Developing Russian Language Collections at Public Libraries Katrina Belogorsky, Skokie Public Library
Principles of Teaching Literature in USSR/Russia · Standard core collection of knowledge in different subjects · In the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet people were about 99.7% literate Wikipedia entry on Education in the Soviet Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Soviet_Union
The 18th Century Russian Literature Literature in the 18th century in Russia wasn’t aimed on entertaining but on educating and improving society. However, it is very interesting to read these simple stories, plays and poems. The authors felt the responsibility and believed they could change the world, so they had no time to show off but just were trying in their simple and honest way to show what is right and what is wrong. · Denis Fonvizin – writer · Nikolay Karamzin – writer · Ival Krylov – writer · Michail Lomonosov – scientist/writer The 19th Century Russian Literature The 19th century was the Golden Age for the national literature. Russian literature obtained its tradition, history and distinct language. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov... "The century of classics" – that’s how we call the period of these core writers... · Ivan Goncharov · Alexander Griboedov · Ivan Turgenev · Nikolai Gogol · Alexander Pushkin · Michail Lermontov · Anton Chekhov · Lev Tolstoy · Fedor Dostoevsky The 20th Century Russian Literature The 20th century was a dynamic and turbulent time in Russia. There were Russian-Japanese war, three revolutions, the World War 1, the war with Finland, the World War 2, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR and the Chechen war in the end of the century. · Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky · Timur Kibirov · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Viktor Shklovsky · Sergei Dovlatov · Sergei Yesenin · Boris Pasternak · Vladimir Sorokin · Maxim Gorky · Tatiana Tolstaya · Anna Akhmatova · Michail Bulgakov · Vladimir Nabokov
Russian Nobel Prize Laureates 1. Ivan Bunin 1933 2. Boris Pasternak 1958 3. Michail Sholokhov 1965 4. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1970 5. Joseph Brodsky 1987
Russian Booker Prize Winners 1992 Mark Kharitonov Lines of Fate 1993 Vladimir Makanin Baize-covered Table with Decanter 1994 Bulat Okudzhava The show is over 1995 Georgi Vladimov The General and His Army 1996 Andrey Sergeev The Stamp Album 1997 Anatoly Azolsky Cell 1998 Aleksandr Morozov Strange Letters 1999 Michail Butov Freedom 2000 Michail Shishkin The Capture of Izmail 2001 Lyudmila Ulitskaya The Kukotsky Case 2002 Oleg Pavlov Ninth Day Party in Karaganda 2003 Ruben Gallego Black on White 2004 Vasily Aksyonov Voltairiens and Voltairiennes 2005 Denis Gutsko Without a Way 2006 Olga Slavnikova 2017 2007 Aleksandr Ilichevsky Matisse 2008 Mikhail Yelizarov Librarian 2009 Yelena Chizhova A Time of Women 2010 Elena Kolyadina The Flower Cross 2011 Alexander Chudakov Haze Set Upon The Old Steps
Top 20+ Modern Female Russian Writers Akunin,Boris Bykov, Dmitri Efimov, Igor Elizarov,Mikhail Gelasimov, Andrei Genis, Alexander Gigolashvili, Mikhail Grishkovets, Evgenii Grenshtien, Griderikh Grishkovets, Evgenii Gorenshtein, Friderigh Ivanov, Alexei Kivinov, Andrei Lipskerov, Dimitri Lukyanenko, Sergey Makanin, Vladimir Popov, Valerii Roi, Oleg Rubinov, Andrey Sorokin, Vladimir Terekhov, Alexander Shishkin, Mikhail
Audio-Visual Resources List of Russian Films http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_films (really good collection organized by year) “Kinotavr” is the largest national film festival. Every year in June, on the Black sea coast in Sochi, the top talents of Russian cinema come together: directors, producers, actors, script writers, directors of photography. http://kinotavr.ru/en/
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Libraries with big Russian language collections Queens Library http://www.queenslibrary.org/ New York Public Library http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/search Skokie Public Library (easy to navigate)