AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.


M. Yu. Lermontov (1814-1841)


READINGS FOR THE COURSE


"Taman"

Taman. The text in English. From Russian Literature on line (as is the entire novel).


POETRY


(English Language Sources)

Michael Lermontov: Poems. "The Lay of Tsar Ivan Vassilyevich, His Young Oprichnik and the Stouthearted Merchant Kalashnikov." Also includes "Mtsyri" (The Novice) and "The Demon" (in English and Russian). And a series of shorter poems (over 20 poems in English) on the Friends and Partners site here.

A Collection of Poems by Mikhail Lermontov. Five poems, including "The Angel" and "The Sail". From Yevgeny Bonver.

Lermontov's Poems Two poems in English and Russian from the site Pushkin's poems.

Poems by Lermontov. Eight poems, including "The Angel" and "The Sail."


(Russian Language Sources)

Michael Lermontov - Poetry. Links to Russian sources of Lermontov's poems posted on the Friends and Partners site.


ON LERMONTOV AND HIS WORKS - GENERAL INFORMATION


(English Language Sources)

Michael Lermontov. Links to books on/by Lermontov along with brief introduction to his work. From Friends and Partners.

Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. Essays by Hannes Heino on the novel.

Mikhail (Yuryevich) Lermontov. A page from "Books and Writers."

Biography. From the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.


(Russian Language Sources)


LECTURES, ARTICLES AND STUDY NOTES ON LERMONTOV

"Romanticism: Mikhail Lermontov". Useful study notes (including some questions) on Romanticism from from Professor Gary R. Hahn (University of Minnesota).

"Lermontov And The Omniscience Of Narrators". By David A. Goldfarb [You can learn something of how "Taman" fits into the rest of Lermontov's novel, Hero of Our Time by reading this article] Copyright © 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved.


PICTURES OF LERMONTOV / TOURS OF LERMONTOV PLACES

Tarkchany: The State Lermontov national park-museum. Take a nice tour of "The estate surroundings," "Biographies," "The Funds[sic]," and "The exhibitions" to see all kinds of photos, portraits, memorabilia, etc. of Lermontov.

Painting by P.E. Zabolotskij (1837). (From Funet.)

Moscow, M. Molshankovka,2. The home of M. Lermontov...shows off his wallpaper (yes, really!) From veraigor@voicenet.com.

Mikhail Lermontov. Some illustrations to his works posted on "Olga's Gallery" page.


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