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.
(English Language Sources)
"The Shot". Text from from The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin, London: George Bell and Sons, 1895.
"The Shot". Text from the print version: Pushkin, Alexander "The Shot." The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin. Trans. T. Keane. Short Story Index Reprint Series. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. 327-343
English Translation of Alexander Pushkin. Translations for down loading. Translators: C. Johnston, D. Litoshick, M. Kneller. From the site Lib.Ru
Eugene Onegin. Links to e-texts and excerpts, commentaries, the opera, interpreters, audio samples, others works based on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. From Karen Mercedese.
Eugene Onegin. Texts in Russian and English, (nicely) illustrated. From a site called simply "Pushkin's Poems". An unrhymed, literal translation from G. R. Ledger.
What's Gained in Translation. A brief discussion of several translations of Eugene Onegin from The New York Times Books, byline Douglas Hofstadter.
Ralph Fiennes: Pushkin Comes to Shove. Notes on Fiennes movie and how he made it.
Excerpts from Onegin's Travels. From "Russia on Line" [In Russian]
Eugene Onegin. Opera Synopsis. Courtesy of Arizona Opera.
Eugene Onegin at the MET. From the Metropolitan Opera Archives.
Eugene Onegin. Latvian National Opera. [Nice synopsis of the opera]
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. Synopsis of Tchaikovsky's opera. © Russian Sunbirds, Inc. Includes some pictures of laquer boxes based on the opera.
Scenes from Tschaikovsky's operas. Including two scenes from Eugene Onegin (from Alexei Lyudmilin's Home Page).
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. From the "Master and Margarita" website at Middlebury. Includes some audio excerpts from the the Bolshoi Theatre.
Tatiana's letter scene (excerpt)(MP3) or Tatiana's letter scene (excerpt)(WAVE). From the Arizona Virtual Opera House.
Mark Reizen. Includes him singing Gremin's aria. From the "Little Russia" site.
Nikolay Gedda. Includes his singing of Lenski's aria. From the "Little Russia" site.
Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov. Includes his rendition of Lensky's aria. From the "Little Russia" site.
Poetry. 20 poems in English and Russian, along with many other poems collected by the year (only in Russian).
The Pushkin Page. Collection...also by year.
A Collection of Poems by Pushkin. Page created and maintained by Edward Bonver. Poems translated by Genia Gurarie and others.
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Electronic library of Pushkin's poems.
Our little electronic Pushkiana. Links (in Russian).
(English Language Sources)
Novels and Stories. (The Captain's Daughter. Dubrovsky. The Snowstorm. The Station-Master. Peter the Great's Negro. The Queen of Spades.) From Russica.
Prose. Tales. Poetry. Links to several texts [In Russian] [Watch the picture of Pushkin blink at you!]
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Electronic library includes Pushkin's poems, fairy tales, Evgenij Onegin, and the story "Queen of Spades".
200th birthday. From "Russian Culture Navigator" links to articles on Pushkin (to mark the 200th birthday anniversay of Pushkin).
Pushkin's Biography. Adapted from J. Thomas Shaw's The Letters of Alexander Pushkin, Volume 1.
June 6, 1999. 200th Anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's Birth. Several articles.
The Year of Pushkin goes on. The Chronicle of Pushkin's Jubilee.
'Pushkinmania' pervades Russia. Article for the Indian Express Front Page by Marina Lapenkova.
Pushkin. This page (by Katharena Eiermann) includes links to Pushkin's literature, essays and reviews about Pushkin, and more information on Pushkin.
Home Page of Aleksandr Pushkin. One poem in English plus a few links to other Pushkin sites.
The Pushkin Page. By Stephany Gould. Has links to categories: Pushkin's Life, Texts, Pushkin and Culture [gives you a list of opera scores based on Pushkin;s works], Humour.
Alexander Pushkin. English and Russian film adaptations of his works: a list of films/TV shows.
Pushkin and Gogol. A brief "verbal exchange" between Pushkin and Gogol by Daniil Kharms. [Humor]
All Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin. Visits to three Pushkin places - text and pictures. Includes Pushkin quotes and a bit about his life in these places. [In Russian]
Andrei Bitov on Pushkin the Gambler. Russian writer speaks about Pushkin's addiction to gambling. [In Russian]
The Gambling Life of Pushkin in Documents. Russian contemporaries of Pushkin remark on his addiction to gambling. [In Russian]
The Golden Age: Aleksandr Pushkin. Useful study notes on the Golden Age of Russian Poetry by Professor Gary R. Jahn at the University of Minnesota.
Pushkin and Music. Brief article by Nina Yakhgontova. On the "Russian Culture Navigator."
Portrait of N. N. Pushkina, nee Goncharova. Watercolor by Alexander Brulloff. Posted on the "Olga's Gallery" page.
Portrait of Alexander Pushkin. Oil on canvas by Orest Kiprensky. Posted on the "Olga's Gallery" page.
Portrait of Alexander Pushkin. Oil on canvase by Vasily Tropinin. Posted on the "Olga's Gallery" page.
Alexander Pushkin in the Coffin. Black chalk on paper by Feodor Bruni. Posted on the "Olga's Gallery" page.
Alexander Pushkin on a Park Bench. Graphite, watercolor, whitewash on paper. Posted on the "Olga's Gallery" page.
Pushkin Sights in Moscow. By Olga Bobrova. On the "Russian Culture Navigator" site.
Poetry. Pushkin in Mihailowskoe. Seven pages of images of Pushkin and pictures of some memorabilia.
St. Petersburg of Alexander Pushkin. A few paragraphs from the "Russian Culture Navigator" site.
Alexander Pushkin at Tsarskoe Selo. Portrait by Ilya Repin (on George Mitrevski's web site).
Portrait of Alexander Pushkin. By Vasily Tronpinin (on George Mitrevski's web site).
Portrait of Alexander Pushkin. By Orest Kiprensky (on George Mitrevski's web site).
Government Museum of A. S. Pushkin. Pictures and text about Pushkin and the Russian Memorial Museum in the heart of Moscow. Shows life in Moscow in the 1830's and memorial rooms (where Pushkin once lived). [In English and Russian]
Boldino: A. S. Pushkin. The wallpaper in P's house there...really! From veraigor@voicenet.com .
Pushkin statue. At the town of Pushkin. Photo by Andrey Pakhomov.
Monument to Aleksander Pushkin. In Odessa.
"Queen of Spades". Illustration by Alexander Levitus.
Pushkin Memorial Museum. In the center of Moscow, Arbat St.
Museum-Apartment of A. S. Pushkin. Text and pictures. Shows where Pushkin lived the last few years of his life in St. Petersburg. You can see pictures of his study and the leather couch on which he died (clock stopped at the time of his death), a lock of his hair, death mask, the vest he was wearing when shot, etc. [In Russian]
Lyceum-Museum. Text and pictures of Tsarskoe selo. For six years Pushkin attended the lyceum there (in a building attached to Catherine's palace). Pictures of some of Pushkin's mentors and fellow students. [In Russian]
Dacha-Museum. Text and pictures of Pushkin's "dacha." See pictures of the rooms and the area of Tsarskoe selo where he spent the summer of 1931 with h is wife. Here he worked on some of his fairy tales, and readied some of his other works ("The Belkin Tales," adding Tatiana's letter to Onegin to Eugene Onegin...) for publication. Also included pictures of Pushkin, his wife and his friends. [In Russian]
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