Alexander Radishchev was born in 1749 to a minor noble family and began writing verse and prose in the 1780s. In 1790, after the publication of Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow caused an uproar, he was arrested and sentenced to death before being exiled to Siberia. Tsar Paul allowed him to return, and Alexander I pardoned him and appointed him to the Commission for Drafting of New Laws. Radishchev committed suicide in 1802.Andrew Kahn is professor of Russian literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.Irina Reyfman is professor of Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University.
22 Электронные книги Andrew Kahn
Montesquieu: Persian Letters
‘Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That’s most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?’Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the …
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€12.82
Andrew Kahn: Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia’s greatest poet, a ‘founding father’ of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian c …
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€67.80
Montesquieu: Persian Letters
‘Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That’s most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?’Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the …
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английский
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€12.81
Andrew Kahn: Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia’s greatest poet, a ‘founding father’ of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian c …
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€68.05
Mikhail Lermontov: Hero of Our Time
‘After all that — how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?’ Lermontov’s hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures — amorous and reckless — do …
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€5.77
Mikhail Lermontov: Hero of Our Time
‘After all that — how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?’ Lermontov’s hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures — amorous and reckless — do …
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€5.77
Leo Tolstoy: Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
‘no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied’As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In ‘The Death of Ivan …
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€6.73
Leo Tolstoy: Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
‘no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied’As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In ‘The Death of Ivan …
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€6.72
Andrew Kahn & Mark Lipovetsky: History of Russian Literature
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing …
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€31.95
Andrew Kahn & Mark Lipovetsky: History of Russian Literature
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing …
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€90.96
Alexander Radishchev: Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey a …
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€18.99
Andrew Kahn: Mandelstam’s Worlds
Rightly appreciated as a ‘poet’s poet’, Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is ‘as firmly rooted in both an historical and …
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€112.99
Andrew Kahn: Mandelstam’s Worlds
Rightly appreciated as a ‘poet’s poet’, Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is ‘as firmly rooted in both an historical and …
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€99.80
Alexander Pushkin: Queen of Spades and Other Stories
The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. H …
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€10.69
Alexander Pushkin: Queen of Spades and Other Stories
The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. H …
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€10.64
Catherine The Great: Catherine the Great: Selected Letters
‘Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 Sep …
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€13.82
Andrew Kahn: Short Story
What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and …
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€7.69
Andrew Kahn: Short Story
What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and …
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€7.69
Catherine The Great: Catherine the Great: Selected Letters
‘Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 Sep …
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€13.90
Andrew Kahn & Mark Lipovetsky: All the World on a Page
The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria Stepanova The Russian cultural tradition t …
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€42.99
