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19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations – Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2021 to 2022
New and Unique Course! 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
Past Classes for Teens
2020
Winter/Spring 2020: Tolstoy’s War and Peace
2018-2019
The Russian Revolution (1900 – 1940) through Literature and Film (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)
2016-2017
Russian Literature for Teens Fall 2017: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Chekhov’s Annas, and Anna Karenina in Film
Russian Literature for Teens Fall 2016 through Spring 2017: War and Peace, Oblomov, and Crime and Punishment
2015-2016
19th Century Russian Short Fiction – Two Semesters in 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
Fall 2013 – 19th Century Russian Short Fiction for teens
Winter/Spring 2014 – Tolstoy’s War and Peace
2014: Summer Workshop
Summer Workshops
2014: Summer Workshop: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
2015 Summer Workshop: 19th Century Russian Supernatural Stories
2015 Summer Workshop: Gogol’s The Government Inspector
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”
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Скороговорки и Чистоговорки
Russian Literature Club У лукоморья
У лукоморья
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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
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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”
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ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian
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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
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