Buy the transcript as an e-book here: ko-fi.com/s/bba11284f0 Was Gogol Russian or Ukrainian? kzread.info/dash/bejne/k4N6t7Ofk5Pcm5s.htmlsi=vykd_cutVsg8WFpn

@ReligionOfSacrifice

7 ай бұрын

“Oh, they have robbed me of the hope, my spirit held so dear; they will not let me hear the voice, my soul delights to hear. They will not let me see the face, I so delight to see; and they have taken all thy smiles, and all thy love from me. Well, let them seize on all they can: one treasure still is mine, a heart that loves to think on thee, and feels the worth of thine.” - by Ann Brontë Ann Brontë was the most surprising find for the year introducing me to her poetry in “Agnes Grey” by having her main character write the poem above, while Ann Brontë is the actual author of it. I searched and searched and finding two more poems I was determined to read all of her poems as any one of those three poems was more beautiful and important to me than all the poems of both her sisters. I would rather all the works of poems of her sisters disappear from the Earth than even one poem of Ann’s be lost. I can say this now that I have read all her poems. Well worth it. A better poet than LRJ who I have quoted in my Facebook feed before and was a personal friend in college. Sorry Lynette, Ann Brontë is the better poet. “They say such tears as children weep, will soon be dried away, that childish grief however strong is only for a day, and parted friends how dear soe’er will soon forgotten be; it may be so with other hearts, it is not thus with me.” - “an orphan’s lament” by Ann Brontë “A dreadful darkness closes in, on my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, be tortured yet resigned. Through all this world of whelming mist, still let me look to thee, and give me courage to resist, the tempter till he flee. Weary I am - O give me strength, and leave me not to faint; say thou wilt comfort me at length, and pity my complaint.” - “Last Lines” by Ann Brontë “Mexico” was a good book. It made it on to my top 200 favorite books list, but it did not help Michener gain ground against other great authors. Leo Tolstoy meanwhile with his first two books he ever wrote went up two spots to be my favorite author of all time. In September, I read some good books: “Bottle of Lies” Katherine Eban; “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Leo Tolstoy “Childhood, Boyhood, Youth” by Leo Tolstoy (three books in a series) but I only add the first two on my favorite books list in one place as they were ranked high and are a series, but I don’t honor the third as at that level; “Mexico” by James A. Michener; "The Vanished Bride" by Bella Ellis (a Brontë Sisters Mystery); “Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, “Summer's End” by Danielle Steel, and “The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte” by Anne Brontë. Next month I plan to read “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky as I wish to give Dostoevsky the chance to pass up Solzhenitsyn. Ivan Turgenev stated, after reading the first two books of Leo Tolstoy (“Childhood” and “Boyhood”) as that was all he had written at the time, “one day all authors will sit under the shade of Leo Tolstoy.” I must thank Ivan Turgenev for insisting Leo Tolstoy write again on his death bed as that made Leo Tolstoy write my favorite story of all time (“Resurrection”) which in reality of history made Ivan Turgenev no longer my favorite author, though that book I did not read this year, but last year. FAVORITE AUTHORS 1st) Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection) 2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy 8) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy 15) “Childhood, Boyhood” by Leo Tolstoy 59) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy 86) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy 2nd) Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons) seven more books in the top 200 not shown here 4) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev 10) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev 21) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev 38) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 61) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev 3rd) James A. Michener (Chesapeake) 11) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener 12) "Poland" by James A. Michener 33) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener 34) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener 190) “Mexico” by James A. Michener 4th) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich) 9) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 26) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 41) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 74) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 5th) Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot) 3) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 18) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 110) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 137) "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 145) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky Here are future desired reads: “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Covenant” by James A. Michener “Recessional” by James A. Michener “Kent State: What Happened and Why” by James A. Michener “Centennial” by James A. Michener “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol The 2nd in the series of the Brontë Sisters Mystery called "The Diabolical Bones" by Bella Ellis (I'm really enjoying the three sisters alive, with their brother)

@VickiNikolaidis

7 ай бұрын

I 💖 that you make available your work as books.

@mountainjay

5 ай бұрын

Can someone please tell me if Mat is an atheist, theist or agnostic?

