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A book cover of Ivan Goncharov's 'Oblomov' Alma Classics, 2021 Soviet critics perceived the novel as a sign that the Russian nobility was on the verge of death, and that their way of life...
The film begins in 19th century Saint Petersburg, and examines the life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a middle-aged Russian nobleman. Slothful and seemingly unhappy, Oblomov spends much of the beginning of the film sleeping and being attended to by his servant, Zakhar.
Oblomov was adapted to the cinema screen in the Soviet Union by Nikita Mikhalkov in 1980, as A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov. This film was later named Best Foreign Language Film for 1981 by the U.S. National Board of Review. [15] In 1989 BBC TV made an English language dramatisation of the novel, with George Wendt in the title role ...
- Ivan Goncharov
- 1859
- Alexander Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”
- Alexander Pushkin “The Captain's Daughter”
- Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace”
- Nikolay Gogol “The Overcoat”
- Ivan Goncharov “Oblomov”
- Ivan Turgenev “The Noble Nest”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky “Demons”
- Anton Chekhov “The Cherry Orchard”
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky “Antichrist. Peter and Alex”
- Alexey Tolstoy “Peter The Great”
This novel in verse used to be called by Russian literary experts as the “encyclopedia of Russian life”. Indeed, one can find here descriptions of provincial landowners’ lives, as well as royal receptions and balls, theater nights in the capital and the delicate process of matchmaking. Pushkin also lovingly initiates a reader into the secret dreams...
The story describes the historical period of the peasant uprising led by Yemelyan Pugachev, who considered himself to be a tsar. According to the plot, a young nobleman leaves his home to serve in a remote fortress along with the old servant who brought him up. First, the young rake loses a large amount of money in a card game, then he gave away hi...
It is difficult to find a book that tells about Russian life more comprehensively. Here you can find descriptions of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as countryside life. Landowners, high society, peasants and the military - the writer seemed to have become accustomed to all of his characters and speaks on behalf of each of them. Tolstoy describe...
In his typical phantasmagoric manner, Gogol describes the life of a most ordinary person - a minor official, Akaki Bashmachkin, who lives in St. Petersburg. It is not hard to imagine how small is his salary since he has been wearing the same overcoat for many years. One day, the tailor says it’s no longer possible to mend it for the upcoming winter...
What if you could just lie on the sofa all day long and have no need to work! Everyone has probably dreamt about this. But how can a healthy adult man afford not to work? Well, actually he can. There were lots of such people in the Russian Empire. If you had an inheritance then you could live for yourself, organize balls and read books all day and ...
The novel’s title is now an aphorism: “the noble's nest” is an estate where a large noble family lived and which has been inherited. Moreover, it is a place of familial kinship, where children who flew out of the “nest” can always return. In such noble houses there was always a certain traditional way of life and prescribed activities. Turgenev sad...
The deeply faithful Dostoevsky is interested in a new generation - the young people who grew up after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. They are revolutionaries who defy social standards. In this novel their harmful ideas are like demons that fly around and poison the minds and lives of ordinary people. Nikolai Stavrogin, one of the main characters...
In “The Three Sisters” Chekhov depicts how the nobles are losing their estates and position in society, becoming impoverished. The “Cherry Orchard” shows a palette of nobles, both those who follow old-fashioned views and traditions, and the new ones: whether emigrant loafers or pioneering entrepreneurs. From the early 20th century onward, people fr...
“Peter and Alexei” is the last part of the mystical trilogy, “Christ and the Anti-christ”, written by philosopher Merezhkovsky. Peter the Great decided to reform the church in Russia and bring it under state-control. Pious Russians are shocked by how the new tsar acts in violation of centuries-old traditions. Both Peter's closest circles and the co...
Another novel about Peter the Great tells of his early years in power. Tolstoy masterfully portrays people close to the tsar, embroiled in intrigues and telling lies for the sake of the throne. On one side is Peter’s treacherous sister, who in fact rules the country, and on the other side is Peter’s entourage who ignore his orders. Peter seeks to s...
Oct 1, 2006 · Oblomov has lost the love of his life, Olga, to his best friend, the industrious half-German Stoltz. Rapscallions have taken advantage of his good nature and robbed him of his last kopeck. He...
Jun 15, 2024 · Jun 15 2024. St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds...
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Oblomov, first published in 1859, is the charming tale of a lazy but lovable aristocrat in 19th-century Russia. The novel’s eponymous hero cannot see the point of doing anything at all, and spends his time lying in bed or wandering around his St Petersburg flat in his beloved oriental dressing gown, bickering about the dusting with his ...
