Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecturer then gave an intellectual picture of the period known in Russia as "the forties." The hearth of the philosophical and literary activity of the time was the University of Moscow. In some humorous quotations from a contemporary the lecturer showed the sort of philosophical intoxication in which the younger generation of the time lived. A prominent part in this movement which prepared the literary soil from which the great Russian novelists were to arise belongs to the critic Belinsky...
...Lermontov, romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popularpoetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The Forties." The Moscow University. Slavophiles and "Westernists...
...Lermontov, romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The Forties." The Moscow University. Slavophiles and "Westernists...
...part in advancing Russian literature. The first real litterateur was Prince Cantamile. He wrote the first Russian verses-mainly satires directed against those who opposed the reforms of Peter the Great. The next great writer was Lomonossov. Abandoning the life of a fisherman he fled to Moscow, and later to St. Petersburg, where he obtained his education. He marks the real beginning of Russian poetry. He was in literary life what Peter the Great was in practical life. He expelled the hybrid German words and establised rules of versification. The two other important writers of the period were Soumarakov...
Lecture III (1837-1861). Lermontov,- romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The forties." The Moscow university. Slavphiles and "Westernists...