Russia: the people and the land. Linguistic evolution. Kievan Rus' to the Mongol invasion. The rise of Muscovy. New literary trends in 16th and 17th centuries. Peter the Great. 18th century: Lomonosov, Derzhavin and the others. The poetry in 19th cntury: Pushkin, Lermontov. The golden age: Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Turgenev. The silver age between Decadent movement, symbolism etc. Revolution and afterwards: Soviet literature to the end of the regime and nowadays.
More in depth: Unnecessary men: the crisis of the Russian man around the middle of the 19th century.
Students which cannot attend the courses, as well as Erasmus students and those which are not fluent in Italian, are kindly requested to contact the teacher for more information and a personal programmme of readings. Please also refer to the section "International" in Moodle.

Students which cannot attend the courses, as well as Erasmus students and those which are not fluent in Italian, are kindly requested to contact the teacher for more information and a personal programmme of readings.
Please refer also to the section "International" in Moodle.