Criticism

“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...

“...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...