@ReligionOfSacrifice

5 ай бұрын

@@mountainjay how fast my FAVORITE AUTHORS can change when you keep reading. 1st) Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Insulted and Humiliated) 1) “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 19) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 64) "My Uncle's Dream" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 79) "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 112) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 129) "The Gentle Spirit" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 140) "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 148) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 171) "Netochka Nezvanova" (nameless nobody) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2nd) Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection) 3) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy 9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy 16) “Childhood, Boyhood” by Leo Tolstoy 60) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy 89) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy 3rd) Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons) 5) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev 11) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev 22) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev 39) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 62) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev 99) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev 105) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev 130) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev 139) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev 150) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev 170) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev 175) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev 4th) James A. Michener (Chesapeake) 12) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener 13) "Poland" by James A. Michener 34) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener 35) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener 196) “Mexico” by James A. Michener 5th) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich) 10) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 27) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 42) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 76) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I am reading "The Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky right now. About halfway through it and it is amazing. He is writing of the revolutionary communists their desire to make the nation state their God and to remove all churches from Russia. He is writing this before Stalin is even born and Lenin is a mere baby. The question Dostoevsky is asking is this: is what is going on inside them? They don't seem crazy or mentally deficient so it must be the title of the book. It's a premise the Jews did not want given as an excuse to the Nazi party in Germany and yet for Stalin and Hitler certainly the nation state or themselves ought to be the God and the church must decrease.

@mountainjay

5 ай бұрын

@@ReligionOfSacrifice is mat an atheist or theist though? Please ley let me know

As a Russian I feel very lucky that I can experience our classical literature the way it was written. Without translation. Its a blessing.

@EinZweiDreiVier

4 ай бұрын

Ты прав, на другом языке , русс литература будет казаться упрощенной

@valkyrie9553

4 ай бұрын

@@EinZweiDreiVierЕдинственный плюс - В Войне и Мире в переводе отсутствует французский диалог и все уже сразу переведено на английский 😂

@mirelairinapetre6503

4 ай бұрын

Yes,you were very lucky,on this matter! Still,I ve read all Russian literature,starting at 13 y.o,with Dostoievski.I wish I would have been able to know all the languages of the world,just to read all the masterpiecies of the entire human literature,in original.

@lawabidingcitizen223

4 ай бұрын

​@@valkyrie9553в Войне и Мире нет плюсов. Хочется оттаскать Толстого за оттопыренные уши - большей мути было трудно придумать, романтизировал и отбелил российскую элиту которая представляла собой лизоблюбов, мошенников и откровенных садистов-pабовладельцев, по своему интеллектуальному развитию не отличающихся от сегодняшних Боней, Гогенов, Рудковких...😂

@mordegardglezgorv2216

4 ай бұрын

Есть большое сомнение, что чел с аниме-аватаркой часто пользуется этим даром

Can't believe Pushkin had Cameroonian ancestry. I am Cameroonian, you can understand l am quite proud and honoured, mostly honoured.

@jettrd_utilitychnl4230

2 ай бұрын

oh, you should find out the life story of his great grand fither - Hannibal. Facsinating

my grandfather often re-read Eugene Onegin, so one night before going to bed he recited it to me by heart. it was amazing

@viwion

3 ай бұрын

Wow, and our students still complain that they were forced to memorize Tatiana's letter. Your grandfather is an incredible man

I’ve recently decided to go on a journey though Russian literature and classical music. It’s such great grand world out there that so many people are missing!

@user-gs9tb4tl4d

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your interest to our legacy, enjoy ❤ From Russia with love

@emmanikitina8859

5 ай бұрын

I left Russia bcs of its people and the regime, but I adore Russian culture. It is a magic and majestic world. So many incredible brilliant names.

@Pakicetus_

5 ай бұрын

@@emmanikitina8859 Very good, Russia is better off without people like you.

@NivianFey

5 ай бұрын

​@@emmanikitina8859I returned to Russia, because of its people, lol

@Qvadratus.

5 ай бұрын

@@emmanikitina8859 so you just want to enjoy the good and leave the suffering to the rest.

As a Serb who, like 90% of my people, dearly love Russia, and all Russian’s, it is indispensable to live without great Russian writers. I was grown with their literature and thanks to it, I had one important moral compass more in my life. However, it is easy for us Serbs to feel and understand great Russians because we have the same Slavic Orthodox roots and soul. Вечна љубав Русији и све општој руској култури. ❤️

@EkoFranko

3 ай бұрын

>important moral compas many russian writers were slave owners. Pushkin was a slave owner, also he had imperialistic and antiukrainian views.

@ordinaryjane34

3 ай бұрын

To dear Serbs from Russians with love❤

@Billiethekid8

3 ай бұрын

Both nations did war crimes and ethnic cleansing yes you guys have many common Wow such a beautiful friendship First country occupies georgia,ukraine,controls north caucasuss Second country did genocide in 90s and murdered thousands of albanians Don't forget bombs my serbian friend Slava ukraine 🇺🇦 გაუმარჯოს საქართველოს 🇬🇪

@EkoFranko

3 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8 dont cry

@bobilaforce8252

3 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8 well 1941-45 in Jasenovac Croats and Bosnian SS handschar division have massacred over 800 000 Serbs, included the whole relatives and family if my mother!!!

