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Publisher: London: Edward Arnold Publication date: 1917 Subjects: Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich), 1791-1859 Authors, Russian -- 19th century Education -- Soviet Union Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.Tags
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Transports you back to 1799 Russia; in a vivid and simply written narrative, Aksakov recalls being sent away from his beloved family home to a distant boarding school. A harsh awakening, hysterical (?) episodes, his devoted mother travels to fetch him home...and a scarcely credible scene (to the 21st century reader) of having to get the school governor's permission before she can remove him in an almost law court type of hearing!
After a year at home - Aksakov recalls the scenery and the field sports - he returns to school and makes a better show of it this time round, shining at literature, and becoming massively interested in the theatre.
Very well written.
After a year at home - Aksakov recalls the scenery and the field sports - he returns to school and makes a better show of it this time round, shining at literature, and becoming massively interested in the theatre.
Very well written.
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A close friend of Nikolai Gogol, Aksakov came from the old landholding nobility. His family background became the subject for a series of reminiscences written late in life. Their objective and precise description of the often brutal provincial existence, their insight and honesty about human psychology, as well as their eventful narratives have show more made them enduring classics of nineteenth-century prose. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Russian Schoolboy
- Original title
- Воспоминания; Vospominaniya
- Original publication date
- 1856; 1917 (English translation) (English translation)
- Important places
- Russia
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- To P.W.D. and M.G.D.
- First words
- Aksakov, who was born in 1791, is one of the earliest of the great Russian writers, older than Pushkin, and already a mature man of thirty when Tolstoy was born.
(Introduction).
In the middle of winter in the year 1799, when I was eight years old, we travelled to Kazan, the chief town of the Province. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was the first time I had really seen and really felt that season; and the effect was to banish from my head for a time all thoughts either of the war with Napoleon or of the University and the companions I had left there.
- Original language
- Russian
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- Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 891.733 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917
- LCC
- PG3321 .A5 .Z513 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870
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