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19th Century Russia
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Falconet's Statue of Peter the Great (1788)
(painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov) (illustration) (dramatic photo)

Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave,
(1850) (super detail)
 Yakobi, Halt of the Prisoners (1861)

Perov, Feodor
Dostoyevsky (1872) 
Surikov,
The Morning of the Execution
of the Streltsy. 1881
 Surikov, Yermak's Conquest of Siberia (1895)
 Repin, The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV (1880-1891)

Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870)
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Key
Questions
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- What changes in the Russian culture
are reflected in the shift in artistic and literary styles over the
course of the 19th century?
- What were the political, social and
economic changes occurring in Russia over the course of the 19th
Century?
- To what extent is it possible to
say that the ideas of the Enlightenment and subsequent changes of the
Industrial Revolution had not yet reached Russia by the end of the 19th
century?
- To what degree did the disconnect
between the expression of ‘high’ and ‘common’ culture of 19th century
Russia manifested in the structural problems of the Russian Empire?
- In what ways, was Russia at the end
of the 19th century ‘behind’ [backward] the rest of Europe? In what
ways were Russian intellectuals contemporary to the rest of European
society at the time?
- What was the relationship between
the changing mode of production and the values and political/social
structures being developed in Russia?
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19th
c. Russia Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
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c. Russia Art:
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c. Russia Literature:
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- Peter
the Great
on Serfdom (1721); Reforming the Church ; Table
of Ranks
- Radischev, "Journey from St. Petersburg
to Moscow" (1790)
- Chaadaev, Apology of a Madman, excerpts; First Philosophical Letter (1829)
- Belinsky, "Letter to Gogol" (1846)
- Herzen,
Letter to Michelet (1851);
On Paris (1848); From the Other Shore (1850)
- Dobrulyubov, "What is Oblomovism?" (1859) (pdf)
- Alexander II, "Emancipation Manifesto"
(1861)
- Nikitenko, Response to the Emancipation
Manifesto (1861)
- Chernyshevsky, "The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality" (1853)
- Pisarev, "Bazarov" (1862); a review of Fathers and Sons; "Plato's Idealism" (1861); Bees (1862); Popularizers of Negative Doctrines from The Ray (1866)
- Nechaev,
"Catechism of a Revolutionist"
(1869)
- Aksakov, "A Slavophile Statement"
- Bakunin, "God and the State"
(1871); “Preconditions for a Social
Revolution in Russia” (1873)
- Iartsev, "On the Movement to the People"(1873)
- Iartsev, Proclamation of a Populist Activist, 1874
- Alexander III, Manifesto
(1882)
- Letter of the Revolutionary Committee to Alexander III
- Kanatchikov, "At the Mytischensk Factory"
(1897)
- Pobedonotsev, The Ideologist of Russian
Reaction (1898)
- Pobedonostsev, Reflections of a Russian Statesman
- a
newspaper account of
the Kishinev pogrom
- Lenin, What
Is to Be Done? (1902)
excerpt (Reading About the World)
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- Falconet, Statue of Peter the Great (1788)
- Briullov,. The Last Day of Pompeii.
1830-1833
- Fedotov, Police Commissary's Reception Room the Night Before
a Holiday. (1837) ; Newly Decorated (The Morning
after the Official Has Received His First Decoration).
(1846); Portrait of Anna Zhdanovich.(1848) Major's Wedding Proposal (1851); The Portrait of Natalia Zhdanovich
at the Harpsichord (c. 1850) (more)
- Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave (1850) (More paintings)
- Perov,
Village