Interesting video. Based on the anti-Russia comments, it seems literature can’t escape politics. Might be time for a video on “can art be separated from the artist?”

@niccoloflorence

7 ай бұрын

And since when being a Russian has become a crime? The homogeneous bath of blue and yellow in the West robes itself of individualistic vision and freedom of thought, and believing narratives of those in power is in itself against the artistic vision. "‘There is a word in Newspeak,’ said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’" - 1984

@VickiNikolaidis

7 ай бұрын

​@@niccoloflorenceit's good to be Russian.

@anonymousbirdie

6 ай бұрын

Russian literature is another tool of propaganda, so yes, not the best time to read the literature of terrorists

@defentel5686

5 ай бұрын

It should be separated from artist, if it doesn’t - that is not art

@niccoloflorence

5 ай бұрын

@@defentel5686 Ah, if artists were to be separated, no one would tell a Picasso from a Matisse, a Stravinsky from a Rimsky-Korsakov, a Nabokov from a de Sade: what makes art art is the unique perspective that the artist brings to the table, robbed of that we'd better visit Smith's pin factory.

The Russian experience holds many deep and profound lessons for the entirety of humankind, so we are all blessed for having available so many of their brilliant and inspired poets, novelists and philosophers.

@ClaimClam

4 ай бұрын

These "realists" just led their societies down dark and destructive paths.

@viktorias63

4 ай бұрын

The Russophilia is strong with this one

@Dysphored

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@viktorias63There is no Russophilia in this comment. Just obvios and pure facts

@LittleJohnnyBrown

4 ай бұрын

@@viktorias63 tf are you even talking about?

@danicadabic9789

3 ай бұрын

@@viktorias63 and the Russophobia is strong with you.

My favourite novel is Lew Tolstoi’s “Resurrection”. Having the Slavic mother tongue, Orthodox faith, similar tradition and the same Slavic soul, it is easier for me to feel and understand those great, great Russian (world’s!) giant-writers. Thank you for this excellent video. Greetings from Belgrade / Serbia.

I'm from Ukraine ,but i very love russian literature. Moreover I'm niw reading Goncarov "Oblomov". Thank you for video, was very intresting.

@angelaz20

3 ай бұрын

Me too, from Odessa. I feel blessed that I can read in Russian. Reading now Bulgakov “Master and Margarita”

@user-bg5ts8ve8v

3 ай бұрын

Нам повезло, на самом деле, что мы знаем один из сложных языков в мире и можем читать на этом языке. Киев.

@CA-jz9bm

2 ай бұрын

This comment is stupid, Russian literature is yours too. Same history, same language, same religion, same genes (yes according to every study in existence)… difference are there only when they created artificially

@Alexandra_Indina

2 ай бұрын

​@@CA-jz9bmactually it's your comment that is stupid.

@cristiangaban960

2 ай бұрын

@@CA-jz9bm The only difference is that Russians never had democracy, never wanted democracy and will never fight for democracy.

Me(russian): Ok, KZread, show me something western that allows to improve my English. KZread:

@klarachiamarsi5935

3 ай бұрын

"Friends" tv-series. The best of modern conversational English.

@IisLasagna

24 күн бұрын

Go drink vodka until you can't tell that this is about russian literature

I recently read that Russian schools teach that literature is the record of a people's spiritual history. I couldn't agree more. The answer to the last question changes from time to time. It is probably Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter, as I am now a bit tired of realism.

@daydays12

5 ай бұрын

Why 'a people's spiritual history' rather than 'peoples' spiritual histories? Imperialist nationalism à la Hitler. Try Shakespeare's plays for humanity.

@wlrlel

5 ай бұрын

​@@daydays12Shakespeare is not the poet of humanity, but of life. That's a difference.

@bojanakolak7451

5 ай бұрын

@@daydays12 you don't say? Strange use of "imperialisam" and Shakespeare and humanity coming from the Empire where sun never sets! Ridiculous!

@daydays12

5 ай бұрын

Come on! You can't be serious. Shakespeare was dead before the British Empire started. He was born in 1564 and died in 1616 Here is quote from wikipedia about Russia...: " Between 1550 and 1700, the Russian Tsardom expanded by an average of 35,000 square km per year. Major events during this era involved the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, Russian conquest of Siberia; and the reign of Peter I, who transformed the tsardom into an empire"@@bojanakolak7451

@ClaimClam

4 ай бұрын

Negative pessimistic spirituality. These "literatures" promoted the mind virus that contribute to tge hellscape of Russia today.

