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turgenev: legacy of the emancipator

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Dave

Ivan Turgenev will be remembered as the great emancipator of the Russian serf, a parallel condition to that of the American slave. Turgenev helped bring freedom to the serfs by the ingeniously devastating method of showing what their lives were … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Turgenev Fathers & Sons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Vissarion Belinski | Leave a comment

turgenev: fighting for the serf on his turf

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Dave

Ivan Turgenov was Russia’s great emancipator. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by the devastating method of showing what their lives were like through his short stories… ..As A Sportman’s Sketches appeared one by one in The Contemporary, their … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Czar Nicholas I, Gogol Dead Souls, Gogol Russian writer, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Vavara Petrovna | Leave a comment

WHEN MEMORIES WERE CHEAP LIKE BORSCHT

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Dave

”Let them eat caviar” supposedly said by Czar Nicholas II upon learning that the peasants were starving. Although there is no record of these words ever having been uttered, it is plausible that he could say them…. Many nefarious claims … Continue reading →