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The bare events of Dostoevsky s life his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts go far to account for his strange intensity of vision. This biography, first published in 1931, traces his wayward development, from his strict and secluded childhood to his debut as literary pimple, through his years of anguish, to his maturity as artist and final apotheosis as Russian patriot.

Written some fifty years after Dostoevsky s death, when the material necessary for a full study first became available,...

The two note-books of the diary of Mme. Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her lengthy Reminiscences, unfinished at the time of her death, all in her own hand-writing, and copies of her husband s letters to her from 1866 to 1881, were found in August 1922.

The "Diary" is a large volume of about 400 pages, published in the original Russian by the Central Archives in 1923. Both note-books relate to the time when the Dostoevskys were living abroad in Berlin, Dresden and Baden whilst the Reminiscences was intended as a complete character portrait.

This volume, first published in 1923,...

Tolstoy s fame as one of the world s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views on the social, moral and religious issues of his time is not so widely recognised. This study, first published in 1973, presents an introduction to the historical and cultural background of Tolstoy s lifetime, then going on to consider the major events of his developing personality as a writer and reformer.

As well as considering the famous novels and literary criticism, Simmons treats his educational theories and practice, famine relief work, spiritual crises and religious,...

Der zweite Band der Wiener Konferenz (2013) anlasslich des 90. Geburtstages von Nikita Il ic Tolstoj ( 1996) zur traditionellen Volkskultur und zur Sprachgeschichte der Slavia Orthodoxa, den beiden Hauptstrangen der Forschungsarbeit des bedeutenden Moskauer Philologen, enthalt die sprachgeschichtlichen Beitrage seiner Kollegen, Mitarbeiter und Schuler. Die versammelten Beitrage dieses Bandes sind in slavischen Sprachen verfasst.

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Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (German) language of the new environment. This process is influenced by their native language. The volume empirically analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to that of a non- or distantly related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment situation of diglossia in the Czech Republic, diaglossia in Germany influences this acquisition. It additionally examines the impact of several sociolinguistic...