Culture and art

“...The new intellectuals came from slightly different social strata than the raznochintsy-“sixties”: they belonged more to the “people”; they were brought u...

To the fiftieth anniversary of the death of V.A. Zhukovsky. “The poet is the chosen one of Fate, the poet is the priest, the poet is an aristocrat of the spi...

“...The latest, autumn books of “thick” magazines delivered a lot of documents testifying to the reduced well-being of the “intelligent proletariat.” Let us ...

“It’s not uncommon, especially lately, to hear the opinion circulating among the public that Nadson is a typical “whiner.” Critics, in turn, pay mainly atten...

“...Gogol makes sure that his “soul is purer than mountain snow and brighter than the skies.” But what does this mean, what does Gogol mean by the concept of...

“Society has become “bored” of prosaic objective descriptions of everyday, everyday life, such as those offered by the “naturalistic” school: art turned out ...

“...If earlier Mr. Gorky offered to the attention of readers individual scenes from the life of a tramp, if earlier he painted tramps in the “heroic” moments...

“...Pisarev and Dobrolyubov were thus opposed to each other, as two writers who had absolutely nothing in common with each other, as representatives of two t...

“We will talk about the positive aspects of Chekhov’s worldview. Until now, a very significant part of the reading public, in their judgments about Chekhov, ...

“...the appearance of Edmund Koenig's work in a good Russian translation can only be welcomed. Koenig is one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Germany...

“On the pages offered to the reader’s attention, we characterize the general line of development of the latest Russian poetry. At the same time, we deviate f...

Dmitry Ostrovsky. Scientific section of pilots // Reading Room. 1997. No. 5. pp. 332-341.