An anthology of Russian literature from earliest writings to modern fiction :
[Book]
introduction to a culture /
edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky
Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
c2005
xiv, 587 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm +
1 Cd-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-587)
The tale of Igor -- Boris and Gleb -- The life of Alexis, holy man of God -- The life of Avvakum / Avvakum -- Felicity / Gavrila Derzhavin -- The firebird and Princess Vasilisa -- Poor Liza / Nikolai Karamzin -- The bronze horseman : a Petersburg tale / Alexander Pushkin -- Borodino / Mikhail Lermontov -- Taman : from A hero of our time / Mikhail Lermontov -- Boris Godunov / Alexander Pushkin -- The queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- Bezhin meadow / Ivan Turgenev -- The meek woman : a fantastic story / Fedor Dostoevsky -- Lefty : a skaz about cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and a steel flea / Nikolai Leskov -- Holstomer : the story of a horse / Leo Tolstoy -- The lady with the lapdog / Anton Chekhov -- The cherry orchard : act 1 / Anton Chekhov -- A puppet show / Alexander Blok -- The gray-eyed king / Anna Akhmatova -- Listen! / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- I ask the mirror for a glimpse-- / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Verses about Moscow / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Barely a tenth / Valery Briusov -- The escape: from Petersburg / Andrei Bely -- The king / Isaak Babel -- Farewell, my friend, farewell-- / Sergei Esenin -- The union of the sword and the plow : from The twelve chairs / Ilf and Petrov -- Virgin soil upturned : chapter 7, book 1 / Mikhail Sholokhov -- Crime and punishment : a comedy in one act / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- We live without feeling ... / Osip Mandelstam -- The last toast / Anna Akhmatova -- Makarov and Peterson : no. 3 / Daniil Kharms -- Chapayev anecdotes -- Black magic and its exposure : from The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- Hamlet / Boris Pasternak -- Morning exercise / Vladimir Vysotsky -- Wooden horses / Fedor Abramov