Once Upon a Time, There Was Russian Literature. From Ancient Russia to the 20th Century

A captivating story about Russian literature that spans several eras can be fascinating! Irina Lukyanova, a prose writer, poet, philologist, and author of biographies in the series Lives of Remarkable People, invites you on an engaging journey through Russian literature from Ancient Russia to the 20th century. With love for history and word, the author tells about not only the well-known classics, which are annually repeated behind school desks as part of the unchanged curriculum, but also about works and writers that have remained outside the textbook fields.