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Bolshaya Lubyanka (until the middle of the 19th century - part of Sretenka Street, now its direct continuation, in 1926-1990 - Dzerzhinsky Street) - a street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Passes from Lubyanka Square to Sretensky Gate. House numbers are from Lubyanka Square.
The name Lubyanka was first mentioned in the annals in 1480, it was given in honor of the Novgorod region - Lubyanits, after Ivan III ordered the Novgorodians who were evicted to Moscow after the fall of the republic to settle in the area of the present Lubyanka Square. There are also versions about the origin of the name from the area on which the lubok or bast was removed from the trees, from military supplies that existed under the name of bast mines that were made in this area, or from bast shields used in old times during fires. Then the street was formed, leading in the north-east direction from the square; however, for a long time the whole street from Lubyanskaya to Sukharevskaya Square was called Sretenka along the ancient Sretensky Monastery, which was located on this street.
The street formed on the way from Moscow to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, the beginning of which she served. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries merchants and craftsmen lived here (then still on Sretenka), and in the eighteenth century chambers of the nobility began to be erected here. The fire of 1812 did not affect the street. In the XIX century, it began to acquire a commercial and business appearance; instead of the old houses, many high stone houses were erected here, but, as a rule, a strict and modest appearance.
Sretensky Boulevard - a boulevard in the Krasnoselsky District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, part of the Boulevard Ring. Passes from Sretensky Gate Square to Turgenevskaya Square. On the inside, Milyutinsky and Frolov lanes adjoin the boulevard, and Kostyansky on the outside. The numbering of houses is from the area of Sretensky gate. The boulevard is the shortest on the Boulevard Ring (214 m)
The boulevard was created in 1830 on the site of the walls of the White City demolished in the 1780s. The slope on the outside of the boulevard is the remainder of the rampart. “In 1850, of the 17 buildings facing the outer passage of the boulevard, 12 were stone and only 5 were wooden. At the end of the XIX century. wooden structures were no longer visible ”. In 1899-1902, in the quarter between Milyutinsky and Frolov Lanes, two huge buildings of the building of the Rossiya Insurance Company were built. In the 1880s, horse-drawn lines were laid along the boulevard; in 1911 it was replaced by a tram. In the late 1940s, a monument was laid on the boulevard of the Stalinist party leader A. S. Shcherbakov, but was never installed. In 1952, the boulevard was reconstructed: new trees were planted, flowerbeds were planted. In 1971, the tram line was removed from the boulevard. In 1976, a monument to N.K. Krupskaya was erected at the beginning of the boulevard. From the late 1970s until 1995, at the end of the boulevard, an administrative building was built, eventually acquired by Lukoil. On December 29, 2007, the Sretensky Boulevard metro station was opened.
Turgenevskaya Square is part of the Boulevard Ring and extends from Sretensky Boulevard in the west to Myasnitsky Gates in the east. At the beginning of the square from the center Frolov Pereulok overlooks it, and on the contrary begins Academician Sakharov Avenue. In the west, the square crosses Myasnitskaya street, which separates it from the Myasnitsky Gates square. On the square is the Turgenevskaya metro station and car parking.
The area formed by the intersection of Sretensky Boulevard and Myasnitskaya Street in 1885 was named Turgenevskaya in honor of the writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883). In the same year, the I. Turgenev Library-Reading Room was opened on the square - one of the first free libraries in Moscow, which soon turned into a noticeable cultural center of the capital, and in the 1950s became the center for collecting and studying the literary heritage of I. S. Turgenev; the Turgenev commission was working with her.
In the summer of 1933, construction of the first section of the Kirovskaya metro station began near Turgenevskaya Square. In 1935, the lobby of the Kirovskaya station was opened on the site of the demolished hotel on the neighboring Kirovsky Vorota Square (until 1934, the Butcher Gate).
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Russian literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', Russia or the Soviet Union. Roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama. Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Prose was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. The poets most often associated with the Silver Age are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.
After the Revolution of 1917, Russian literature split into Soviet and white émigré parts. While the Soviet Union assured universal literacy and a highly developed book printing industry, it also enforced ideological censorship. In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style. Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most successful works of Russian literature. Alexander Fadeyev achieved success in Russia. Various émigré writers, such as poets Vladislav Khodasevich, Georgy Ivanov and Vyacheslav Ivanov; novelists such as Mark Aldanov, Gaito Gazdanov and Vladimir Nabokov; and short story Nobel Prize winning writer Ivan Bunin, continued to write in exile. The Khrushchev Thaw brought some fresh wind to literature and poetry became a mass cultural phenomenon. This thaw did not last long; in the 1970s, some of the most prominent authors were banned from publishing and prosecuted for their anti-Soviet sentiments.
