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Week 10 (March 29, 30, April 1) - Assignments

[Mon], [Tues], [Thurs]

To other weekly assignments: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [11], [12], [13], [14].

MONDAY - March 29

(Biely's St. Petersburg)

READINGS:

Biely. St. Petersburg. [Novel] Chpt.6-7 (86pp.)

In Class Writing Assignment (at beginning of class): Choose ONE of the following sections ...

Chpt. 6 Section 9: "The Caryatid" (pp.205-206)
Chpt. 6 Section 16: "Petersburg" (p.227 bottom from: "The visitor had become a mere patch..."-p.229)
Chpt. 7 Section 11: "An Ordinary Man" (p.264 bottom from: "Instead of a son..."-p.266)
Chpt. 7 Section 16: "Cockroaches" (pp.278-279)

and write an essay on what it shows about the characters, themes, and style of the novel.

TUESDAY - March 30

DUE: Research Project (preliminary) Bibliography (print and online scholarly resources)

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Karen Duffy

ASSIGNMENTS:

Before class, read Dr. Duffy's introduction and the discussion last year's class had with her online in the "Discussion Board" section on Blackboard

In preparation Thursday's assignment of writing questions for our first online interview (with Chris Hamilton who is currently working and living in St. Petersburg), read the introduction and the discussion previous classes has had with him online in the "Discussion Board" section on Blackboard.

THURSDAY - April 1

(Biely's St. Petersburg. "The Stray Dog" [cafe]. Nicholas and Alexandra. Anna Vrubova. Nicholas and Alexandra. Stolypin. WWI.)

READINGS:

Biely. St. Petersburg. [Novel] Chpt.8 & Epilogue (27pp)

George. St. Petersburg: Russia's Window to the Future.... Chapter 11: "Wartime: Petersburg Becomes Petrograd" (pp.409-411); Chapter 12: "The Last Gasps of Imperial St. Petersburg" (pp.431-434)

Massie. Nicholas and Alexandra Chpts.22, 23, 24 (pp.362-367), 25 (54pp)

WEB TOPICS:

The Stray Dog [cafe]
*The St Petersburg Legacy: A portrait of a city through its poetry and music. Article by Andrew J Horton.
Anna Vrubova
*Anna Vyrubova [sic]. Page on Vryubova from Bob Atchison's site on the "Alexander Palace: Time Machine."
Hillwood Museum and Gardens. Homepage. A brief mention of how the friendship of Anna Vrubova and Tsarina Alexandra inspired Marjorie Meriweather Post.
Stolypin
The Stolypin Agrarian Reform. Excerpts (with a link to the full sources). From California Polytechnic State University.
Photograph of Piotr Stolypin. From the exhibition "The Affairs of State" (an exhibition from Broughton International & the State hermitage Museum."
WWI
Tzarist Russia in the War. Chpt.2 from Leon Trotsky's The History of the Russian Revolution. Volume One: the Overthrow of Tzarism.
The German Declaration of War on Russia. Presented by the German Ambassador to St. Petersburg (1 August, 1914). From the "World War I Document Archive."
Posters from the Great War: Russia. Two Russian posters from WWI. From the site: "Trenches on the Web" (Mike Iavarone).
The Willy-Nicky Telegrams. Telegrams from 19 July - 1 August, 1914, in the original English. From the "World War I Document Archive."
3 March, 1918: The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. From the "World War I Document Archive."
Brest-Litrovsk. From the page by David Barnsdale: "Was Stalinism Implicit in October? A Green view on the Bolshevik Revolution.
28 June, 1919: The Peace Treaty of Versailles. From the "World War I Document Archive."

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