Word: russian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Prince Serge Wolkonsky will give the third of his lectures on Russian History and Literature in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to the public, but the seats on the floor will be reserved for members of the University...
Lecture. Russian History and Literature. III. 1837-1861. Prince Serge Wolkonsky. Sanders Theatre...
...gave an account of one of Poushkin's most characteristic creations-a novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness. Equally excellent, said the speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language...
...concluding remarks, Prince Wolkonsky dwelt on the interesting question of Poushkin's national character-in how far he is representatively Russian; many critics finding him too universal to be called a strictly national poet...
...central point of the next lecture will be Gogol and the genesis of the Russian naturalistic school, of which Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy are the chief representatives...