Pushkin Threefold is so named because each of the poems featured is presented three times: in metric translation, literal translation, and in Russian. It's a wonderful work because, barring actual fluency in Russian, comparing multiple translations is the closest English-speakers can get to the meaning of the original poems. It loses a star only because some of the poems have been better translated elsewhere. However, it maintains four stars because I've never found any single book which contained _all_ the best translations.

A man lossing his love to the waters of the Neva one dark night curses the bronze statue of peter the great - founder of Sct. Petersburg - because he holds him responsible for building a city on the banks of an uncontrolable river. The horseman statue comes to life an chases the man through the city streets.

This long epic poem is not only a classic in russian poetry but also a key to understanding Pushkin's special relationship with the Tzar - it is a study in conflict on many levels.

Solshenitzyn's "Rebuilding Russia" is a look past tradition and modern paganist values into the "how-to" of starting a nation/civilization from scratch. His analysis of the paralysis that afflicts modern Russian in every area is brilliant and his solutions apply not to just Russia but any nation that is experiencing broad social decline, which would include nearly every nation in the West. He starts with the correct premise that government is incapable of building any enduring civilization and, therefore, social structure always precedes political structure with the former a more fundamental entity. He also points out that any who cave-in to fleshly appetites will never rise from being mere beasts. Those who do this choose anarchy instead of order and peace. However, it has generally brought a mere "ho-hum" from the great in US society because Solshenitzyn starts from Judeo/Christian theism - an abomination to most here. He correctly sees that the battle for civilization has been lost in the United States because our nation has plunged into the tide of neo-paganism and has abandoned the foundations for a just and peaceful society. It is insufficient to save the environment, for example, if basic social order is collapsing, and in the end such a cause will merely be a stepping stone to tyranny. An excellent book that should be a best seller but most don't want to hear what Solshenitzyn has to say.

Once I started to read this journal ý immensed my self in those pages that revealed the authors human needs,having a loving wife, happy kids,very ýntriguing environment, betrayels, mercyness, suspicion and finally reaching the end of his limit to the mortalýty by a duel with his brother-in-law. one might say that was that worthed to be killed like that after having captured the whole nations heart by being one of the most admired native son in russian literature!

As the author stated in his journal" it is better to die with honour then to live as a dishonoured man" where the tsar was overwatching writers wife all over the places and sometimes calling her in for having to be near to her and to touch her! on the other hand, the writer's brother in-law d'anthes had an eye for pushkins wife natalia pushkina and having to spread rumors all over that he had an affair with authors wife!

whatever may pushkin have done within his troubled marriage, human honour would always judge ýtself whether the unfaithfullness and mistrust one another in a marriage belongs only to the committed ones or not!

Though Svechin's work and examples are dated to post WWI, the concepts are timeless. Insightful observations carrying Clausewitz-style strategic thought into the modern, industrial age. The contextual examples from WWI Eastern Front and the Russian Revolution will likely be lost on anyone not familiar with these campaigns. However, the concepts and commentary interspersed are excellent. Those familiar with the specific military history mentioned above will be doubly-rewarded by such cogent and brilliant analysis of only partially-understood campaigns (to most Western military historians). Svechin's considerations for a revolution in military affairs are certainly practical today. A quote "[A military leader] must put together a perspective in which he will evaluate the phenomena of war. [He] needs a working hypothesis. Of course, not every military leader will take the trouble or have the opportunity to think about the nature of a future war. Strategic mediocrity perhaps prefers to proceed from stereotypes and recipes. Reality will be a cruel disappointment for such a poor excuse for a leader; the theory of strategic art cannot have him in mind." Svechin's work should be a classic of the military art. A must-read for anyone who fancies himself a military, political or diplomatic strategist. If you're concerned about the nature, motives and programs of national defense, then you must read this book.

For those of us who can't read Pushkin in Russian, his prose might be more rewarding than his poetry, where the essence is so difficult to translate. However, Pushkin's "Tales of Belkin" read like the whipped up improvisations of a virtuoso, rather than the carefully crafted Onegin or Godunov. By the end of his Tales, he so tires of his own device that he implores, "Readers will spare me the unnecessary duty of describing the denouement."

