Recognizing Pushkin in the West
A lot of Russia’s famous authors are known to the west, such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, but one of the most important is often overlooked — the dynamic, charismatic, trouble-some Alexander Pushkin. If you’ve heard of him, it might be because of the opera Eugene Onegin (known in Russia as Yevgeny Onegin), which is originally based on Pushkin’s famous novel of the same title, written in 1833.
The story is not written in prose, it’s written in iambic tetrameter,… Read More…
The Concept of the Russian Language
I am in no way an expert of the Russian language, but fortunately I have a unique perspective because I’m just a beginner learning Russian. Without teaching you how to speak Russian, I just want to give you a few insights into the way the Russian language works. I’ll begin here with two major insights, and I’ll bring more in future entries.
The Case System of Nouns:
There are 6 cases in Russia. What is a case? Good question,… Read More…
Privet! Welcome to our blog!
For me (Melissa, content editor for Travel All Russia), Russia was undiscovered only a year ago. In April 2009, my fellow American friend, Erin, and I sat down to lunch with someone from Norway and someone from Russia, who we had just met at a conference in France. Inevitably, our foreign friends began teaching us how to say relevant words in their native languages — such as knife and chickpea and hot skin (I know what you’re thinking, but,… Read More…