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The Production of Knowledge in the USSR - The Riddle of Russian Creativity by Dr. Loren Graham
The Production of Knowledge in the USSR was an academic conference held at the University of Chicago on June 10-11, 2019. This keynote address, titled The Riddle of Russian Creativity, was given by Dr. Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus at MIT.
Nazi-Looted Books Still Far from Home
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted tells the tale of large collections of books confiscated by the Nazis from individuals and institutions during the 1930s and early 1940s and secreted away in storage facilities around the Third Reich. Grimsted discussed the logistical and legal issues involved in repatriating the confiscated books to the heirs of their original owners.
Speaker Biography: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is senior research associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. Grimsted is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet archives and the founder of ArcheoBiblioBase, an online guide to Russian archives.
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The Torrents of Spring Audiobook by Ivan Turgenev | Audiobook with subtitles
The Torrents of Spring
Ivan TURGENEV , translated by Constance GARNETT
The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. It is widely held as one Turgenev's greatest novels as well as being highly autobiographical in nature. - Summary by Wikipedia
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- Socrates
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Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama. Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Prose was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. The poets most often associated with the Silver Age are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.
After the Revolution of 1917, Russian literature split into Soviet and white émigré parts. While the Soviet Union assured universal literacy and a highly developed book printing industry, it also enforced ideological censorship. In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style. Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most successful works of Russian literature. Alexander Fadeyev achieved success in Russia. Various émigré writers, such as poets Vladislav Khodasevich, Georgy Ivanov and Vyacheslav Ivanov; novelists such as Mark Aldanov, Gaito Gazdanov and Vladimir Nabokov; and short story Nobel Prize-winning writer Ivan Bunin, continued to write in exile. Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, like Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the gulag camps. The Khrushchev Thaw brought some fresh wind to literature and poetry became a mass cultural phenomenon. This thaw did not last long; in the 1970s, some of the most prominent authors were banned from publishing and prosecuted for their anti-Soviet sentiments.
The end of the 20th century was a difficult period for Russian literature, with few distinct voices. Among the most discussed authors of this period were Victor Pelevin, who gained popularity with short stories and novels, novelist and playwright Vladimir Sorokin, and the poet Dmitri Prigov. In the 21st century, a new generation of Russian authors appeared, differing greatly from the postmodernist Russian prose of the late 20th century, which lead critics to speak about new realism.
Russian authors have significantly contributed to numerous literary genres. Russia has five Nobel Prize in literature laureates. As of 2011, Russia was the fourth largest book producer in the world in terms of published titles. A popular folk saying claims Russians are the world's most reading nation.
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Российская Империя: Александр II, часть 2. [12/16] [Eng Sub]
Российская Империя. Александр II. Часть вторая.
* Охота на царя — зарождение русского терроризма.
* Петербург Достоевского.
* Русско-турецкая война.
* Передвижники и «Могучая кучка».
* Роман с Екатериной Долгорукой.
* Убийство царя 1 марта 1881-го года.
Moscow State University | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:08 1 History
00:01:18 1.1 Imperial Moscow University
00:06:47 1.2 Moscow State University
00:09:36 2 Campus
00:15:40 3 Faculties
00:19:06 4 Transport connections
00:20:02 5 Institutions and research centers
00:20:56 6 Staff and students
00:21:54 7 Academic reputation
00:25:53 8 Famous alumni and faculty
00:26:40 9 See also
00:27:22 10 Notes and references
00:27:32 11 External links
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Moscow State University (MSU; Russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ) is a coeducational and public research university located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded on 23 January [O.S. 12 January] 1755 by Mikhail Lomonosov. MSU was renamed after Lomonosov in 1940 and was then known as Lomonosov University. It also houses the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy. According to the 2018 QS World University Rankings, it is the highest-ranking Russian educational institution and is widely considered the most prestigious university in the former Soviet Union.
Российская империя. Серия 13. Александр III
Российская империя. Проект Леонида Парфёнова
Александр III
Самый русский царь.
Антилиберализм при Александре.
Александр-миротворец.
Экономический подъём при Александре.
Земства, эпоха «малых дел».
Железнодорожный бум в России, крушение царского поезда, строительство Транссиба.
Художественные и музыкальные пристрастия Александра.
Смерть в Ливадии.
