Tag: Russian culture

• Who has burned cannot be set on fire.

  

  Yesenin’s poetic celebration of rural life was itself far removed from Yesenin’s real life.

  Jeff Rich

  May 28, 2022

  literature

  history, literature, poetry, Russia, Russian culture, Sergei Yesenin

• Poet and Citizen. Struggle and Song

  

  A new Russian writer I discovered this morning is Nikolai Nekrasov (1821-78)…

  Jeff Rich

  May 27, 2022

  literature

  history, literature, poetry, Russian culture

• New Acquisitions in the Burning Archive

  

  Over the last few weeks I have collected a fair swag of Russian world history and literature.

  Jeff Rich

  May 20, 2022

  culture, history, literature

  new books, Russia, Russian culture, Russian history

• Pushkin and the Trauma of the Flood

  

  The Russians of today show no sign of pulling down the great statue of Peter the Great that overlooks the Neva. Nor do they show any signs of cancelling Pushkin.

  Jeff Rich

  May 18, 2022

  literature

  literature, poetry, Pushkin, Russian culture

• Strange Freedom

  

  From this traumatised, divided old Russian Soviet poet, we learn about our own strange freedom.

  Jeff Rich

  May 16, 2022

  history, literature

  Boris Slutsky, culture, history, literature, poetry, Russian culture, Soviet Union, World War II

• The Seminar and the Last Night

  

  Shvarts has become for me an important poet.

  Jeff Rich

  May 15, 2022

  literature

  Elena Shvarts, literature, poetry, Russian culture, samizdat