- Home
- About
- Testimonials
- Life Readers
- Newberry Seminars
- Russian Culture Classes for Teens
- Current classes for Teens
- Upcoming Teen Classes
- Past Classes for Teens
- 2020
- 2018-2019
- 2016-2017
- 2015-2016
- 2014-2015
- Fall 2014: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1900 – 1920)
- Winter/Spring 2015: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1920 – 1940)
- 2015 Summer Workshop: 19th Century Russian Supernatural Stories
- 2015 Summer Workshop: Gogol’s The Government Inspector
- 2013-2014
- Summer Workshops
- Class Responses to 19th Century Russian Short Fiction
- Russian Language
- Russian Language Instruction
- Russian Language Lab – Student Projects
- Why Learn A Foreign Language?
- Illinois Olympiada
- 2013 ACTR Illinois/Indiana Regional Olympiada of Spoken Russian
- 2014 ACTR Illinois/Indiana Olympiada of Spoken Russian – Reeification Newsletter
- 2015 Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian
- 2016 Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian
- 2016 Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow
- Students Travel in Russia
- The Annotated Story: Narine Abgaryan’s “Manyunya Performs at an End-of-Year Recital, or an Original Cure for Fear of Heights”
- Поэзия
- Скороговорки и Чистоговорки
- Russian Literature Club У лукоморья
- У лукоморья
- Recent Posts
- Stella S. creates animation for “Baggage” by Samuil Marshak
- Newberry Seminar for Summer 2021 – The Fiction of Pushkin and Lermontov
- Newberry Seminar for Winter/Spring 2021 – Russian Avant-Garde and More: Art and Literature 1910-1932
- 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”
- Join Frank Biletz and Julia Denne at the Newberry for a Free Program on Tuesday, September 10, 2019
- 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)
- Morgan E’s interpretation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
- New Life Readers Series begins in January, 2018
- Amelia Parkes Interviewed for CEERES Newletter
- New Format: Synchronous and Asynchronous Classroom for Fall 2017 Russian Lit Online
- 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)
- Life Readers 2016-2017
- Russian Language Lab: Amelia Parkes recites Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”
- Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow
- Life Readers January through May 2016
- Catching up with Students
- 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
Search
-
Recent Posts
- 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
- Newberry Seminar for Summer 2021 – The Fiction of Pushkin and Lermontov
- Newberry Seminar for Winter/Spring 2021 – Russian Avant-Garde and More: Art and Literature 1910-1932
- Newberry online seminar for Fall 2020: “From Russian Realism to Symbolism: Painting and Literature (1860s – 1910s)”
- 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
- At the Newberry in 2020: Russian Realist Painting and Literature (1840s – 1890s)
- Life Readers in 2020: Join us at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to read and discuss Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”
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
Categories
Tags
19th century literature 19th century painting 20th Century Literature advanced Russian AHML Alexander Pushkin Amelia Parkes And Somtimes Y Anna Karenina annotated Russian Anton Chekhov Book Club books Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky Evgeny Petrov homeschool Ilya Ilf Ilya Repin Ivan Turgenev John Reed Leah A Lev Tolstoy Life Readers Manyunya Maxim Gorky Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Lermontov morgan-e Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Leskov Nina Wilson Oblomov Olympiada Peredvizhniki Russian film Russian folktales Russian Language Russian Literature Russian Realism Russian Revolution Sergei Eisenstein Stella S student project teen classes teen literature The Apples of Youth and The Water of Life winonamedia.net Yuri Olesha Сказка
