Classics of Russian Literature

Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into this extraordinary body of work under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University, an award-winning teacher at Northwestern University and a legend among educators in the United States and Russia. Professor Weil introduces you to such masterpieces as Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Gogol's Dead Souls, Chekhov's The Seagull, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and many other great novels, stories, plays, and poems by Russian authors. You will study more than 40 works by a dozen writers, from Aleksandr Pushkin in the 19th century to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the 20th. You will also investigate the origin of Russian literature itself, which traces to powerful epic poetry and beautiful renderings of the Bible into Slavic during the Middle Ages.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 411343
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired January 1, 2006
  • Recent January 1, 2006
  • Network The Great Courses
  • Average Runtime 32 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites Official Website
  • Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
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