Download or read book In a Russian Village Classic Reprint written by Charles Roden Buxton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In a Russian Village I iiave long wished to write down the many curious things which I heard and saw among the Russian villages. If, in addition to the pleasure this gives me, my recollections are found to have a political or historical value, so much the better. But I shall quote no general statistics, and pronounce no political judgements. I shall report nothing but. What I personally experienced, and what was said to me in conversation I may say little, but what I do say will be all first-hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Village written by Ernest Poole and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Village: Russian Impressions In my hotel room in Petrograd, Tarasov was doing his packing. I had already finished mine. It was a stifling afternoon in August, 1917, and we were trying to get off for a trip to a little Village deep in the heart of the country. But I had small hope of catching the train. My companion was a man about forty, huge of limb and nearly bald. His face was flushed and perspiring. A vast disorderly heap of belongings lay all around him on the floor, and he was mauling things about with a kind of desperate patience. To my imprecations he said not a word. I heard him panting softly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Village Priest written by Beatrix L. Tollemache and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Village Priest: And Other Stories From the Russian of Militsina Saltikov Of the two authors selected by Mrs. Tollemache for translation, Saltikov has attained to the rank of a classic, at least in his own country, while Elena Dmietrievna Militsina is a living writer who has obtained some popularity in Russia, but is practically unknown to English readers. She has written for the leading monthly the Russkoe Bogatsvo and other journals, sometimes under the pseudonym of E. Kargina. The first volume of her short stories was published in Petrograd in 1910. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Economics Vol 2 written by Isaac A. Hourwich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Economics, Vol. 2: Russian Village Certainly this juvenile movement must, under any circum stances, have inevitably proved a failure. Defeat was, how ever, accelerated by the merciless persecution of the Govern ment. The events which followed are only too well known for it to be necessary for me to dwell on them. The final de feat of revolutionary peasantism after 1881, brought into the foreground a peaceable peasantist movement that excited little attention, but which will certainly be'of great consequence for the coming development of Russia. Having suffered ship wreck in their revolutionary course, the peasantists came to the conclusion that scientific investigation of the economics of the village was the most essential preliminary for any rational political action. And scores of former revolutionists zealously took part in the statistical investigation started by the zemstvos (provincial assemblies). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Russian Grandmother s Classic Reprint written by Louise Seymour Houghton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Russian Grandmother's The stories which the Russian grandmother told will be found, with many others, in a German collection of "Tales and Legends of South Slavonia," put forth in Vienna some twenty years ago by Dr. Friedrich Kraus, an ardent student of folk-lore. I have sketched in a slight background of peasant village life as it still exists in some parts of Southern Russia, because this is the proper setting of these stories; and I have been careful to clothe them as nearly as I might in the simple language in which they are told to-day by many a village fireside in South Slavonia. I frankly confess to having received from Mr. Joel Chandler Harris the suggestion which I have thus carried out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Village Classic Reprint written by Iván Bunin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Village I was born in 1870, in the town of Voronezh, and passed my childhood and youth almost entirely in the country, on my father's estates. As a boy, I was deeply affected by the death of my little sister, and passed through a violent religious crisis, which left, however, no morbid traces whatsoever in my soul. I also had a passion for painting, which, I believe, has manifested itself in my literary works. I began to write both verse and prose rather early in my life. My first appearance in print was likewise at an early date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book In a Russian Village written by Charles Roden Buxton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In a Russian Village I have long wished to write down the many curious things which I heard and saw among the Russian villages. If, in addition to the pleasure this gives me, my recollections are found to have a political or historical value, so much the better. But I shall quote no general statistics, and pronounce no political judgements. I shall report nothing but what I personally experienced, and what was said to me in conversation; I may say little, but what I do say will be all first-hand. My chief hope for this book is that it may help to make others think of Russia, not as an abstraction, not as a unit, but as a very large number of very interesting human beings, most of them lovable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Out of the Shadow Classic Reprint written by Rose Cohen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Out of the Shadow I was born in a small Russian village. Our home was a log house, covered with a straw roof. The front part of the house overlooked a large clear lake, and the back, open fields. The first time I became aware of my existence was on a cold winter night. My father and I were sitting on top of our red brick oven. The wind, whistling through the chimney and rattling the ice-covered windows, frightened me, and so I pressed close to my father and held his hand tightly. He was looking across the room where mother's bed stood curtained off with white sheets. Every now and then I heard a moan coming from the bed, and each time I felt father's hand tremble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Origin of the