Great video!, don’t listen to all the anti Russian comments. Keep doing what up you like to do and keep reading what you want to read. As someone exploring the Russian writers your videos have been very helpful!! Thank you for all the work you do on these long videos!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

@LLlap

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, in 1943 make a vide about the great german writers.

@Qvadratus.

5 ай бұрын

@@LLlap or in the age of heartless capitalism go watch American movie.

@Billiethekid8

5 ай бұрын

​@@Qvadratus.Yeah communists have big geart especially when they make revolution and kill millions of people who oppose them

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

​@@Billiethekid8dont think anyone has killed more people than Kissinger. Who was a capitalist, but ok

@kiberme

4 ай бұрын

@@LLlap in your case its more like "Imagine talking about great Jewish writers in 1943".

Love Russia and Russian literature and art. No amount of propaganda will ever make me change my mind. I am from an old English colony, but I love English comedy and literature too.

@rudzon

4 ай бұрын

it's easy when they are not trying to kill you every day

@sorryminati4719

4 ай бұрын

@@rudzon there are hundreds of millions killed because of British colonialism, way more than one invasion ever can

@rudzon

4 ай бұрын

@@sorryminati4719 Oh, thanks! I will relax and die here now peacefully. fu

@akap_987

3 ай бұрын

@@rudzon You can hate the current regime but what has Russian literature got to do with that.

@Billiethekid8

3 ай бұрын

@@sorryminati4719 that still doesn't change fact russia did ethnic cleansing against north caucasian nations And occupied georgia Annexed ukraine and did thousands of war crimes in this mad war started by russia))))

...and Saltykov-Ščedrin, so easily forgotten.

@pyatig

3 ай бұрын

Dark Souls reference?

I fell in love with Russian literature when I was young. I am still into it. So much so that I have been learning Russian. I actually have been reading some of Pushkin´s short stories in the original. Heaven!

I can read Russian classics over and over. They have shaped the modern civilization. The best!❤

Hannah Arendt argued that national guilt is a principal that fascism is founded on. We are responsible for what we do as individuals...none of us can survive condemnation if we carry the blame for those of our countrymen past and present. Many commenters here need to rethink their attitude...or just start thinking. This canon of literature is spectacular and ALWAYS worth studying.

@riveteye93

4 ай бұрын

​@@fpsadresI don't think you understand what he was trying to say

@user-ss6tq3yo8r

3 ай бұрын

There is no guilt, neither common, neither individual. There's nothing to blame Russia for and nothing for Russians to feel guilty about. If you think otherwise, it's ignorance

@axiomaticidioms3857

Ай бұрын

I miss American burger days... Now way too many people want Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Greek, French, Indian, and insect food... Hamburgers are more exotic than the rest anymore...

@axiomaticidioms3857

Ай бұрын

What if everyone in the world stopped seeking governmental reparations and vengeance? What if we all took care of our families, communities, and neighbors?

@aaropajari7058

Ай бұрын

@@axiomaticidioms3857 Absolutely. But powerful interests fool people into believing that vengeance for real or imagined offences or threats is HOW you take care of your community. People have been falling for it since the beginning of time.

“A Hero of Our Time” translation is incorrect. Russian word “geroy” has two meanings: “hero” and “character”. It’s believed that Lermontov actually meant “character” since Pechorin is a representation of a typical Russian young man of this time period.

@shardes

4 ай бұрын

I always thought it's "hero" as in sarcastic.

@nahidaxnilou

3 ай бұрын

True, it’s more like character of a time not a “hero”

@eccehomer8182

2 ай бұрын

That makes sense… I never thought of Pechorin as a hero.

@kot-b

2 ай бұрын

​@@shardesвы не далеки от истины

Спасибо за вашу работу) Все эти писатели и произведения удивительно красивы и актуальны, потому что они о человеке и его душе, духе, одиночестве и борьбе внутри и снаружи. Огромное спасибо, что вы проявляете интерес и делитесь вашими знаниями. Благодарю Вас ❤😊

Brother, Gogol wasn't an outsider, he was from a region of Russia, the Ukraine as a separate country happened much later.

@tatianamokienko

3 ай бұрын

Gogol wrote in Russian, here is the answer

When chichikov, near the beginning, and one landowner take turns offering to the other the opportunity to enter the doorway back and forth in Dead Souls is pure comic genius.

@emmanikitina8859

5 ай бұрын

👍👏

@fifealganaraz7466

4 ай бұрын

Google is not rusian

@amazing_bastard

4 ай бұрын

@@fifealganaraz7466learn to spell at least... and he wrote in Russian and lived in Russia, so

@aa3037

3 ай бұрын

@@fifealganaraz7466 Yeah, Yandex is russian

Russian literature is one of a few greates literatures of the world (French, British, German, Spanish and some other). Thank you for sheding light here, especially in the time where blind hordes of people who do not read books, condemn those who read them. Glory to Russian literature: humanity and braveness

@vitalikblack3223

4 ай бұрын

Отчего же руzzкая литература не может научить руzzких тому что военные преступления это плохо?