A LEAR of the STEPPES, ETC by Ivan Turgenev | Audiobook with subtitles
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00:30 | 0 - Introduction
15:30 | 1 - A Lear of the Steppes 1 - 3
31:37 | 2 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 4 - 6
44:59 | 3 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 7 - 9
57:07 | 4 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 10 - 12
1:22:51 | 5 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 13 - 15
1:46:03 | 6 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 16 - 18
2:07:25 | 7 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 19 - 21
2:22:35 | 8 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 22 - 24
2:46:30 | 9 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 25 - 27
3:08:26 | 10 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 28 - 31
3:30:51 | 11 - Faust First Letter
3:45:33 | 12 - Faust Second Letter
4:02:14 | 13 - Faust Third Letter
4:12:17 | 14 - Faust Fourth Letter
4:29:05 | 15 - Faust Fifth Letter
4:37:38 | 16 - Faust Sixth Letter
4:50:04 | 17 - Faust Seventh & Eighth Letters
4:55:52 | 18 - Faust Ninth Letter
5:19:02 | 19 - Acia Parts 1 and 2
5:39:06 | 20 - Acia Parts 3 and 4
5:54:40 | 21 - Acia Parts 5 and 6
6:03:43 | 22 - Acia Parts 7 and 8
6:22:06 | 23 - Acia Parts 9 and 10
6:32:39 | 24 - Acia Parts 11 and 12
6:39:46 | 25 - Acia Parts 13 and 14
6:49:01 | 26 - Acia Parts 15 and 16
7:00:36 | 27 - Acia Parts 17 to 20
7:07:51 | 28 - Acia Parts 21 and 22
A Lear of the Steppes, etc.
Ivan TURGENEV , translated by Constance GARNETT
This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father makes a life-altering decision with consequences unforeseen by him. FAUST begins at Section 11. In a series of letters to a friend the writer recounts his chance meeting with a married woman whom he had known years earlier when both were single and committed to each other. The ensuing events are vividly revealed in the letters. Section 19 introduces ACIA, the final “ETC.” of the book’s title. Turgenev poignantly portrays the twists and turns of human emotions in this moving psychological portrait of two people who fall in love. Leo Tolstoy believed Acia to be one of Turgenev's greatest stories. (Lee Smalley)
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Out of the Depths by Chaim Potok, at the Center for Jewish History
“She has beautiful eyes, this woman. And a beautiful face. And she is all day and all night in my thoughts. When I see the sun, I see her. When I see the moon, I see her, I hear her voice in the wind.”
So says Young Ansky in Chaim Potok’s original play, Out of the Depths. Based on the life of Solomon Rappaport (S. Ansky), the play begins in 1920 in a Warsaw rehearsal room where the Vilna Troupe are rehearsing Ansky’s The Dybbuk. Potok transports the audience to various times and locations in Ansky’s life, and against a backdrop of war and revolution, shows us how Ansky’s own life evolved into The Dybbuk. Directed by David Bassuk and introduced by Rena Potok, the performance celebrates the publication of The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok, edited by Rena Potok. A book signing follows the program.
Chaim Potok (1929-2002) is the author of nine novels, including The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev, Davita’s Harp, and I Am the Clay. He also wrote Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews as well as Young Adult fiction, children’s books, a collection of novellas, biographies, and numerous essays and short stories. An ordained rabbi, Potok served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Korea. The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok is the first volume of his plays to be published.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. Although averse to writing, his improvised lectures and talks were recorded and transcribed, with his spoken word being converted by his secretaries into his published essays and books.
Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909, he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of six, where he witnessed the revolutions of 1917. In 1921 his family moved to the UK, and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1932, at the age of 23, Berlin was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He translated works by Ivan Turgenev from Russian into English and, during the war, worked for the British Diplomatic Service. From 1957 to 1967 he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1963 to 1964. In 1966, he played a role in founding Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its first President. Berlin was appointed a CBE in 1946, knighted in 1957, and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1971. He was President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. He also received the 1979 Jerusalem Prize for his writings on individual freedom.
An annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture is held at the Hampstead Synagogue, at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the British Academy, and in Riga. Berlin's work on liberal theory and on value pluralism, as well as his opposition to Marxism and communism, has had a lasting influence. In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that:
Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential
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Josip Broz (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz]; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; Cyrillic: Тито, pronounced [tîto]), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and political leader, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian and concerns about the repression of political opponents have been raised, some historians consider him a benevolent dictator. He was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Viewed as a unifying symbol, his internal policies maintained the peaceful coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation. He gained further international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.Broz was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent Civil War. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
He was General Secretary (later Chairman of the Presidium) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–1980) and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans (1941–1945). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1944–1963), President (later President for Life) (1953–1980) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, he received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.
Tito was the chief architect of the second Yugoslavia, a socialist federation that lasted from November 1942 until April 1992. Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he became the first Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony in 1948 and the only one in Joseph Stalin's time to manage to leave Cominform and begin with its own socialist program with elements of market socialism. Economists active in the former Yugoslavia, including Czech-born Jaroslav Vanek and Croat-born Branko Horvat, promoted a model of market socialism dubbed the Illyrian model, where firms were socially owned by their employees and structured on workers' self-management and competed with each other in open and free markets.