbie. Some of these works are quite long, but most authors also wrote short stories. Choose something you have time to read for the Circuit and enjoy! For more information and other authors you may want to consider, see Wikipedia.
Sign up is now closed.
If you missed sign up and would still like to participate in the tour, please send an email to the committee at classicscircuit@googlegroups.com and we will see if we can add you to the schedule.
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