Intute presents the 15 most recent Web resources for education and research added to our Russian subject area 9 Feb 2010 03:30:00 GMT en-uk http://www.intute.ac.uk/russian/latest.html Logo for the Intute service http://www.intute.ac.uk/images/intute_100_new.png 100 42 http://www.intute.ac.uk/russian/latest.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul17052 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul17052 Russkii pisatel' I.S. Turgenev is a website dedicated to the famous ninteenth century Russian author of the realist novel 'Ottsy i deti' ('Fathers and children'). Created by the Turgenev museum-estate, the resource contains: an illustrated biography plus related articles and encyclopedia entries; an extensive section of primary works and secondary literature; numerous images: information about various Turgenev-connected museums and theatre; current news; a good links page and a guest book. The English language version has: a biography; a photos page; a library which includes full length text of several works in translation. Slow to load, the site is nevertheless easy to navigate. It will be of most use to students and teachers of Russian literature. Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080603-17071539 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080603-17071539 Far from Moscow, "a portal designed to showcase new music from Russia", has been created by a member of academic staff at the University of California, David MacFadyen. MacFadyen started the website to satisfy a wish for knowledge about popular Russian music. The website Far from Moscow covers all types of genres of music, all created in Russia, such as rock, pop, electronic, experimental, instrumental, folk, Latin, jazz, reggae and easy listening. The website features audio and video elements for which software is required, news sections, links of further sources of information and links where information for the site has been gathered and links to record labels. It is possible to sign up for RSS feeds of both new features added to the website, as well as a feed of comments. Again, software is required. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul11557 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul11557 The website "Khrushchev and Khrushchev: from the Kremlin to Brown University" is the online version of an exhibition organised and hosted by Brown University Library in 2002. It focuses on the visit by the Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev (1894-1971, premier 1954-1964) to the United States of America in October 1960. The second Krushchev of the exhibition title is his son Sergei Krushchev, who famously took American citizenship in 1999 and donated his father's papers to Brown University Library. The exhibition provides a wonderful insight, through annotated illustrations, into the importance of presenting a unified front in the face of the communist leader. There are sections devoted to Nikita Krushchev, Sergei Krushchev, the publications of Sergie Krushchev, and the memoirs of Nikita Krushchev. Krushchev's memoirs were painstakingly dictated onto a number of tape reels and fortunately copied and deposited in various places. There is currently a project to record and transcribe the materials onto CD-ROM. In addition to the illustrations there is also useful bibliographical information. This site is excellent for those who are researching Soviet history or Soviet-American relations. It also stands alone as an interesting online exhibition. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-20410221 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-20410221 Obraz Dostoevskogo is an attractive, easy to navigate resource of photographs, artistic representations and written memoirs about the Russian writer, created by the Petersburg literaturno-memorialnyi muzei F. M. Dostoevskogo. The site has a good English language version, and all images are annotated. They include: photographs; painted portraits (including modern, posthumous representations); numerous sketches and cartoons; sculpture; commemorative medals. An alphabetical index of artists is provided, with brief biographical details. Perhaps the most useful feature is the section on ‘Dostoevsky in the eyes of his contemporaries’, which cites the reminiscences of family, friends and colleagues. The site’s one flaw is that these extracts are given without citation references, although the page on ‘habits’ does provide some references. This site will be of most use to teachers and students of Russian literature. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-20280359 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-20280359 Literaturno-memorialnyi muzei F. M. Dostoevskogo is the beautifully produced, easy to navigate, detailed site of the Petersburg Dostoevsky museum. The site provides: biographical information about the writer in chronological format, with family portraits; a link to the sub-site Dostoevsky’s Image (catalogued separately); a chronology of literary works with links to overviews and to the full-text source; detailed descriptions of (and links to) six other Dostoevsky museums; photographs of Dostoevsky monuments; an article on Dostoevsky’s Petersburg; links to photographs and reviews of Dostoevsky-related plays; illustrated descriptions of Dostoevsky-related films; links to other sites. The museum section of the site provides: an illustrated guide to the museum and ‘memorial flat’ where the writer spent the last two years of his life; details of the museum’s history, structure, location etc. There is also information on the museum’s theatre, exhibitions and conferences, and a limited English language version of the site. A wonderful resource for students and teachers of Russian literature, and of some interest to researchers in the field. