A Who’s Who of 20th-century Russian Female Writers

24 Aug 2018

Students of Russian literature sometimes complain about a gender imbalance on their course syllabi -- where are the Russian female writers!? To investigate this supposed ...
09 Aug 2018

In St Petersburg, many of the former homes of famous writers of Russian literature have been preserved and are now open to visit. These small museums are often made up of at ...
08 Aug 2018

Moscow is the most important city in Russia, not only from the economic and financial point of view, but especially because it is a vast cultural centre, boasting a rich ...
07 Aug 2018

Born August 7, 1955 in the Moscow region, Vladimir Sorokin is an internationally acclaimed Russian writer. When I asked my babushka for recommendations of contemporary Russian ...
20 Jun 2018

It will come as no surprise that St Petersburg, as Russia’s cultural capital, is brimming with theatres. With such a rich creative history, it would be impossible for there ...
22 May 2018

In Liden & Denz, we love to incorporate outdoor activities like sightseeing, boat trips, and city tours into our Russian language courses package of offers. That’s because ...
05 Sep 2017

Vladimir Mayakovsky is considered one of the Russian Futurism's leading figures and is known as the Poet of Revolution. There is no other writer, in fact, linked as much as ...
21 Aug 2017

Anna Akhmatova is one of the greatest female poets in Russian literature. Her extraordinary talent for poetry, her beauty and sensibility contributed to make her a key-figure ...
06 Jun 2017

Happy Birthday Pushkin! С днём рождения! St. Petersburg truly is Pushkin’s city, so to celebrate the great poet’s birthday why not experience the Northern Capital like he did? ...
26 May 2017

St. Petersburg is world-renowned for its architectural beauty, unique history, and impressive literary heritage. But how did the city get its wonderful reputation? From Peter ...
02 May 2017

Perhaps one of the world’s best cultural destinations, St. Petersburg has inspired a great number of artists through the ages. Many poets have been drawn to “the most abstract ...
29 Mar 2017

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7 things to consider before you start studying Russian There are plenty of good reasons why you should start learning Russian as a foreign language. With a total number of ...