Picture the scene: I had been trawling through the basement of the university languages library, and had finally got my hands on a translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. At ...
The Russian literary tradition presents and interprets many landscapes. From the frozen wastes of Siberia, to the metropoles of Petersburg and Moscow, and even lands where ...
Russian spelling hasn't always looked the way it does now. Even a brief look at old documents reveal variations in spelling and unfamiliar letters. So where did this change ...
The Cyrillic alphabet, known for its distinctive and elegant script, has played a significant role in shaping the cultural and linguistic landscape of many Slavic countries. ...
In the realm of Russian poetry, few voices have captivated readers and left an indelible mark quite like Boris Rizhiy. Born in 1974, Rizhiy's talent and poetic ...
On the world cultural stage, it’s fair to say that both Russian and native Russian-speaking demographics are very well represented, though primarily on the platforms of ...
Much like literature and film, Russian theatre is extremely fertile ground for both research and writing, and so, in order to retain a sense of scope and ground my writing ...
Any lover of Russian literature will have undoubtedly come across the likes of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov as it is these ‘fathers of the classics’ that Western readers ...
Any cinephiles out there will undoubtedly have consumed the majority of Hollywood’s output of the last 50 years or so. Some particularly voracious viewers might have ventured ...
Russian literature in translation has permeated beyond the Carpathian mountains and into Europe, and subsequently, the rest of the English speaking world. Though this in ...
Inexorably, Russian literature is immensely broad, deeply convoluted and far from a transparent sub-genre for any non-native prospective reader. In this regard, Tolstoy is the ...
Music is inherently intertwined with both language, and consequently, culture. It draws on the broad corpus of its chosen language and plays with the most complex of ...