Culture and art

“G. Timkovsky, as has been repeatedly noted by literary criticism, belongs to the number of fiction writers of the general humane trend; he is usually charac...

“Gogol is the bearer of a “medieval”, mystical-ascetic worldview. Gogol marks the moment of awakening of Russian social consciousness. Gogol does not begin a...

“Of the news that thick magazines managed to give us this year, the story by V. Veresaev “At the Turning” is of especially outstanding interest... Actually, ...

“...if we are based on the words of Mrs. A. Verbitskaya herself, it turns out that we are dealing with a writer who is undoubtedly in the forefront of the pr...

“Literature is psychology, transformed and adapted to the changing conditions of civilization.” Ribot came to this conclusion based on an analysis of the ori...

“...g. Berdyaev characterizes N.K. Mikhailovsky, as “a remarkable philosopher and publicist of populism” and explains his philosophy from the conditions of s...

“At the end of the nineties, Russian belles-lettres literature was experiencing a significant crisis. After an era of long-term literary “impoverishment,” an...

“The heroes of Mr. Boborykin’s works are, along with representatives of the cultural bourgeoisie, intellectuals-progressives and among them a progressive who...

“...Belonging to a man - this is what the European woman saw then as the exclusive goal of her life. And for many centuries, belonging exclusively to a man a...

“The drama of lonely souls” is a topic on which modern literary artists especially often focus their attention. “Lonely people” are the favorite heroes of fi...

“...This was one of the strongest and brightest talents put forward by the wave of the social movement of the sixties. The son of a drunken postman, from chi...

“...the element that distinguished Machtet’s works from the stories and novels of the sixties and seventies was the element of “miracles.” In search of roman...