@user-zm2zv6bw8i

4 ай бұрын

@@vitalikblack3223 Хрюкни, Шевченка.

@Vateir

4 ай бұрын

​@@vitalikblack3223Плохо это когда они против людей совершаются

@vitalikblack3223

4 ай бұрын

@@Vateir , а то есть руzzкая литература научила руzzких, что украинцы не люди?

@Vateir

4 ай бұрын

@@vitalikblack3223 Нет! Я просто фашист

Thanks so much for this introduction to Russian literature. It’s really frustrating that life is too short to read so many top notch art works and learn and understand so much of all the important knowledge out there.

People equating Dostoevsky with Putin, will not dare equate Emerson with Bush Jr. great video

@alexadrakhudobina1624

5 ай бұрын

Who is Emerson?

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

​@@alexadrakhudobina1624Ralph Waldo Emerson. Check him out.

@0MVR_0

4 ай бұрын

​​@@alexadrakhudobina1624Ralph Waldo Emerson, existentialist writing often on the momentum of the American east coast struggling to sprawl westward in domination of nature. Oddly similar to the Moskovite expansion east part Siberia

Люди в комментариях озверели окончательно. Столько лицемерия я в жизни не видела. Вроде все разумные, а отделять культуру от правительства не можем до сих пор. Делим авторов, которых уже в живых нет несколько веков. И вместо того, чтобы просто читать их произведения и наслаждаться ими, рефлексировать, делать для себя какие - то выводы, они глотку рвать готовы друг другу. Неужели до сих пор не понятно, что власть ≠ государство и страна. Great video, thank you very much for all your work and dedication! 🙏

@ninaotan7811

4 ай бұрын

Власть бывает что избирается населением. Например, офицер КГБ был избран населением России в ходе свободных выборов в 2000г.

@Chaldon-hl6yk

4 ай бұрын

Это не отменяет факта что тарас бульба запрещён на украине

@ninaotan7811

4 ай бұрын

@@Chaldon-hl6yk Даже запрещение русского фильма не отменяет того факта, что население России в подавляющем большинстве захотело, чтобы или правил офицер КГБ.

@Grek1574

4 ай бұрын

@@Chaldon-hl6ykфакт что Бульба не запрещен в Украине настолько же силен как факт того что вы проданный ура-патриот империалист😂

@Chaldon-hl6yk

4 ай бұрын

в украине уже ничто не может быть запрещено@@Grek1574

3 things to say: Zamyatin, Bulgakov and Pasternak

Thank you very much for the video. As a Russian, this was very pleasant and informative to watch. I even found out some things I didn't know before. God bless.

RUSSIAN LITERATURE is most HEALING ❤️‍🩹 and shows understanding of the tiniest detectable emotions in humans. RUSSIA is so REAL and it shows in literature. My favourite poet is Esenin and Mayakovsky foreva! Love and Respect to everyone here, guys.

Kudos. I love Russian literature with a passion that would make Lord Byron look like a Tobacconist. Ignore the critics.

A former British politician and chick-lit author now based in America seriously tweeted that Russia had no culture compared to the USA. She studied literature at Oxford University, but also had a severe coke habit, so I suppose it balances out.

Thank you so much for this - Looking forward to part 2 looking at twentieth century Russian greats, including Bulgakov, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn etc!

@shahlabadel8628

5 ай бұрын

Yes, part 2 would be great.

@TheSaltydog07

5 ай бұрын

Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Gogol

@kxkxsjk2

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, it would be super

@user-pm3wk6lw6m

5 ай бұрын

F Solzhenitsyn though

@user-bl2lu2nx2u

4 ай бұрын

Sasviva. Bolshoi.

Thank you for popularizing these absolute masterpieces. Great literature will outlive any political context

Thank you! I'm so glad to see videos like this.

You are amazing Fiction Beast. Thank you for all your work 🌼🌻🌼🌻

Great video! Thank you so very much for your generosity on imparting your profound knowledge in a so interesting way!

" The best novelists were Russians. If you make a list of the ten greatest novelists in the whole history of the world, the first five have to be the Russian ones, leaving only five for the rest of the world. Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close. In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."

@mindlinkstechnologies5988

5 ай бұрын

osho?

@willieluncheonette5843

5 ай бұрын

@@mindlinkstechnologies5988 yes

@wlrlel

5 ай бұрын

That's a little bit too much praise.