That being said, the Belkin stories are delightful. Each story revolves around a mistaken or hidden identity. The narratives are so swiftly paced that they could be considered page-turners if there were more pages to turn.

The book is laid out starting with an overall summary of Luria's theory before analyzing specific components such as verbal regulation, memory, consciousness, and cognitive development. This book did a nice job of bringing several decades of Luria's work together along with that of his colleages into a condensed yet thorough summary and analysis of his life's work. It has a complete glossary of terms for easy reference and a extensive bibliography that allows for further reading on particular areas of interest. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Soviet Psychology.

These two great stories are written in that harsh realistic style so charateristic of Solzhenitsyn's works. Both stories are important on two fronts: They are both allow for primary-source insight into what many Westerners have a skewed perception of (the poverty and oppression in Stalanist Russia), and secondly, both stories present severe criticsm of human nature in such grand metaphoric form as to allow them to penetrate the reader's own soul. The phrase "thought provoking," does these stories no justice, the parables are better described as painfully applicable.

This book by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin I've read for the first time probably in 1956, in Russian. I remember the contents because later on I've been reading it to my children in Polish. The original version did impress me much more than the translation. Right now I'm living in Canada and have just a few books in Russian. I'm not a wealthy person, but very sentimental. The reason I'm writing this "review" is in fact an attempt to find out about the unexpensive way to get a few more books in Russian, not necessarily by A.S. Pushkin.

This wonderful book contains four stories by Russia's great Aleksandr Pushkin, brilliantly illustrated by Boris Zvorykin. Originally published as a limited edition in France, in 1925, it has been translated from the French by Jessie Wood, with good reproductions of the brightly colored illustrations, which resemble illuminated manuscripts, and have much intricate detail.
It also includes a lengthy introduction by the noted dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who gives an overview of Pushkin's life, and his influence on the ballet, with many stories that became the basis for works performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (like "The Golden Cockerel", or as it is better known, "Le Coq d'Or"), and of course opera, with the likes of Eugene Onegin, and Boris Godunov.

The first story is "The Golden Cockerel", about a magical creature who is given to the Tsar for protection, but has dire consequences; # 2 is "The Tale of the Tsar Sultan", and is the longest of the stories, about a simple peasant girl who marries the Tsar, her jealous relatives, and her hero son, who saves the life of a swan that later turns into a princess. # 3 is "The Dead Princess and the Seven Heros", which one will recognize as a version of "Snow White", and # 4 is "The Tale of the Golden Fish", about a man with an avaricious wife, and the fish that grants him many favors.
These stories all have a moral to them, and the evil ones get their dues; it is also written in a style that would take some maturity, so this would be recommended for a child old enough to appreciate Pushkin's language, and the complexity of Zvorykin's art.

This collection of Russian Fairy Tales is not for bed-time stories. The tales contained within this book are wonderfully true to the stories passed down from the old world. The violent images within most of the tales hold true to those found in the original tales. Refreshing and invigorating, there's very little "once upon a time" in Russia, and the illustrations and characters make this book a must-have conversation piece.

This book is so confusing, everyone in class think it's stupid. Bottom line: He attemps to classify tales when it is an impossible task to do, and criticizes others for trying to do what he can't even do himself.

This is the first work to systematically characterize and describe a corpus of folktales. It includes a list of possible plot twists, in their correct chronological order for any story, and numerous examples from actual Russian fairy tales. This translation in particular reads well and makes a point of not departing from the text's literal meaning in any significant way. I would highly recommend this work for anyone interested in folktales or oral literature in general.

This seminal work is essential for an understanding of structuralist theory and the theory of folklore. It differs from the psychological view of the folktale in its descriptive ability. This theory is based on objective description and sytagmatic conjunction and complementation. Because of that, it is more applicable and flexible than any psychological dissection. Also, two people will reach roughly the same conclusions with this method- something impossible with a psychological approach. This is excellent for anyone interested in attacking the down and dirty working parts of a narrative.