This article explores the image of the khalat, or dressing gown, in and around Petr Viazemskii’s 1817 poem “Proshchanie s khalatom” (Farewell to My Dressing Gown). As the poem circulated during the period between its creation and printing, its central image—the khalat—became enshrined as a symbol for early nineteenth-century literary culture…[Read more]

This book chapter examines the Gothic trope of the “fall of the house” across the Russian long nineteenth-century canon, focusing on Aksakov’s A Family Chronicle, Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Family Golovlyov, and Bunin’s Dry Valley.

This chapter examines nineteenth-century Russian writers who drew on the Gothic in order to explore the experience of death, existential terror, and the possibility of an afterlife within the bounds of literary realism. In Turgenev’s story ‘Bezhin Meadow’ and Chekhov’s sketch ‘A Dead Body’, Gothic language and imagery create a narrative f…[Read more]

This article reads Chekhov’s play Three Sisters as a response to Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler through an examination of the plays’ possible intertextual relationship. The author discusses the historical context of both plays as well as their textology and staging directions.

This is an archive of the Twitter feed @YakovGolyadkin, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel The Double from its protagonist’s perspective in November 2015.

How should we remember historical moments of violence and loss? What are the links between terrible events like the Holocaust, the mass casualties of World War I, the Armenian Genocide, and crises around the world today? What challenges do historians face as they examine and interpret death and war?

Anika Walke and Jay Winter both face such…[Read more]

Soviet Journals Reconnected uses bibliographical data from the Soviet index of periodical contributions (Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei) to trace how
communities of shared aesthetic and ideological inclination took shape. The data has been cleaned and normalized. It is organized in a relational database that allows for targeted queries in light of…[Read more]