MIRACLE, MYSTERY, AUTHORITY!

To weekly assignments: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14].

Week 1 (Jan. 20, 21, 23)

MONDAY - January 20

(History before Peter-the-Great. Moscow. The Kremlin.)

TUESDAY - January 21

(Peter-the-Great's childhood. Moscow. The Kremlin. Kolomenskoe. Preobrazhenskoe. Peter's Russia. Zemski sobor. Domostroy. Sophia. Streltsy. Russian crowns. Russian Language.)

THURSDAY - January 23

(Peter-the-Great. Warfare: 17th, 18th cents. The Geography. The Baltic. Flora and Fauna. The Founding of St. Petersburg. Peter-Paul Fortress. Peter-Paul Cathedral. Peter's cabin. Kronstadt. Admiralty. Menshikov. Catherine I.)

Week 2 (Jan.27, 28, 30)

MONDAY - January 27

Peter-the-Great. Poltava. Vasilevsky Island. Menshikov Palace. Peter's Winter Palace. Peter's Summer Palace. Summer Garden. Peterhof. Oranienbaum.)

TUESDAY - January 28

(Peter-the-Great. Peter's son Alexis. Imperial Art. Decorative Arts.)

THURSDAY - January 30

(Peter-the-Great. State Service. Senate. Synod. Table of Ranks. Reforms. Orthodox Church. Icons. Kunstkamera. Menshikov's Fall. Peter's Successors. Peter's Continuing Legacy.)

Week 3 (Feb. 3, 4, 6)

MONDAY - February 3

(Catherine-the-Great; 18th Century Culture; Winter Palace / Hermitage; Marble Palace; Field of Mars)

TUESDAY - February 4

[IT Workshop on "PowerPoint" (in our classroom)]

THURSDAY - February 6

(The Hermitage (cont.)-Catherine the Great: art collector; Catherine's Palace; Paul; Paul's Palace; Engineer's Castle; The Environs of St. Petersburg. The end of the 18th Century)

Week 4 (Feb. 10, 11, 13)

MONDAY - February 10

(Pushkin; The Bronze Horseman Statue; War of 1812 (Napoleon; Battle of Borodino); The Decembrists; St. Isaac's Cathedral)

TUESDAY - February 11

(Gogol; Nevsky Prospekt; Gostiny dvor; Passage; first half of the century; Alexander I; Nicholas I and his Russia)

THURSDAY - February 13

(Gogol; Kazan Cathedral; bridges; rivers and canals)

Week 5 (Feb. 17, 18, 20)

MONDAY - February 17

(Dostoevsky. "White Nights" in Petersburg. 19th Cent. Writers on St. Petersburg. Alexander Nevsky Monastery.)

TUESDAY - February 18

(Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground)

THURSDAY - February 20

(Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky's Petersburg: The Haymarket District)

Week 6 (February 24, 25, 27)

MONDAY - February 24

EXAM - IN CLASS ESSAY

TUESDAY - February 25

PowerPoint Workshop - Create one slide (with Bib)

THURSDAY - February 27

(Petersburg Artists. Sadovnikov. Briullov. Vereshchagin. "The Wanderers": Kramskoy, Ge, Repin, Kuindzhi. Benois.)

Week 7 (March 3, 4, 6)

MONDAY - March 3

(The Art Museums of Russia)

TUESDAY - March 4

GUESTS(?) (St. Petersburg Composers and Musicians. Glinka. Dargomyzhsky. "The Mighty Five": Borodin, Cui, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov. Tchaikovsky. Rubinstein. Alexander II. Alexander III. The End of the Century. Revolutionary Stirrings.)

THURSDAY - March 6

(Early 20th Century. Nicholas and Alexandra. Theater and Art.)

Week 8 (March 10, 11, 13)

MONDAY - March 10

(Biely's St. Petersburg. Russo-Japanese War. The 1905 Revolution. Palace Square.)

TUESDAY - March 11

(Biely's St. Petersburg. When life was easy for the Tsar.)

THURSDAY - March 13

(Biely's St. Petersburg. The Symbolists and Acmeists)

Spring Break

Week 9 (March 24, 25, 27)

MONDAY - March 24

(Biely's St. Petersburg)

TUESDAY - March 25

(Biely's St. Petersburg)

THURSDAY - March 27

(Biely's St. Petersburg. Ivanov's "The Tower". Altman's paintings. "The Stray Dog" [cafe]. Anna Vrubova.)

Week 10 (March 31, April 1, 3)

MONDAY - March 31

LIBRARY RESEARCH WORKSHOP [Meet just inside the main entrance to the library (please be prompt)]

TUESDAY - April 1

The Romanov Clan. The Tsar's Problems. Rasputin. Stolypin. WWI. End of an Era.)

THURSDAY - April 3

(The Revolutionary Era. The Tsar's Abdication. The Provisional Government. Kerensky. The 1917 Revolution. Lenin. Krupskaya.

Week 11 (April 7, 8, 10)

MONDAY - April 7

(The Immediate Aftermath of the Revolution in St. Petersburg. NEP. The Fate of the Arts. The Diaspora. The Revolution Reflected in Contemporary Literature.)

TUESDAY - April 8

(The Fate of the Tsar and his Family. Civil War. Trotsky. Foreign Intervention. The Soviet Union and the U.S.)

THURSDAY - April 10

DUE: Final Web Project (preliminary) Bibliography (print and web resources)

(The Stalin Years. The Purges. The Gulag. The Cult of Stalin. Film. Eisenstein. Akhmatova. Zoshchenko. Ilf and Petrov. Socialist Realism.)

Week 12 (April 14, 15, 17)

MONDAY - April 14

(WWII. The Siege of Leningrad. The War Years Reflected in the Arts. WWII in Film and Still Images. Shostakovich. Inber.)

TUESDAY - April 15

GUEST SPEAKER(?)

HTML BASICS WORKSHOP [Come with some text, a .jpg or .gif file (picture/clip art) and some link addresses.]

THURSDAY - April 17

DUE! Rough (text) draft of the final project

(20th Century Leningrad/Petersburg Writers and Poets: Brodsky. Bitov. Mitki. Review of Other Writers/Poets.)

Week 13 (April 21, 22, 24)

MONDAY - April 21

WEB PAGE WORKSHOP - begin to build your web project!

(Bring your files on a disc, if they are not on your "p" drive. Bring, too, the handouts dealing with creating web sites.)

TUESDAY - April 22

(Music Under Soviet Rule. Post-War Leningrad. Leningrad After Stalin: 50's, 60's.
Khrushchev's Russia. Brodsky. Baryshnikov. Children's Literature.)

THURSDAY - April 24

DUE! PowerPoint Presentation (on one day's assignment)

(Leningrad/St. Petersburg of the 70's, 80's, 90's: Feminists; Rockers; Writers; Artists)