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The walls help

Duration: 0:31:42

A house in Russian literature is not just a dwelling: it is a place where you feel good, where you want to return, but most often this place turns out to be an unattainable dream . What kind of house did Russian writers — and the heroes of their books — dream about? In what did they see the ideal of home comfort - and which houses seemed unbearable to them?

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian studiesRussian LiteratureOblomovRussian writers

Lawless Heart

Duration: 0:50:19

Great Russian literature is not only big names and textbooks, an important part of it stands in the back rows . The editors of "Shelf" decided to tell about their favorite writers of the second row - maybe you will love them too . Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin are the editors of the shelf .

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian studiesRussian Literature

Russia is the birthplace of Godzilla

Duration: 0:38:06

The editors of "Shelf" Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin discuss what Russian literary megalomania is . How are texts of large volume and ambitions of a planetary scale connected? How did literature, trying to explain the world, come to the need to change it?

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian studiesRussian LiteratureLev Tolstoy

"Ballet Composers". Adolphe Charles Adam

Duration: 0:27:10

The episode is about ballet composers of the 19th century and their music. The host discusses how ballet music is easy to dance to and is often called exemplary or standard. The episode mentions famous ballet composers like Adolphe Adam, Ludwig Minkus, and Cesare Pugni and their prolific works that span over 50 ballets. The host also mentions how ballet music was once criticized for being too simplistic and lightweight but was later appreciated for its melodic, rhythmic, and colorful qualities. The episode ends by stating that ballet music is perfect for dancing and is a great form of art.

Language: Russian
Topics: MusicRussian composers

Anatomy of Love: Attachment

Duration: 0:41:14

The editors of "Shelf" decided to discuss how Russian literature speaks of love, and use the ancient classification for this: storge, eros, philia, agape . In this issue we are talking about storga, family love: why do many childhood memories leave a bright impression, despite the difficult details .

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian LiteratureLoveGreeks

"Ballet Composers". Ludwig Minku

Duration: 0:29:23

The radio show "Orpheus" featured a program by author Evgenia about ballet composers of the 19th century, specifically Ludwig Minkus. Minkus, like Adolphe Adam, was criticized for his music being lightweight or too frivolous, though some recognized the grace and appeal of his melodies. Minkus was born in Vienna in 1826 and grew up surrounded by music, as his father was a restaurateur with a small orchestra that played popular tunes. Minkus showed prodigious talent from an early age, playing the violin and composing music. At age 12, he performed for the Zephirine Society of Friends of Music, and by his teenage years, he was already creating music for ballets.

Language: Russian
Topics: MusicArtBalletRussian composers

We will remember it

Duration: 0:45:45

"Shelf" discusses the work of literary memory: how the authors of memoirs preserve the details of literary life and what it means to "lie like an eyewitness" in relation to texts about Akhmatova and Mandelstam, Mayakovsky and Yesenin . How do some memoirists create myths about great writers, while others debunk these myths?

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteratureRussian LiteratureRussian writersMandelstamAkhmatovaMayakovsky

Children's reading of a healthy person

Duration: 0:41:17

The editors of "Shelf" discuss their personal stories and rationalization proposals . Is it possible to read The Wizard of Oz and Hesse at the same time? Should books that are too old be removed from children? How to shovel the school curriculum in literature and add "Harry Potter" there?

Language: Russian
Topics: EducationLiteratureRussian Life

Gogol and emptiness

Duration: 0:28:52

The editors of Polkka are sorting it out 210 years since the birth of the great author . Gogol's works have been perceived over the past 150 years in completely different ways.

Language: Russian
Topics: Soviet eraGogolRussian LiteratureLenin

Book results of the decade

Duration: 0:44:40

A year passes, and, according to the impatient world, a decade passes . What trends appeared in the literature, what did it manage to explain to us about the world and about itself? The editors of Shelf, helping themselves with strong drinks (New Year!), remember the most important thing - in prose, poetry, theater, non-fiction .

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteraturePushkinRussian Literature
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