In The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin, Todd examines the tradition of familiar letter writing that developed in the early 1800s among the Arzamasians - a literary circle tha
The early decades of the nineteenth century in Imperial Russia embraced a sequence of catastrophic events--the assassination of Paul I, Napoleon's invasion, the Decembrist rebellion, the cholera epide
Inspired by an image of Christ?s suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray ?a truly beautiful soul? colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a
