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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

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