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-11413787 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-11413787 A celebration of women writers from Russia is a substantial list of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century Russian women writers, with hypertext links to more detailed sources and online works. A few contemporary writers are included. Some individuals are better known as historical or political figures than writers (Anna Vyrubova and Galina Starovoitova, for example) and much of the linked material will be of use to historians (e.g. Freda Utley; Alexandra Kollontai; Emma Goldberg, deported to the Soviet Union from America in 1919). Not all links are current, and some are to sources which are not authoritative, but this is a good starting point for students and teachers wishing to explore Russian women’s literature and history further. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-10343991 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090630-10343991 Russian women painters : 1893 exposition is a subsection of a larger site created by US literature professor Kathleen Nichols, which lists artworks by women exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago 1893. Very few details are given about the artists themselves (in some cases only the surname is known), but images of the works exhibited are provided where known, and where not, representative images are given. This site will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of gender studies, particularly those working on nineteenth century women artists. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-20205729 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-20205729 The Doukhobor collection is a database of primary sources held at Simon Frazer University, relating to a Russian religious sect ('the spirit-wrestlers') which emigrated to Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Over 260 digitised primary sources (500+ images) dating from 1898 to 1975 may be browsed or searched by keyword. These include: letters; photographs; postcards; books and book chapters; magazine articles; documents; interviews. The site is structured around the following topics: Doukhobor History to 1930; the 1932 perjury trial of Peter Verigin (1881-1939); Verigin’s 1932 incarceration on Piers Island; Schism after the Death of Peter Verigin, 1859-1924; Conflict with the Government over the Vital Statistics Act; Count Leo Tolstoy and the Doukhobors. Topics include links to digitised sources and/or a bibliography based on materials in the collection. There is also a bibliography on the Sons of Freedom, a Doukhobor sect, and a further page of links to other sources of information on the Doukhobors in Canada. Images are of excellent quality, and include rare publications such as a translated letter from Tolstoy written to the Doukhobors in 1900. A fascinating resource for researchers of Russian religious history, and of potential interest for Tolstoy scholars. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-21141226 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-21141226 Starye gazety is an easy to navigate website created by amateur enthusiasts which provides access to full-text Russian and Soviet newspapers from 1912–1991, browseable by year, month or publication. It would be considerably more useful if most of the over 1,400 issues were available in HTML (currently around 200 are) or PDF rather than as DjVu files (requires a plug-in linked to from the site but complicated to install). Publications range from the obvious (Pravda, Argumenty i fakty) to the rather more obscure (Britanskii soiuznik, Severnyi kolkhoznik).There is also: a forum; a search page; a small, eclectic library of Soviet publications; an encyclopaedia mostly constructed from Soviet encyclopaedias, with some entries by the author. ‘Memorable dates’ includes materials on Bloody Sunday, the dropping of the atom bomb and the battle for Moscow. This site will be of some use for researchers and teachers of Soviet history and culture, and those with an interest in the Russian media. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-19481634 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-19481634 Coins and Medals of Imperial Russia is an online exhibition of the Russian coins housed at Yale University, dating from the reign of Ivan IV to Nicholas II. The exhibition is organised into chronological periods (by monarch), each with a brief summary of significant historical and monetary events, and clickable thumbnails of coins from the period. The quality of images is excellent, and both sides of each coin are shown. Separate pages catalogue: commemorative medals (such as the one struck to commemorate the liberation of the serfs by Alexander II); paper currency and banknotes, with good quality images and descriptions of each item. This site will be of most interest to teachers, researchers and students of Russian history. