The Golden Age of Russian Literature

The main topic of the course is the history of The Russian Literature of the first half of the 19th century. The lectures will cover the poetry of V. A. Zhukovsky and K. N. Batyushkov, works of A. S. Griboyedov, A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov, N. V. Gogol, etc.

The main goals of the course are to demonstrate the main patterns which had determined the development of the Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century: the destruction and transformation of the existing literary forms, the change of the literary movements, the formation of the new ideas about the basis of the literature, the invention of the Russian classical novel. Why do we need to care about Russian classical literature nowadays? Using Pushkin’s words “person’s independence” is not possible without any knowledge about their culture, one of the bases of which is the literature of the Golden Age. Today this knowledge is the most accurate.