Reflections on Russia

ISBN-13: 9780367300814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 191 str.

Dmitrii S. Likhachev

Opis

This is the only available English translation of Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev’s Zametki o russkom, a collection of notes on nature as an essential component of the character and culture of a nation. In the Zametki, Likhachev offers his own definitions of national character and of patriotism.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Reflections on Russia -- On National Feeling1 -- The Baptism of Rus’ and the State of Rus’1 -- The Experience of a Thousand Years: A Preliminary Assessment1 -- Pangs of Conscience1 -- Memory Overcomes Time1 -- Russia1

O autorze

Dmitrii S. Likhachev is a philologist and a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.