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-18163737 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-18163737 St. Petersburg: window on the east - window on the west is an online exhibition of items from the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan. Most exhibits are taken from publications produced in Saint Petersburg, the majority dating from 1890 to 1925. Exhibits are organised around the following topics: historical background 18th-19th centuries; historical background 19th-20th centuries; satire; book art and publishing; dance, music, theatre (with excellent images relating to ballet); journals; symbolism; acmeism; futurism; ‘many roads lead to Ann Arbor’ (materials in the Ardis archive and Ann Arbor publications). Items include: historical maps; postcards; extracts from newspapers and journals; illustrations (including some fascinating artistic responses to Bloody Sunday); book covers and frontispieces; photographs; letters; journals (covers and extracts); textile designs; extracts from books. Digitised images are available in various sizes, in excellent quality. Each item is accompanied by an explanatory text of varying length, and images are catalogued with descriptions. Images may also be searched by keyword or browsed. This site will be of use to teachers and students of Russian history and culture (particularly of the Silver Age), and of some interest to researchers. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-19345544 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-19345544 Oklikni ulitsy Moskvy [Call out Moscow streets] is a project exploring the historical names and topography of Moscow, created by a professor of philology. The site consists of: a typographical dictionary of stream, river, pond, lake and ravine names; an anthology of poetry about Moscow arranged chronologically (1825-1999); academic articles and reports about Moscow names (including material relating to the post-Soviet revision of place names); ‘imia-istoriia-kul’tura’ [name-history-culture], a section exploring the history of Moscow via place names; ‘starinnye okrainye Moskvy’ [the old outskirts of Moscow], linking to historical overviews of old Moscow suburbs (with a clickable map). Four other sections explore inner areas of Moscow through topographical names: the old city and trading centre; inside the Boulevard Ring; inside the Garden Ring; beyond the Kamer-Kollezhskii val, all with a clickable map. This is an interesting resource for teachers and researchers of Russian history and culture, particularly those focusing on Moscow or toponymy. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20061130-160948 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20061130-160948 The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web) is an ambitious project initiated by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Russian Ministry for Communications, which aims to make available the full-text authoritative primary and secondary literature pertaining to selected 11th- 20th century Russian literature and folklore (currently with limited full-text content). A developing resource, FEB-web can be navigated by: time period; author name (via author index); title of work (via index of works); or searched by keyword. A reference section offers access to a broad selection of dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Each author or work entry links to all or some of the following: a description of the contents of the ‘digital scholarly edition’ available on the site; full text versions of literary texts; full text versions of secondary literature about the text or author; a historical overview section; relevant dictionaries and encyclopaedia entries; bibliographies and indexes. Many of the works are available as PDFs or jpegs. The site is partially available in English, and not entirely intuitive to navigate – a collapsible menu in the side bar eventually leads to the digitised texts. This resource will be of great use to students, teachers and researchers of Russian literature and folklore. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-17355341 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-17355341 Narodnyi katalog pravoslavnoi arkhitektury is a user-generated content project aiming to collate and catalogue photographs of all the Orthodox churches, monasteries, chapels, belltowers and cathedrals in Russia. The site holds over 60,000 images, searchable by: keyword; geographical location (including Belarus); building type; construction date; architect; or a combination thereof. The catalogue can be browsed by: geographical location (oblast; region; town); diocese; participant (contributing photographers). There is also a links page and a forum. Many photos are accompanied by entries about the history of the building with citation references; others simply have an address, and sometimes details of how to get there or a link to the parish website. This site will be of most use to researchers and teachers of Russian religious architecture, culture and history. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-10104127 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-10104127 Russkoe literaturnoe nasledie on-line provides access to the full text of: the ninety volume edition of Tolstoy’s complete works which includes drafts, letters and diaries; dissertations on Tolstoy from the Russian State Library; plus scanned manuscripts family photographs and a bibliography of the contents of Tolstoy’s personal library, preserved at Yasnaya Polyana. A collaboration between the Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum and the Russian State Library, the site allows users to search both institutions’ catalogues and the full text materials simultaneously. Photographs and digitised manuscripts (including drawings and letters) may be browsed in the photo gallery section, but the manuscripts are too small to work from. An elegant timeline offers a brief, illustrated overview of Tolstoy’s life. This resource will be of use to researchers, students and teachers of Russian literature and culture. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT