Essays Tagged: "Alexander Pushkin"
Alexander Pushkins
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on May 26, 1799. In 1811 he was selected to be among the thirty students ... al and then to exile to South Russia, under the guise of an administrative transfer in the service. Pushkin left Petersburg for Ekaterinoslave on May 6, 1820. Soon after his arrival there he traveled ... Caucasus and the Crimea with the family of General Raevsky. During almost three years in Kishinev, Pushkin wrote his first Byronic verse tales, "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1820-1821), "The Bandit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
This is a term paper for Western World Lit II (The Tragedy of Greed) Complete with Work Cited page
In the 1820's, a great literary author was emerging in Russia. Alexander Sengeevich Pushkin, with his varied style of writing, soon became a leader in Russian lite ... ly leads to destruction and never has a positive outcome.Work Cited:Debreczeny, Paul. "Introduction"Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose FictionStandford: Standford University Press, 1983.Galenet Literat ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Master of his own fate "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin
Master of his own fateThe first thing that struck me about "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin is its elegant simplicity. In less than thirty pages, Pushkin has managed to portr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
19th century Russian writers and how they dealt with the Western Influence of that time.
d some of the finest achievements in Russian literature. The first great national author of Russia, Alexander Pushkin, despite his admiration of Russian history and folklore, was profoundly influenced ... h can be matched with that of Goethe in Germany or even Shakespeare in England.The Great Reforms of Alexander II have contributed their part of influence on literature that cannot be forgotten. They s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Alexander Pushkin,
Alexander Sergyeevich PushkinPushkin the Russian 19th century author is considered his country's gre ... wife's frivolous social life which led to his untimely death was a catastrophe for the poetic world.Alexander sergyevic pushkin was born on 16th may, 1779 in Moscow, Russia. Pushkin's father was desce ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Essay on Romanticism
Other leading romantic figures were Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni in Italy, and Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov in Russia. The British Romantic Period is also referred to the French ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"The Snow Storm."
ing continually. As the streets filled up, everyone became scared. What if it never stopped snowing?Pushkin's College. It is one of the most famous colleges in the whole city. It had many students. Th ... hey approached the white library building. Its walls had various sculptures of poets; they included Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Gogol and many others. When Alex and Marina entered the Public library, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Russian Culture: A look at its Religion and Art
Russian genius for blending foreign and native art forms produced the romantic poetry of Aleksandr Pushkin; the realist novels of Nikolay Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy; an ... y Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Mussorgsky. (Microsoft Encarta)Of these individuals, it was Aleksandr Pushkin who started the trend in what has become Russian literature. The advances made in his period ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Madness of the main characters in Maupassant's "Horla" and Pushkin's "Queens of Spades"
g qualities: realism or a preoccupation with fantasy and the supernatural. Maupassant's "Horla" and Pushkin's "Queen of Spades" both embodied fantastic elements; however in my view, the supernatural i ... his occupation. Maupassaunt tries to direct reader's attention on the inner world of the character. Pushkin's character is a young officer. "Hermann was the son of a German who had become a Naturalize ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The Queen Of Spades
Pushkin "The Queen of Spades" Alexander Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" manipulates the readers' expectations in many ways through ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The queen of spades, pushkin
oe-Selo, the site of the Czar's summer palace. This special school had recently been established by Alexander I (the Czar who defeated Napoleon) to educate the sons of prominent families with an eye t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Misha Baryshnikov
ter. In 1963, he was asked to join the Riga dance troupe, through which he toured Leningrad and met Alexander Pushkin. Even though Misha was technically short for a dancer, (he was only 5'7'') he was ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors