The Day of Automobile and Public Transport Workers
This holiday was instituted by presidential decree in June 2012 and it is absolutely justified, because automobile transport and public
transport play a tremendous role in Russia and especially Moscow
city. This is perhaps one of the main infrastructure sectors, ensuring
the smooth operation of everyday city life.
Birthdays
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (November
9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian
novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a
short-story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches(1852), was a
milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as
one of the major works of 19th-century fiction
Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov (9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1885
– 28 June 1922), was a poet and playwright,
a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work
and influence stretch far beyond it
Roza Ivanovna Makagonova (Russian:
Роза Ивановна Макагонова, October 28, 1927 – April 18,
1995) was a Soviet actress. Makagonova was awarded as a Meritorious Artist in 1976
Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature. The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James.
ReplyDeleteIn November 1852 Turgenev wrote a laudatory article on the recently dead author Nikolai Gogol.This article was not passed by the St. Petersburg censors; Turgenev then took it to Moscow, where it was published. Its publication was regarded as a "treasonable act"; he was arrested, and after a month in prison, he was put under house arrest at Spasskoye for almost 2 years. During his month in prison Turgenev wrote "Mumu, " a piece called by Thomas Carlyle "the most pathetic story in the world."
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