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Lib.ru: Classic Russian Literature
Great resource for finding online text for classic Russian literature in Russian. Features the most popular writers and their works. Valuable resource for students studying Russian. Russian-speaking ELL students might translate passages...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Russian Literature
Wikipedia offers information on Russian literature, old and new. Includes many hyperlinked terms.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
Read about the 1970 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was honored "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature."
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Kostyor (Campfire): Russian Magazine for Children
An online version of a well-established Russian children's magazine "Kostyor." Contents include current events for kids, children's literature, jokes, games, Russian history, biographical information on Russian writers, as well as...
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Lib. Ru: Online Literature for Children
Russian-speaking students can access a plethora of Russian folk and modern tales as well as Russian translations of world tales from one site. ESL teachers might ask their native Russian speakers to translate some complete tales or...
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Classicism and Sentimentalism in Russian Literature
College class notes on Russian classicism and sentimentalism.
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Lib.ru: Russian Prose and Science Fiction in English Translation
Collection of Russian prose and science fiction in English. Website features online texts of works by popular Russian authors and could be used by older students as a resource for studying English or Russian literature. Some broken links.
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Read about the 1958 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960 CE), a writer who was honored for "his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian...
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School World: Russian Educational Resources
Russian content. A collection of links to Russian educational sites that cover school subjects, exam preparation, colleges in Russia and abroad, encyclopedias, parent resources, and more. A teacher page is devoted to lesson plans and...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Tango With Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant Garde
Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.
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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Sasha the Serf and Other Stories of Russian Life by Blackie
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sasha the Serf and Other Stories of Russian Life by Blackie & Son (1887), a collection of children's stories about Russian life.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Through Russian Snows
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Through Russian Snows by George Alfred Henty, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox (1886). It is an illustrated novel relating the adventures of two youths in a journey in European and...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: The Keeping Quilt
A review of "The Keeping Quilt" by Patricia Polacco, a story about a Russian immigrant mother and family as well as other resources for teaching young readers.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Comp: Animal Farm by George Orwell
This is an introduction to a unit on the political allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell, in which he uses animals to symbolize political leaders in the Russian Revolution.
New York University
New York University: Literature Annotations: The Idiot
Sponsored by a multi-disciplinary Medical Humanities program at The University of New York School of Medicine, this brief summary/commentary focuses on the medical aspects of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
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Lib.ru: Russian & World Poetry in Russian
Large online collection of Russian and world poetry, in Russian. Includes classics by English language poets like Dante, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Frost, Eliot, Ginsburg and a few by Russian-American poets. Helpful support for the upper...
Middlebury College
The Definitive Study Guide for the Brothers Karamazov
Middlebury College provides this site authored by a professor of Russian language and literature that provides summaries and analyses for all sections of The Brothers Karamazov, a biography of Dostoevsky, character analyses, and a...
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Dostoevsky and the Devils
Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...
Middlebury College
Crime and Punishment Summary and Study Guide
Prepared by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site offers a very useful study guide for the student of Crime and Punishment, including chapter-by-chapter summaries, identifications of the book's...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the complete text of the Russian novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
This is the complete text of the Russian novel The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy.