Culture and art

“...Serafimovich’s heroes—people of labor—always act only in moments of intense struggle for life. He illuminates the dramas of the struggle for life, which ...

“...as an observer of life and as a thinker, Mr. Timkovsky undoubtedly occupies one of the first places among the newest Russian fiction writers. In his work...

“The recent honoring of Nekrasov revives the memory of one of the most acute and painful “mental” dramas that the chronicle of Russian literature knows. <......

“... the key to understanding Dostoevsky’s talent must be sought precisely in his life and his literary activity that preceded his exile to Siberia. Only by ...

“The positive “Russian Wealth” criticized the metaphysics revived in our days. But, as it should have been foreseen, directing a blow against the latter, it ...

“Nikitin has long been given a place of honor among Russian “classics.” His works have long served as a reference book for every Russian intelligent person, ...

“...Their criticism of “real life” is not deep - as can be seen, for example, from the above quote. They do not give a consistent explanation for the “chaos”...

“The Russian intelligentsia is again experiencing a transitional era, again standing at a crossroads. Idols in which they recently so fervently believed are ...

“...if we are based on the characterization that Evgeniy Solovyov gave himself, one could only welcome him, be amazed at the unforgivable maliciousness of hi...

“...Most of the “new” people did not assimilate progressive ideas in the same way as these ideas were assimilated by the lonely heroes and ascetics of though...

“...The secret of worshiping Dostoevsky has thus been revealed. In the most typical hero of Dostoevsky, a certain part of the modern intelligentsia sees thei...

“The newest Russian literature, at first glance, puts an irresistible weapon into the hands of opponents of Marxism: it proves, apparently in the most brilli...