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Questions about works of literature that were originally written in the Russian language, regardless of whether they were written or published in Russia or elsewhere.
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Why did Anna Akhmatova use that last name?
It seems we can’t know that for sure.
Akhmatova adopted this pseudonym as a teenager since her father didn’t want her to use his last name. Lydia Chukovskaya remembers her conversation with Akhmatova …
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Who wrote The Cleaners and what is the book about?
I believe Andra is correct, and it is Vladimir Bogomolov’s The Moment of Truth (In August of 1944).
The USSR had a legal deposit system. Several copies of every publication in the country were sent to …
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Where did Sergey Bulgakov write that the world cannot altogether fail?
The quote from Alexievich in Russian:
Нашёл у отца Сергея Булгакова… «поскольку Бог создал мир наверняка, то
мир не может вовсе не удаться» и нужно «мужественно и до конца
претерпеть историю».
One p …
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In Turgenev's "First Love", what did the father mean by “Vous devez vous séparer de cette”?
Scholars who read Turgenev’s drafts say that the word is femme. However, there’s some disagreement on who says the line. The scene itself was analyzed in a number of ways, so an overview demands a cer …
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What kind of censorship was Dostoevsky avoiding by obscuring place names?
The evidence I was able to find doesn’t indicate censorship being involved.
M.V. Gorbanevsky in his article ТРИНАДЦАТЬ СТУПЕНЕК В ДОМЕ РАСКОЛЬНИКОВА (Thirteen steps in Raskolnikov’s house) writes:
"С …
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How did Denisov reappear in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace?
While I didn’t find an explicit explanation in the book, it’s possible to speculate about it. The simplest solution is as follows.
Vasily Denisov has a clear historical prototype: Denis Vasilyevich Da …
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Quote from Chekhov about a person who does not answer a letter
Mentioned in Korney Chukovsky's diary entry for Jan. 23, 1910:
Вас. Ив. Немирович-Данченко был у меня сегодня и рассказывал между
прочим про Чехова; он встретился с Чеховым в Ницце: Чехов отвечал на
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What was the original meaning of "rolling their eyes"?
Seems to be a mistranslation.
Rolling one’s eyes is a gesture “used to disagree or dismiss or express contempt”. The Russian phrase for it is «закатывая глаза». The novel says «выкатывая глаза» (liter …
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How are the Chekov passages handled in the translation of 1Q84?
The English translation of 1Q84 has used the translation by Brian Reeve. Here’s a passage from 1Q84:
The Gilyak is of strong, thick-set build, and average, even small, in
height. Tall stature would h …
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War and Peace: Russian troop movements in part 2, chapters 7 and 8
My understanding of the events. Nesvitski is sent with the order to “tell the hussars that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge […]; and the inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspe …
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Which literary movement do Pushkin's Little Tragedies belong to?
It seems that authors find elements of both realism and romanticism in Little Tragedies.
The Pushkin Handbook (2005) explains that Soviet authors overstated a case for realism for ideological reasons: …
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What is the significance of the money given to Liza in Notes from Underground?
It seems that the Underground Man tried to humiliate Liza, acting out of spite.
There are some accessible introductions online (YouTube has a couple of seminars by Prof. Michael Moir, lectures from Dr …
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Why did Russian corpses rot in "War and Peace", but not French?
These uneducated soldiers ascribe supernatural unhuman qualities to the invaders. A little further they suspect that the French military commander Napoleon possesses shape-shifting and undead capabili …
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Does the original Russian prose in The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov sound unusual/uncon...
Some more reactions from Russian speakers.
Сritic Yuri Saprykin in a popular educational resource Polka:
Почему «Котлован» написан таким странным языком?
Это первое
впечатление от любых текстов Плато …
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How do Pierre and Natasha "lie to each other" in 'War and Peace'?
They really don’t.
1. The lie in question.
Beauvoir didn’t provide insight of her own here, it’s a paraphrase of certain arguments from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. Lawrence:
Better Anna Kare …
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