Culture and art

“...Shelgunov occupies one of the most honorable places in the glorious galaxy of the sixties. Adhering to the circle of writers grouped around the editorial...

“...there were days when Pisemsky’s name was pronounced with the same respect as the names of Turgenev or Goncharov, when his talent was considered a first-c...

“In his “Russian Nights”, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, at the dawn of the “forties,” noted the approach of a new era of Russian life. “The age of the death of p...

“There are no bright, blinding colors on his palette; he does not resort to reproducing the gray and gloomy undertones beloved of decadent literature. He doe...

“The newest Russian literature is extremely poor in artistic descriptions of the life and everyday life of the modern worker and artisan. Those few works tha...

“... The works of Mr. Chirikov are a valuable monument of the just “outlived time”, interesting pages from the diary of the intelligentsia who in the first h...

"Mr. Budishchev's stories take the reader to a corner of Russian life, still relatively little illuminated by our fiction - to the world of a land-owning pro...

“...M. Albov, along with Anton Chekhov, limited the circle of his artistic observations to the environment of “gray people.” And his gray people in many resp...

“In newspaper obituaries dedicated to the memory of A.K. Sheller-Mikhailov, mainly emphasized the significance of his novels, reflected in their influence on...

“...The principle of economic independence was not clear to most women at that time. A woman was only an accessory to her husband and her family. An unmarrie...

“Of the questions that the rich literary heritage left by Ostrovsky encourages criticism to discuss, one of the most interesting and at the same time least d...

“V. I. Dmitrieva is one of those few Russian writers who have renounced the ancient traditions of “women’s” literature, who do not look at all the phenomena ...