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- Life Readers for 2019: Chekhov’s Plays
- Leah A’s Interpretation of «Вот какой рассеянный»
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- Nina Wilson Receives Scholarship to Study in Russia
- Elizabeth D. recites “Вот какой рассеянный” (Самуил Маршак)
- 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)
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- Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow
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- Newberry Adult Education Course for 2023 – Focus on Ukraine: Gogol’s Ukrainian Tales, Babel’s Odessa Stories, and Bulgakov’s White Guard
- Registration opens August 24, 2022 for Newberry Seminar From Russian Folk Epics and Holy Fools to Putin’s Propaganda
- Fall 2022 at the Newberry: From Russian Folk Epics and Holy Fools to Putin’s Propaganda
- Summer of 2022 at the Newberry – Mikhail Vrubel: Fusion of Art and Literature
- Teen Literature Course for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022: 19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations
- New and Unique Online Course for Fall of 2021 through Spring of 2022 – Russian History from Peter the Great to the 1910s: St. Petersburg’s Culture, Myth, and Everyday Life
- Stella S. creates animation for “Baggage” by Samuil Marshak
- Announcing Teen Online Course for 2020-2021: 19th Century Russian Short Fiction
- Life Readers Schedule for May and June, 2020
- Schedule Changes due to COVID-19 – Updated April 27, 2020
- Life Readers in 2020: Join us at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to read and discuss Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”
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