ADVANCED RUSSIAN

CHAPTER 4

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SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS

Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov

(grammar)
An Interactive Online Russian Reference Grammar. By Robert Beard (Bucknell University).
See the section on "Nouns and the Gender Gap" and "Gender and Agreement", and check all about the "Nominative Case" in the section "The Case Functions in Brief". Some irregularities of the nominative case can be found in the section "Noun Irregularities". .

(conversation help)
What do you put on when you are going to a party?. Chpt. from Conversation Course by Evgeny Shtephan.

APPEARANCE


(The following images are all from George Mitrevsky's site at Auburn University.)
[Describe some of the following people - what they have on as well as other aspects of their appearance.]

(women)
A Young Girl in Russian Costume. Portrait by Nikolai Alexeev.
Anna Akhmatova. Portrait by Nathan Altman.
Peasant Woman in Russian Costume. Portrait by Argunov.
Self-Portrait with the Artist's Sister. Portrait by Borisov-Muratov.
Maria Lopukhina. Portrait by Vladimir Borovikovsky.
Svetlana a Russian Girl Telling Her Fortune. Portrait by Karl Briullov.
Countess Samoilova. Portrait by Karl Briullov.
Girl with Peaches. Portrait by Valentin Serov.
Chorus Girl. Portrait by Konstantin Korovin, 1883.

(men)
Alexander Kurakin. Portrait by Vladimir Borovikovsky.
Ivan the Terrible. Portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov.
Alexander Pushkin. Portrait by Vasily Tropinin.
Rimsky-Korsakov. Portrait by Valentin Serov.
Portrait of Tsar Nicholas. Portrait by Valentin Serov, 1900.
Portrait of Ivan Morozov. Portrait by Valentin Serov, 1910.
Mussorgsky. Portrait by Ilya Repin.
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Self Portrait, 1918.
Dostoevsky. Portrait by Vasily Perov.
Tolstoy. Portrait by Leonid Pasternak.

ANATOMY


The Human Body. A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body. From Lexicon Publishers. Includes notes on Semantics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexical Relationships, Sample Texts. [A#1 useful!]

CLOTHING


Russian Fashion Steps out of the Shadows. Brief article from the BBC News, Dec. 19, 1997.

(In Russian)
Au. Site of links to the Russian fashion world.
Moda v Permi. Fashion in Perm'. Models, notes on fashion, etc.

RUSSIAN NAMES


A Dictionary of Period Russian Names. Posted by Paul Wickenden of Thanet . Copyright Paul Goldschmidt. Includes an explanation of the grammar of names. [Excellent source!]
Russian Names and their Nicknames. From Vladimir Gurov.

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