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  • Register here for Tolstoy’s War and Peace for teens – Winter/Spring 2020
  • Life Readers in 2020: Join us at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to read and discuss Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”
  • Join Frank Biletz and Julia Denne at the Newberry for a Free Program on Tuesday, September 10, 2019
  • Looking Forward to Fall at the Newberry: The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf as a Panorama of Soviet Life in the 1920s
  • Coming Soon: Tolstoy’s War and Peace for teens – Winter/Spring 2020
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  • Life Readers for 2019: Chekhov’s Plays
  • Leah A’s Interpretation of «Вот какой рассеянный»
  • Jonah B’s presentation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
  • Students’ Interpretations of «Вот какой рассеянный»
  • Leah A’s presentation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
  • Online class for teens starting in September, 2018: The Russian Revolution (1900 – 1940) through Literature and Film
  • Morgan E’s interpretation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
  • New Life Readers Series begins in January, 2018
  • New Format: Synchronous and Asynchronous Classroom for Fall 2017 Russian Lit Online
  • Amelia Parkes Interviewed for CEERES Newletter
  • Nina Wilson Receives Scholarship to Study in Russia
  • Fall 2017 Russian Literature for Teens: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Chekhov’s Annas, and Anna Karenina in Film
  • Elizabeth D. recites “Вот какой рассеянный” (Самуил Маршак)
  • The Annotated Story: Narine Abgaryan’s “Manyunya Performs at an End-of-Year Recital, or an Original Cure for Fear of Heights”
  • Russian Language Lab Senior Projects – Celia M. Interviews a Native Russian Speaker and Amelia Parkes’ translates THE APPLES OF YOUTH AND THE WATER OF LIFE: A RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE (adapted by Aleksey Tolstoy)
  • Life Readers 2016-2017
  • Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow
  • Olympiada 2016
  • Russian Language Lab: Amelia Parkes recites Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”
  • Life Readers January through May 2016
  • Catching up with Students
  • Olympiada 2015
  • Interview by Leslie Schultz and Ten Great Works of Russian Literature to Round Out Your Reading List
  • Life Readers group featured in Chicago Tribune’s “Printers Row” journal

• Links

  • About Tatiana Kozmina's art
  • ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian
  • And Sometimes Y
  • Arlington Heights Memorial Library
  • Bulgakov’s "The Master and Margarita" #1
  • Bulgakov’s "The Master and Margarita" #2
  • iLearnRussian.com
  • Know your onions – The Phrase Finder
  • Know your onions – World Wide Words
  • Krylov's fable "The Quartet"
  • Lizok's Bookshelf
  • Soviet Communal Apartments
  • The Newberry
  • The poem "Onion Garden" by Leslie Schultz
  • The University of Chicago's web exhibit on Soviet children’s books
  • Tolstoy Studies Journal
  • Winona Media

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