RU 152 Russian Literature's "Bloody Age"
Schedule

The following class schedule information is provided as a general guide and is subject to change over the course of the semester. If the schedule needs to be adjusted, changes will be noted in class.

Weekly Schedule

Day	Time	Location
Monday	11:15-12:05	Chateau A
Wednesday	11:15-12:05	Chateau A
Friday	11:15-12:05	Chateau A

Tentative Course Calendar (Click one of the following links to jump ahead to a specified week.)

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Week 7 Week 8 Week 9

Week 10 Week 11 Week 12

Week 1	12 Feb. Introduction The Wanderers More 19th C Realists 14 Feb. CHEKHOV, ANTON (1860-1904) The Chameleon (1884) The Culprit (1885) Vanka (1886) Heartache (1886) The Kiss (1887) A Chekhov Biography Chekhov Links & Essays Levitan 16 Feb. An Attack of Nerves (1888) Anna on the Neck (1895) The Darling (1899)
Week 2	19 Feb. The Lady with the Pet Dog (1899) The Man in a Shell (1898) Gooseberries (1898) About Love (1898) 21 Feb. KUZMIN, MIKHAIL (1872-1946) WINGS (1907) On Kuzmin Kuzmin Collection Review of Kuzmin Book 23 Feb. Winter Carnival
Week 3	26 Feb. NAGRODSKAIA, EVDOKIA (1866-1930) THE WRATH OF DIONYSUS (1910) to p. 100   28 Feb. WRATH to end 2 Mar. BELY, ANDREI (1880-1934) PETERSBURG (1913-22) Chapters 1-2 (be sure to read the very useful notes!) On Bely & Petersburg The World of Art
Week 4	5 Mar. Chapters 3-4 Wachtel on Blok's Puppet Show Wachtel on Stravinsky's Petrushka More on Petrushka 7 Mar. Chapters 5-6 Wachtel on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring More on Rite of Spring 9 Mar. Chapters 7-end Petrushka (video MCTR 5215V in Sunderland) OR Rite of Spring (several recordings available)
Week 5	12 Mar. **PAPER 1 DUE** BABEL, ISAAC (1894-1938?) The Story of my Dovecote Crossing the Zbrucz A Letter My First Goose The Death of Dolgushov 14 Mar. BABEL The Catholic Church in Novograd Pan Apolek Gedali The Rebbe The Cemetery in Kozin The Rebbe's Son 16 Mar. ZAMYATIN, EVGENII (1884-1937) WE (1924) Ch. 1-13
Week 6	19 Mar. Ch. 14-27 21 Mar. Ch. 28-40 23 Mar. PILNYAK, BORIS (1894-1937?) x The Death of the Army Commander (1926)
	SPRING BREAK
Week 7	2 April OLESHA, YURY (1899-1960) ENVY (1927) Part I 4 April ENVY, Part II KATAEV, VALENTIN (1897-) x from TIME, FORWARD! (1932) ILF-PETROV x How the Soviet Robinson was Written (1933) 6 April BULGAKOV, MIKHAIL (1891-1940) THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Ch. 1-6  **FOLLOW ALONG ON THE MASTER & MARGARITA PAGES!**
Week 8	9 April Ch. 7-13 11 April Ch. 14-19 13 April Ch. 20-26
Week 9	16 April Ch. 26-Epilog **PAPER 2 DUE** 18 April LITERATURE OF THE GULAG SOLZHENITSYN, ALEKSANDR (1918-) GULAG ARCHIPELAGO 11, ch. 1, The Fingers of Aurora (1974, x) TSCHERNAVIN, VLADIMIR from I SPEAK FOR THE SILENT (1935, x) 20 April SHALAMOV, VARLAM (1907-82), KOLYMA TALES In the Night, Dry Rations Quiet, Major Pugachev's Last Battle On Tick, A Child's Drawings Lend-Lease, The Train
Week 10	23 April AKHMATOVA, ANNA (1888-1966), Requiem (1935-40, x) SOLZHENITSYN, Matryona's Home (1963, xerox) EVTUSHENKO, In Memory of Akhmatova - a poem (1966, xerox) 25 April NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (1899-1977) SPEAK, MEMORY (1966) Ch. 1-4 27 April Ch. 5-10
Week 11	30 April Ch. 11-15 2 May EROFEEV, VENIAMIN (1938-1991) MOSCOW TO THE END OF THE LINE (1969) Erofeev Pages by Julia Topalian, Midd '00 3 May FILM: Prisoner of the Mountains **8:00 in BIH 220** 4 May Tolstoy, Prisoner in the Caucasus and MAKANIN, VLADIMIR (b. 1937) PRISONER OF THE CAUCASUS (1995)
Week 12	7 May KHARITONOV, EVGENII (1941-81) selected stories On Evgenii Kharitonov 9 May TOLSTAYA, TATIANA stories from ON THE GOLDEN PORCH: Okkervil River Hunting the Wooly Mammoth Sonya The Fakir Peters 11 May CONCLUSIONS- FINAL PAPER DUE