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Vom Leben und den Spielsälen der Petersburger Gesellschaft fasziniert, gerät ein Offizier in den Bannkreis einer Geschichte um das Geheimnis von drei gewinnbringenden Karten. Von skrupelloser Gier nach Macht und Reichtum besessen, gelingt es ihm, das Kartengeheimnis mit List und Gewalt an sich zu reißen, um schließlich selbst das Opfer seiner maßlosen, alles auf eine Karte setzenden Spielleidenschaft zu werden.

Von diesem herausragenden Wegbereiter und Klassiker der russischen Literatur hören Sie aus dem Zyklus "Die Erzählungen der Belkins" die ausgewählten Novellen: "Der Posthalter", "Der Schuss", "Das Fräulein als Bäuerin" und "Der Schneesturm".

Fjodor Dostojevski was een Russische schrijver. Beschouwd als een van de grootste Russische schrijvers, beïnvloedde hij veel schrijvers en filosofen. Werd luitenant, nam hij ontslag uit het leger in 1859 en volledig ingrijpt schrijven. Bewonderde schrijver na de publicatie van "Misdaad en Straf" (1866) en "The Idiot" (1869), de auteur publiceert dan de twee meest succesvolle werken: "The Demons" (1871) en "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880).

Anton Tsjechov of Tsjechov was een Russische schrijver. Tijdens het oefenen als arts, publiceerde hij meer dan 600 literaire werken; sommige stukken vaak opgevoerd op dit moment - "De Meeuw', "The Cherry Orchard", "Oom Wanja" - maken hem tot een van de bekendste schrijvers van de Russische literatuur, met name voor zijn manier van beschrijven van het leven in de Russische provincie de late negentiende eeuw.

Fiodor Dostoïevski est un écrivain russe. Considéré comme l'un des plus grands romanciers russes, il a influencé de nombreux écrivains et philosophes. Devenu sous-lieutenant, il démissionne de l'armée en 1859 et s'engage complètement dans l'écriture. Écrivain admiré après la publication de "Crime et Châtiment" (1866) et de "L'Idiot" (1869).

Queste 100 citazioni mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda.

Un homme perdu, alcoolique et seul, vit dans un sous-sol, dans laquelle il a une chambre minable. Cet homme n'a plus de projets, plus d'envies. Il hait le jour qui se lève et voudrait dormir, toujours. Mais c'est sans compter l'arrivée dans sa vie d'une jeune femme, et surtout de son bébé.

Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking, sibling rivalry, and even tennis, Zabuzhko - manages to shock the listener by juxtaposing things as they are.

Благодаря Чехову в русской литературе появилось понятие 'маленького человека'. Писатель дает такую характеристику и мелким чиновникам, и мещанам, и крестьянам. Классический тип 'маленького человека' представлен в рассказе 'Злоумышленник' Чехова.

Женщина ждет вольнолюбивого охотника уже 12 лет, а тот, женившись в пьяном виде, не торопится к ней в дом. Он егерь, лучший стрелок, а она скотница, по мнению мужчины, не могут быть парой. Актуальный рассказ Чехова заставляет задуматься. Сколько женщин страдает в ожидании любимого, который не может нагуляться, насытиться мнимой свободой от семейных обязанностей.

Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road, accidentally meets his estranged wife, Pelageya, whom he's been married to for 12 years but visited just several times, and even then, drunk and violent. She weeps and, fawning before him, implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why he, the best sportsman around, 'a pampered man', enjoying good tea and 'refined conversation', could not bear to live in a village.

Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction. 

The terrifying, lengthening list of Russia’s use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev’s latest novel. With uncanny timing, he examines how and why Russia and the Soviet Union have developed horrendous neurotoxins. At its center is a ruthless chemist named Professor Kalitin, obsessed with developing an absolutely deadly, undetectable, and untraceable poison for which there is no antidote. But Kalitin becomes consumed by guilt over countless deaths from his Faustian pact to create the ultimate venom.

The story is an absurd, comic, surreal, and sometimes grotesque send up of Major Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning to find his nose missing. The story has three parts. In part one, Kovalyov's barber finds his client's nose in his breakfast and is nabbed by the police when he tries to throw it off a bridge. In part two, Kovalyov awakes to find his nose gone.

Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature, and we return to her and the novel she propels again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and Professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways.

"Hadjí Murat" es una novela histórica escrita de primera mano, ya que Tolstói conoció a algunos de sus protagonistas durante su permanencia en el Cáucaso. La acción transcurre en torno a 1850, bajo el reinado del zar Nicolás I, que se caracterizó por llevar a cabo una política expansionista y de absolutismo represivo. De hecho, el retrato que del zar se hace en la obra nos le describe como un hombre arbitrario, poco justo y demasiado orgulloso.

The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined - as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest here, but his best work flowed from his response to this exotic land.

Yuri Bezmenov (1939-January 5, 1993) was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1971. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India. At the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies and he decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov is best remembered for his anti-communist lectures and books published in the 1980s under the alias of Tomas David Schuman.

The dreary aspects of Soviet housing and one family’s attempt to “exchange” its tiny Moscow apartment for a larger one. Adapted from a novella by the respected Russian writer Yuri Trifanov, as translated by playwright Michael Frayn. Translated and adapted by Michael Frayn. Directed by Robert Robinson. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in April, 1992.

"Фронтовая любовь — любовь обреченная. Она никогда и ни во что не развивается. Но само чувство в момент наивысшего развития столь остро и пряно, что многие, его испытавшие, подсаживаются на фронтовую любовь как на наркотик. Порой это становится одной из причин, по которым человек снова возвращается к работе в горячих точках. В тайной надежде еще раз встретить Её. И даже не знаешь — жалеть ли несчастных за то, что фронтовая любовь чуть не сожгла их. Или, наоборот, завидовать. За их недолгие дни настоящего, невероятного счастья". Андрей Константинов