@user-gn5do5yq6s

5 ай бұрын

​@@wlrlelhell yeah

@bojanakolak7451

5 ай бұрын

@@wlrlel have you read any of his works? Can you name anyone equally good?

Thank you very much for this, I really appreciate all your work, it is subtle and highly interesting.

Endless thanks to you!!! I have a new list of reading to do!

EXCELLENT JOB. I have a Ph.D in Russian Literature and I learn tons from you:)

@reggaefan2700

6 ай бұрын

You should be the one teach him since you have a PhD in Russian Literature.

@LLlap

5 ай бұрын

Seriously? This was high school level at best.

@janicelehane6373

Ай бұрын

Wow that's impressive❤

Thank you very much for this video. It is useful to hear about these authors once again and the foreign analysis is very interesting. It is surprising and exotic when foreigners have a deep understanding of our culture and our cultural figures. Thank you for this

Great job, sir. Full respect for what you did to the task

I learn so much from your videos. I’ve listened to them over and over in the last month. Thank you!

That was such a great video. Even though I've read many of these writers I learnt a lot from it so thank you.

just a friendly reminder that someone’s interest in russian culture (literature, cinema, theatre, music etc) doesn’t mean their agreement with todays russian political vector. everyone has an inviolable right to get a knowledge. those people are famous for being great masters, not russian belonging. btw, if you get triggers from mentioning anything related to russia, you also have a right not to watch it. but don’t point others on what they should learn or not.

@CA-jz9bm

2 ай бұрын

Well so called “Russian politic” Trying to save Russian culture in Ukraine, not sure how you can love Russian culture and simultaneously want to destroy it in Ukraine… I mean Dostoyevsky is hated there and statues of Cathrine the Great being taking down in Odessa, the city which she build 🤷‍♂️

Russian philosophy is a class of its own. Russians tend to have a philosophical slant on human suffering.

@user-ss3pq4wt7j

4 ай бұрын

It is not Russian, it's Christian, Orthodox Christian. We are as much a part of Christ as much we are a part of His suffering and sacrifice.

@ElenaKozyreva

4 ай бұрын

According to one version, the roots of this phenomenon are in Orthodoxy. There is no remission of sins on Earth in him. And that's why a person lives in fear of meeting the Creator.

It was very interesting to refresh all these masterpieces in memory. Thank you for the video!

Brilliant! I am watching this in bits. Thankyou for an important video.

Loved every minute. Thank you. Australia

I don’t like the bias. I was reading the great Russian writers from my childhood (10 or 11 years old) and I had learned about life and values. I love Russian ballet , music, I think it is an incredible culture. The People that “hate Russians “ are ignorant “ . Thank you.

Thank you so much for this video! ❤

A fine video, chap! Will be sharing it with my literature-minded friends. Well done.

Love this video 🙏

The Idiot by Mr Dostoyevsky brought me to tears and changed my life. The first and only novel that made me weep and I think it is because it taught me pity. Not that I had never pitied or felt pity. But something about a great artist that puts it before you makes you understand.

@ishmaelforester9825

3 ай бұрын

I mean specifically Myshkin's story about the unfortunate girl and her funeral. The class of schoolchildren who pick up her coffin - I'm almost weeping thinking of it. I read translations of Mr Dostoyevsky but nothing compares to that moment. It moved me deeply and is a real memory in literature for me.

@ishmaelforester9825

3 ай бұрын

Chapter Seven, in my copy

Thankyou for this scope This was pleasant to listen to to to to

Your pictorial choices are delightful. Perfect accompaniment.

My first novel was Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. It had a huge impact on me and my thinking. It's depths of life made me think about things no western school teachers could teach nor even think to teach. I love eveything about Russia and its people and history. It saddens me so much that Russian people and their culture are being ostracised by the west so much because of disagreements in the political spheres. Even when they play tennis their flag cannot be shown. So ridiculous. The west will never eradicate the Slavonic Russian soul.

You put a great deal of work into your videos man and i truly enjoy them. I could not thank you enough. I personally wish you the best of luck for a giving us the opportunity to take a few hour break from this ugly and turbulent world. ❤❤❤

@helenorgarycrevonis2022

4 ай бұрын

Yours is the most relevant comment. Russian souls are sensative and currently most are very deeply hurt due to current events. We pray for a better world next year -2024, which will require a majpr change in the leaders of many countries.

You are a find ! Absolutely love this channel 🙏🏼 Thank you ❤

Thank you for a great vlog.

Great video not only the script but also the presentation, the works of art you choose to illustrate the narration make the video more engaging

I mostly read Tolstoy. THAT is already amazing, unsettling, and thought-provoking.

Thank you for the video

Thank you for this amazingly insightful presentation of a subject that I know nothing about. I feel enriched in my soul to learn about these greats of Russian literature. The added bonus of the historical backdrop of these author's lives is much appreciated. Four hours of my life well spent here. Now to go and get these books.

