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1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) [1] is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. [2]
The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.
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Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality. It has also been described as a theological drama [ 1 ] dealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide .
The novel has been compared to Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869), notably by Maxim Gorky. [2] [3] Like the Tolstoy novel, And Quiet Flows the Don is an epic of Russian life during a tempestuous era of crisis, and examines it through political, military, romantic, and civilian lenses. Various rumours of plagiarism began circulating from 1930.
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