Easter Procession (1861); The Threesome
(1866); Portrait of the Author Feodor
Dostoyevsky (1872)
- Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga
(1870); A Peasant with an Evil Eye (1877) ; Putting a Propagandist
Under Arrest. (1880-1892); They Did Not Expect Him
(1884); Krestny Khod (Religious
Procession) in Kursk Gubernia. (1880-1883); Ivan the Terrible
and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581
(1885)
- Savrasov, The
Rooks Have Come (1871)
- Kramskoy,
Christ
in the Wilderness (1871); Village
Elder (1873)
- Surikov, The Morning of the Execution
of the Streltsy. 1881; The
Boyarynia Morozova. 1887
- Gay.
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy.
1884.
- Repin. A Shy Peasant 1877;
Ivan the Terrible and His Son
Ivan: November 16, 1581 (1885)
- Levitan, Spring Flood (1897)
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- Karamzin, Poor
Liza (1792); The Island of Bornholm (1793)
- Selected 19th c. Russian
Poetry
- From the Ends to the Beginnings: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse
- From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories By Carl R. Proffer
- Griboyedov, Woe from Wit (1823)
- Pushkin, Tales of Belkin (1829-30): "The Shot"; "The Station-master"; "Egyptian Nights"; Poetry: "The Bronze Horseman" (1833) (another translation)
(illustration) (dramatic photo) (selected poetry); Eugene Onegin (1833); Story:
"The Queen of Spades"
(1834) Drama: Boris Godunov (1825)
- Gogol, "The Nose" (1836) (another translation); The Government Inspector (1837);
"The Overcoat
" (another translation) (1842); Dead
Souls
- Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (1840); "The Angel"; "Death of a Poet"; "The Sail"; "Bored and Sad"
- Turgenev, "A Country Doctor"
(1855); A Sportsman's Sketches
(1855); Rudin , hero modeled on young Mikhail Bakunin; Fathers and Sons
(1861), hero Bazarov is the model of the nihilist radical revolutionary
- Goncharov, Oblomov (1858)
- Chernyeshevsky, What is to be Done
(1863) (Lenin, Remarks
on Books: G. V. Plekhanov, N. G. Chernyshevsky
(1910))
- Dostoevsky, Poor
Folk (1846); The
Double (1846); “A
Gentle Spirit" ;
on "The
Most Precious Thing for Man" from Notes from Underground
(1864); The Crystal Palace Model; "Raskolnikov's Terrible Dream",
Chapter 5 of Crime and Punishment
(1865); "The Parable of the Grand
Inquisitor", chapters 35 and 36 from The Brothers Karamazov
(1879) (See Holbein's Descent from the Cross)
- Leskov, Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District (1865)
- Tolstoy, Childhood
(1852); Boyhood
(1854) Youth
(1856); Sebastopol Sketches (1855); War and Peace (1865); Anna Karenina
(1878) God Sees the Truth, But
Waits; (1872);
The Death of Ivan Ilych (1882); Kreutzer
Sonata (1889)
- Chekhov, "Peasants";
"The
Kiss "; "The Lady with the Dog
" (another translation), "The
Darling" (1897); Gooseberries (1898); The Bishop (1902) ; Ward No. 6 (1903) The Betrothed ; 201 Stories by Anton Chekhov in English; Selected Checkhov Stories in English; Plays: The Sea-Gull; Uncle Vanya
(1900);
The Cherry Orchard,
Three Sisters (1904)
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- Glinka, A Life for the
Tsar, first Russian Opera, (1836); "My
dawn will soon rise;
"Slavsya!" ("Glory!") ; "Ruslan and Lyudmila"
(1842); overture ;"She is my life, she is my
joy!" ; finale
- Tchaikovky, Eugene Onegin
(1879); The Queen of Spades (1890); The
Nutcracker (1892); Symphony
#4 (Keeping Score)
- Borodin, from Prince Igor (1890);
overture; In
the Steppes of Central Asia; Polovtsian Dances
- Rimsky-Korsakov,; Scheherazade
(1888) 1. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
2. The Story of the Calendar
Prince
- Mussorgsky, Boris Gudonov
(1874); Pictures at an Exhibition
(1874); Night
On A Bald Mountain;
Boris
Godunov
- Stravinsky, Petrouchka
(1911) Introduction: 1, 2, 3, 4; Firebird
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 Repin, Krestny Khod (Religious
Procession) in Kursk Gubernia. (1880-1883)