My Swedish Grandpa always said Russia has the greatest culture in Europe, even though he was fervent anti-communism, anti-soviet

@user-pe7cs3cj7s

4 ай бұрын

You need to be an anti-communist to really love Russia. Saying as a Russian

@kindlingking

4 ай бұрын

​@@user-pe7cs3cj7sи да и нет. С одной стороны да, потому что большевики фактически потоптались на русской культуре, когда пришли к власти, с другой - они же затем привнесли в неё много нового, добавили ещё одну не менее яркую страницу в её историю. Так что тут смотря как подойти к вопросу.

@realdementsya

4 ай бұрын

@@kindlingkingбольшевики ровным счетом не привнесли в культуру ничего, только давили ее, репрессируя и убивая писателей, композиторов, поэтов. Даже при царях не было такого давления на русскую мысль. Не заслуга большевиков то, что ростки русской культуры смогли пробиться сквозь асфальт, в который они пытались ее закатать

@user-ss3pq4wt7j

4 ай бұрын

​@@realdementsyaбольшевики безусловно желали развивать культуру. Но поскольку они считали, что идеология должна рулить всем, в том числе и культурой, это явно сказалось.

@realdementsya

4 ай бұрын

@@user-ss3pq4wt7j большевики не желали развивать русскую культуру, они хотели ее заменить большевицкой коммунистической пролетарской культурой взамен великорусского шовинизма, это исторический факт

Thank you very much for this fantastic video! I got to the end and I agree with you, I'm in love with Russian literature as well

Great effort. Thanks.

Amazing job, this is the video, everybody should see!

❤❤ from India....a huge fan of Leo Tolstoy and fyodor Dyotsoki, chekhov

Thank you for these long videos

Great video! Though i would say you added content for ten videos in one. Make a series, will grow your channel for sure. You have great content.

Thank you for your work. Really appreaciate it

Reminder that art is not bound by politics thanks

Wonderful video. Thank you.

Thank you so much!

Dead Souls is a great introduction to Russian Literature. It has the beauty and philosophical weight of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky without all the commitment. Chekov's The Student for anyone who cannot read a book.

@viktorias63

4 ай бұрын

Yet still written by a Ukrainian based on Ukrainian tales and settings

@Kid_Ikaris

4 ай бұрын

@@viktorias63oh interesting 🤔 I never knew that about Gogol. There's no doubt it is Russian literature by virtue of the fact that it is written in Russian, but I didn't realize it had Ukrainian roots as well. I wish we could ask Gogol what he thought about the Ukrainian/Russian identity. What were things like in the Russia and Ukraine of his day?

@viktorias63

4 ай бұрын

@@Kid_Ikaris he did call himself a "maloros" which was something Muscowiets (so called Russians) would refer to Ukrainians as. He was perfectly aware of his identity, he was born and raised in Poltava until his youth. His roots were not just Ukrainian, his stories and settings were based on Ukrainian culture and tales. While reading the stories, mind the fact that this is Ukrainian culture not Moscowy.

@viktorias63

4 ай бұрын

@@Kid_Ikaris to answer your question yes there were. Ukrainian and Moscowiets (so called Russians) very much had a different identity back then.

@Kid_Ikaris

4 ай бұрын

@@viktorias63 Thanks for letting me know!

Please make more videos about Russian literature.

So detailed and talented!

Very well done, you beast.

Thanks for this! Russian lit seems more relevant than ever.

@daydays12

5 ай бұрын

It's Imperialism?

@polzzza

5 ай бұрын

​​@@daydays12by this logic you can exclude good portion of the world's literature from your readings, because half of the classic writers supported the regimes they lived in in some way or another, or were abusers to their wifes, or racists, or shitty people in general, etc. Oh, and I guess you never heard about dissident Russian/USSR writers/poets/directors? There were plenty of them, it was a whole ass movement at some point. And I guess the Petrashevsky circle will tell nothing to you, Dostoevsky was almost executed because of it. But what do I know...

