Word: lermontovs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best-educated public in Russian history. The result has been a remarkable poetic revival. In theaters and student hostels from White Russia to Central Asia, overflow crowds listen to poets with almost religious fervor. On Sunday nights in summer, city squares echo to the liquid, incantatory cadences of Pushkin. Lermontov and. often. Zhenya Evtushenko. One good reason for poetry's popularity: scraps of "noiseless verse," as Russian writers call work that is too avant-garde or radical for publication, can easily be mimeographed and surreptitiously distributed from one group of youths to another. Though several underground poetry sheets have...
...flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully one-third of his reader is unadulterated literature-poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov, old Russian fables and seven assorted stories and anecdotes by Leo Tolstoy, including his Russian version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
...wild tribesmen Shamyl ruled lived by the shashka (saber) and kindjal (long dagger). "They sabre each other in the way of friendship," wrote the Russian Poet Lermontov, who, like Pushkin, served in the Caucasus and died in a duel there...
...chief country during the Romantic movement, England produced (always excepting Rousseau) the most tearful sentimentalists like Sterne, who, had Russian imitators, and the most energetic poseurs like Byron, traces of whose stock-in-trade are discoverable in Lermontov and in the great Puslakin. Through the Waverly Novels, Scott gave an impetus to Russian historical fiction which can hardly be exaggerated. "After Byron," says Dr. Simmons, "no figure in English literature caught the popular imagination or won the devotion of Russian writers to the same extent, influences continued to be sure, but they were of a superficial and passing nature. Russia...
...third lecture on "Russian History and Literature" last evening, Prince Serge Wolkonsky sketched the course taken by Russian literature during the period between Poushkin's death in 1837 and the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Among the numberous poets who group themselves around Poushkin, the name of Lermontov is the most celebrated. Comparing him with his great contemporary, the lecturer defined Lermontov as "the poet of romantic pessimism." An important place in Russian poetry belongs to Koltsoff for having introduced into literature elements of popula language, and especially for having made the peasant's life an object of fiction...