Surikov. The
Boyarynia Morozova. 1887
 Tolstoy at his Desk

Kramskoy,
Christ
in the Wilderness (1871)

Kramskoy,
Village
Elder (1873)

Repin,
Ivan the Terrible
and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581
(1885)
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19th
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Secondary
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Secondary
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Secondary
Sources:
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Secondary
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- Parmele, A Short History of Russia
- Geography of Russia
- Johnson, The Peasant Commune in Russia
- MAP: The Growth of Russia in
Europe, 1300-1796
- The Time of Troubles (Somerville)
- "Who Was Tsar Dmitrii?", Chester
Dunning
- The First Romanovs (Somerville)
- Anisimov, Peter the Great, "Progress Through
Coercion"
- Whitaker, Peter the Great, The Reforming Tsar's Revolution
- Peter the Great's Revolution (Mosaic)
- The Building of St Petersburg - "a window
through which Russia looks on Europe" (BBC)
- Catherine
the Great - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century
Russia (BBC)
- Napoleonic guide - The Russian Campaign
- Documents in Russian History
(Seton Hall)
- Hammond, "Russia in the Time of Nicholas I"
- Kimball, The Intelligentsia
- Lenin,"In Memory of Herzen" (1912)
- Gessen, "The Revolutionist:
Alexander Herzen"
New Yorker, 10-14-06
- Berlin, "The Great Amateur" on Alexander Herzen NYRB 3-14-68; "On the Pursuit of the Ideal" NYRB 4-17-88
- Tom Stoppard's article on Herzen in the London Observer
- Kimball,
"Who Were the Petrashevtsy?"
- Moss, Alexander
II and His Times (1987)
- Avrich, The Legacy of Bakunin Russian Review, Vol. 29, No. 2. (Apr., 1970), pp. 129-142.
- Kelly, Man in the Middle NYRB 12-19-85 (on Herzen); The Fatal Charm of the Millenium NYRB 1-22-76 (on Mikhail Bakunin) ; “Mr.
Possessed” (on Sergei Nechaev) (1981) ; The Russian Sphinx NYRB 5-20-99 (on Western Understanding of Russia); Where the Dead Smiled NYRB 2-20-97 (on St. Petersburg)
- The
Assassination of Tsar Alexander II from In Our Time
(BBC Radio 4)
- Polonsky, Russian Orientalism: Asia in Russian Eyes (2011)
- Figes, What is Russia? (2011)
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- 19th-Century Russian
Literature (Brandeis)
- Naturalism (The Stone)
- Frontline: Pushkin Geneology
- Jahn, from Russian Litterature: Middle Ages to Dostoevsky: The Golden Age: Aleksandr Pushkin ; Romanticism: Mikhail Lermontov; The Rise of Prose: Nikolai Gogol
- Tikos, Dead Souls: Chapter nine
- Eichenbaum, "How
Gogol's Overcoat is Made"
- Berlin, on Herzen: "The Great Amateur" NYRB 3-14-68; Herzen’s
Circle NYRB 6-20-68;
‘A
Revolutionary Without Fanaticism’ NYRB 4-9-79; "A Letter on Human Nature" NYRB 9-23-04 ; On Turgenev: Fathers
and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament ; Part II ; Part III NYRB
11-1-73; The Gentle Genius NYRB 10-27-83
- Stoppard, "The Forgotten Revoluionary" (2002)
- Grafton, "Stoppard's Romance" NYRB (2007) review of The Coast of Utopia
- James, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Tracing Byron's Influence on the Creation and Development of the Nihilist Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
- Nabokov, Lectures
on Russian Literature (1981); Philistines
and Philistinism (1981)
- Frank, “Dostoevsky’s
Conversion” (1983)
- Dostoevsky as Philosopher
- Berdiaev: The Revelation About Man in the Creativity of Dostoevsky
- Oates, "Tragic and
Comic Visions in The Brothers Karamazov"; “Tragic
Rites In Dostoevsky's The Possessed”
(1975)
- Townsend, Dostoevsky and His Theology
- Goldfarb, Kant's Aesthetics in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
- McNeil, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Lecture
- Jahn, Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Study notes
- Hammaberg, Dostoevsky's Petersburg
- St. Petersburg on the Road to Capitalism (1840s to 1890s) Background and a Virtual Tour.
- Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand's Moral Triad
- Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury on Dostoevsky's "personalism" (2011)
- Simmons, Introduction To Tolstoy's Writings
- Tolstaya, "The Tragedy of Tolstoy"
- Wood, "Moveable Types: How War
and Peace Works" 11-26-07 New
Yorker
- Figes, Birth, death, balls and battles (2005)
- Reminiscences of Chekhov
- A Brief Biography of Anton Chekhov
- Anton Chekhov on Writing
- Boyd, A short history of the short story (2011)
- What the Critics Say About Anton Chekhov ; Chekhov's Legacy
- Romanticism vs. Realism in
Russian Literature
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