@daydays12

5 ай бұрын

I don't understand, though I appreciate , your reply. I was replying to peter's post "Russian lit seems more relevant than ever" by asking a question, not making a statement. . "it's Imperialism?" This is a quotation from a teacher of Russian Literature: "Seeing the rubble of a theater in Mariupol, hearing of Mariupol citizens starving because of Russian airstrikes, I wonder what Dostoevsky - who specifically focused his piercing moral eye on the question of the suffering of children in his 1880 novel “The Brothers Karamazov” - would say in response to the Russian army’s bombing a theater where children were sheltering. The word “children” was spelled out on the pavement outside the theater in large type so it could be seen from the sky. There was no misunderstanding of who was there". !!!! The next paragraph is important: "At the same time, nor should readers look away from the unseemliness of Dostoevsky and his sense of Russian exceptionalism. These dogmatic ideas about Russian greatness and Russia’s messianic mission are connected to the broader ideology that has fuelled Russia’s past colonial mission, and current Russian foreign politics on violent display in Ukraine." It is not surprising that Putin says that Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' is his favourite work of Russian literature.. I am sure you understand why! Answer, a quotation from Professor Ewa Thompson: " You remember Napoleon is going towards Moscow, and he finally takes Moscow and then the Russian army is going in the opposite direction, chasing Napoleon. And what do we see? How does Tolstoy describe that? Well, Tolstoy says that Napoleon’s army went eastward, went through Germany, and then reached Russia, and then back. The Russian army pushing westward reach Germany and finally gets to Paris. Now, in this description, there is a total obliteration of all those nations that were in between Germany and Russia, and millions, if not tens of millions of readers got this image that Europe consists of Western Europe and then Russia. All those borderline peoples are simply not important, they don’t count, they will soon be Russified anyway, or already have been Russified. The image of, say, Poland, that Tolstoy gave to millions of readers was extremely negative. I mean, negative in the sense that it was not a country worthy of existence." Ukraine doesn't exist for Putin, or if it does it will be Russified....Putin is happy to see these same views expressed by Tolstoy. It confirms him in his destructive delusion. @@polzzza

@NivianFey

5 ай бұрын

​@@daydays12it's your poor education

@daydays12

5 ай бұрын

What is? My education has been pretty good.... details on request.....@@NivianFey

Awesome video. Great work Fiction Beast 🙏. I love reading and Russian literature is one of my favorites... Usually, i prefer reading and deciding for myself, but this channel has something special...maybe the accent, maybe the fact that i agree with many of FBs comments, maybe the love for Russian and French literature... And thank you for giving me tens of new books to read. 🙏🙏🙏

Well done!

Отличное видео! Шутки классные! :D

You could go for great Russian’s scientists as well! Their contributions are essential to humanity!

Thanks for the video, modern Russian novels are also superb!❤

Very good. Thank you!

That's great, thank you 🙏

Thank you very much for this magnificent content. Did you know that noses never stop growing? 😊

Russian literature is truly spectacular!

17:10 After hearing you say you had no friends, I spoke aloud, "Now you have tons of friends/fans." 😊 You would be a great friend to have coffee with and talk about all kinds of subjects.

Simply brilliant!

Now you need to be a brave person not to be afraid to talk about Russian literature. Unfortunately, today any mention of Russian culture causes a wave of hatred and serves as a reason for criticism. People cannot separate today's events from the writers of the past. Russian literature has never served as a justification for colonialism, but on the side of the defense of man and humanism.

@seanpatterson5047

7 ай бұрын

well, do not read any of US and British book it's FAR MORE rasist and imperialistic by any standard!))

@Ganglo-Saxon

7 ай бұрын

Bro has never read Pushkin

@anonymousbirdie

6 ай бұрын

Russian culture is a vessel of Russian propaganda these days, and it’s not a good time to read the literature of terrorist nation

@aaropajari7058

6 ай бұрын

Excellent comment. It is a ridiculous and very ignorant situation. Let's curse Anton Checkov for the Ukraine invasion...good grief.

@biddyearly9262

5 ай бұрын

The Anglo western world (US-UK) can STFU and sit down, they don't get to preach peace to anyone.

My mother knows over 30 of Pushkin and Lermontov poems by heart. Can't use a smartphone 😅

@1nn0centBystander

3 ай бұрын

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Great work

Thank you. entertaining and insightful perceptive

Dostoevsky notes from underground and dreams of a ridiculous man we're amazing

If you upload all your videos on X Twitter , people will follow You , You are the best , your intentions is pure , God will bless you ….. I will always be grateful for your channel sir !!!

Such an enjoyable video, I have read most of these but not for many years. Think its time to go back to the greats. When you read the final lines of Fathers and Sons I could remember crying my eyes out the first time I finished it. His other novels are just as enjoyable, Rudin, Virgin Soil etc I'm definitely biased towards Turgenev and Chekhov but there is something about Russian classics in general that makes them difficult to put down. The characters are so enduring. On a side note, can't stand Tolstoys moralising, but that could be because I'm a Turgenev fangirl haha. One day I want to visit his grave with flowers and see Russia for myself

Great vid

My uncle is not knows it all, but mt uncle was a rightful man. And in was written in Ironical manner. Just meaning that "My uncle died as soon as his health declined" Like, what a good man, passed his inheritance without a need of constant visitations to a bedridden relative)