Online Classes

Russian Culture Courses for Teens
Designed for teens who love literature, history, and the arts, my online classes introduce students to Russia’s great and varied history, artistic and literary masterpieces, and cultural, artistic, and political movements. Classes will meet weekly and last for an hour and a half. Our class format will usually consist of a 20 to 30 minute lecture, student presentations, and group discussion. In addition to weekly reading, short writing assignments about each week’s reading and a final paper will be required. The combination of lecture, presentations, discussion, and writing is designed to prepare teens for the college environment.

Tolstoy’s Study

Upcoming Courses

19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations – Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2021 to 2022

Russian History from Peter the Great to the 1910s: St. Petersburg’s Culture, Myth, and Everyday Life – Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2021 to 2022

 
Current Courses

19th Century Russian Short Fiction – Two semesters: Fall 2020 and Winter/Spring 2021

 
Past Courses

Winter/Spring 2020 (one semester): Russian Literature for Teens – Tolstoy’s War and Peace

Fall 2018 through Spring 2019: Russian Literature for Teens – The Russian Revolution

Russian Literature for Teens – Fall 2017 (one semester): Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Chekhov’s Annas, and Anna Karenina in Film

Fall 2016 through Spring 2017: Russian Literature for Teens – War and Peace, Oblomov, and Crime and Punishment

19th Century Russian Short Fiction for Teens, Two semesters – Fall 2015: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, and Leskov; and Winter/Spring 2016: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Summer Workshop – 2015: The Government Inspector

Summer Workshop – 2015: 19th Century Russian Supernatural Stories

Winter/Spring 2015: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1920-1940)

Fall 2014: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1900-1920)

Summer Workshop 2014: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground

Winter/Spring 2014: Tolstoy’s War and Peace

2013: 19th Century Russian Short Fiction