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| Author | 1799 ~ 1837 | 1809 ~ 1852 | 1828 ~ 1910 | 1880 ~ 1921 |
| Historical Context | Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812 by Beryl Williams |
Gogol:Historical Sketch by Professor Robin Milner-Gulland |
Serfdom in Early C19th Russia by Beryl Williams |
Harlequinade and Symbolist
Art by Olga Soboleva |
| Literary Criticism | Metel' ~ 'The
Snowstorm' by Sally Dalton-Brown |
Maiskaia Noch' ~ 'May Night' by V.V.Kallash (trans. A.Soboleva) |
Svechka ~ 'The
Candle' by Professor Robin Milner-Gulland |
Dvoinik ~ 'The Double' by Olga Soboleva |
| The Text | Метель | Майская ночь, или утопленица | Свечка | Двойник (poem) |
| Exercises | Text comprehension Vocabulary matching Grammar tests |
Text comprehension Vocabulary matching Grammar tests |
Text comprehension Vocabulary matching Grammar tests |
Text comprehension Vocabulary matching Grammar tests |
| Grammar | Gerunds and participles | The Imperative of Verbs | Verbs of motion | Prepositions |
| Audio | Метель with stress
marks read by Natalia Tronenko |
Майская ночь with stress marks, read by Leonid Parnovski | Свечка with stress
marks read by Natalia Tronenko |
Двойник with stress marks read by Olga Soboleva |
| Video | 1. Interview with Sasha about Pushkin 2. Katya and Viktor discuss Pushkin's Metel' |
1. Ira, a Ukrainian, talks
about her favourite Gogol passage 2. Sasha and Ira discuss Gogol's Vechera na Khutore bliz Dikan'ki |
1. Tonia talks about Russian Orthodoxy,
and recites Winter Night, the famous 'candle poem' from Dr Zhivago by
Boris Pasternak. 2. Katya and Andrei discuss the Channel 4 TV adaptation of Anna Karenina by Tolstoy |
1. Alex talks about puppetry
and travelling theatres, and recites Blok's The Travelling Theatre 2. Dr Aleksandr Sobolev discusses Blok's poetry with Katya. |