Criticism

“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 ...

“...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 ...