This edition publishes for the first time 348 letters from P.V. Annenkov based on archival materials from the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russi...

This edition publishes for the first time 348 letters from P.V. Annenkov based on archival materials from the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russi...

“P. V. Annenkov’s memories of Gogol are unique. This is both a memoir and at the same time a detailed critical essay, covering Gogol’s ideological and creati...

Russian literary critic, publicist, memoirist. The first Pushkin scholar in literary criticism. Friend of V. Belinsky, acquaintance of K. Marx, Bakunin, many...

The biography of A. S. Pushkin, created by Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov (1813–1887), is still considered the best, unsurpassed work in Pushkin studies. Meeting...

“...When compiling these sketches of Pushkin’s first impressions and early years, we had in mind to supplement our “Materials for the biography of A.S. Pushk...

“...These memoirs were conceived and created shortly after the death of I. S. Turgenev, which followed on September 3, 1883. This explains the form of the me...

“It is difficult to say, starting an analysis of Mr. Turgenev’s new work, which is more worthy of attention: whether it itself with all its merits, or the ex...

“...The luckiest of all was the young Prince Bolkonsky, Kutuzov’s adjutant, suffering from the emptiness of life and family grief, fame-loving and serious in...

“Two Winters in the Province and the Village” was conceived by the memoirist as a continuation of “A Wonderful Decade.” However, the continuation of the memo...

“...U gr. L.N. Tolstoy has his own constant, preconceived idea, as we will see below, but the ways of carrying this idea into literature, treating it and exp...

“...Creations based on the life and customs of the common people have noticeably proliferated in all forms, and have already begun to form a bright and, let’...