English Nation Classic Reprint written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin of the English Nation 1587 - 1588. By Alhed II. 1110. By Anne Isabella Thackeray B11de of Landeck. Dr G. L'. R. James. L101'jacoh. - '1'l1e Lifted Veil. By Geo. 1111111 hadow on the Tlneehold. By Mmy Cecil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Echoes of a Native Land written by Serge Schmemann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history. First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the prerevolutionary life of the village of Sergiyevskoye (now called Koltsovo), where the spacious estate of his mother's family was the seat of a manor house as vast and imposing as a grand hotel. In this village, on this estate--ringed with orchards, traversed by endless paths through linden groves, overseen by a towering brick church, and bordered by a sparkling-clear river--we live through the cycle of a year: the springtime mud, summertime card parties, winter nights of music and good talk in a haven safe from the bitter cold and ever-present snow. Family recollections of life a century ago summon up an aura of devotion to tsar and church. The unjust, benevolent, complicated, and ultimately doomed relationship between master and peasants--leading to growing unrest, then to civil war--is subtly captured. Diary entries record the social breakdown step by step: grievances going unresolved, the government foundering, the status quo of rural life overcome by revolutionary fervor. Soon we see the estate brutally collectivized, the church torn apart brick by brick, the manor house burned to the ground. Some of the family are killed in the fighting; others escape into exile; one writes to his kin for the last time from the Gulag. The Soviet era is experienced as a time of privation, suffering, and lost illusions. The Nazi occupation inspires valorous resistance, but at great cost. Eventually all that remains of Sergiyevskoye is an impoverished collective. Without idealizing the tsarist past or wholly damning the regime that followed, Schmemann searches for a lost heritage as he shows how Communism thwarted aspiration and initiative. Above all, however, his book provides for us a deeply felt evocation of the long-ago life of a corner of Russia that is even now movingly beautiful despite the ravages of history and time.
Download or read book A Red Flower written by Vsevolod Garshin and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Download or read book On the Eve written by Constance Garnett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Eve: Translated From the Russian This exquisite novel, first published in 1859, like so many great works of art, holds depths of meaning which at first sight lie veiled under the simplicity and harmony of the technique. To the English reader On Me E w is a charm ingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian house hold, with a delicate analysis of a young girl's soul; but to Russians it is also a deep and penetrating diagnosis of the destinies of the Russia of the fifties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Stalin s Peasants written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village
Download or read book Tender Kiss of a Russian Werewolf written by Dragan Vujic and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American professor of folklore visits relatives in Russia. Initially, he comes to do research on aspects of Russian epics, which have been passed down orally and have literally survived on the lips of the peasants. However, the American soon abandons his primary purpose and decides to pursue loftier goals. He falls in love with a Russian lady. Their romance flourishes. Then, something unexpected occurs and the American discovers the true nature of his lover. Vasil Donskov experiences first hand the tender kiss of a Russian werewolf.
Download or read book In a Village by the Sea written by Muon Van and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Moving from the wide world to the snugness of home and back out again, Village by the Sea tells the story of longing for the comforts of home"--
Download or read book Russian Village Prose written by Kathleen F. Parthé and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's past and fears for the nation's future; they opposed collectivized agriculture, and fought to preserve traditional art and architecture and to protect the environment. Assessing the place of Village Prose in the newly revised canon of twentieth-century Russian literature, Parth maintains that these writers consciously ignored and undermined Socialist Realism, and created the most aesthetically coherent and ideologically important body of published writings to appear in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's ascendancy. In the 1970s, Village Prose was seen as moderately nationalist and conservative in spirit. After 1985, however, statements by several of its practitioners caused the movement to be reread as a possible stimulus for chauvinistic, anti-Semitic groups like Pamyat. This important development is treated here with a thorough discussion of all the political implications of these rural narratives. Nevertheless, the center of Parth's work remains her exploration of the parameters that constitute a "code of reading" for works of Village Prose. The appendixes contain a translation and analysis of a particularly fine example of Russian Village Prose--Aleksei Leonov's "Kondyr."
Download or read book The Life Story of a Russian Exile written by Marie Sukloff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life-Story of a Russian Exile: The Remarkable Experience of a Young Girl, Being an Account of Her Peasant Childhood, Her Girlhood in Prison, Her Exile to Siberia, and Escape From There Our hut stood at the very entrance to the village. It was old and rickety. The two little windows were low, near the ground. In the severe winter months the snow piled up high in front of them, shutting out the feeble light that penetrated the double windows. During the greater part of the year the broken panes were replaced with cardboard, as a protection against the clouds of dust which drifted into the house every time a vehicle passed. The thatch on the roof was black with age. It was broken in sev eral places. When the rains were heavy the water leaked through and formed a puddle on the mud floor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
