Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen up around him. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin felt by generations of Russians will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet, discussing his life, fiction, and famously untranslatable poems. This new edition of Strolls with Pushkin also includes a later essay Sinyavsky wrote on the artist, "Journey to the River Black."

Strolls with Pushkin (Russian Library)

Literature & Fiction

Sinyavsky, Andrei

Literary

Columbia University Press

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen up around him. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin felt by generations of Russians will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet, discussing his life, fiction, and famously untranslatable poems. This new edition of Strolls with Pushkin also includes a later essay Sinyavsky wrote on the artist, "Journey to the River Black."

Looks at the development of modern Russia, describes politics, daily life, language, and culture under the Soviet bureaucracy, and compares Russia and the United States

Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History

History

Russia

Arcade Pub

This masterly and extremely readable survey covers folk superstitions and customs, house and nature spirits, pagan gods, Christianization, saints, icons, the Schism, Old Believers, religious sects, and the characters and symbolism in Russian fairy tales that could be called the origin of the Russian psyche. Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997) was also known as Abram Tertz.

IVAN the FOOL: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (New Russian Writing)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

GLAS New Russian Writing

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Strolls with Pushkin (Russian Library)

Strolls with Pushkin (Russian Library)

Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History

IVAN the FOOL: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (New Russian Writing)