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This volume presents recent research into Dmitry Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) and work by leading scholars, and aims to place the composer in a variety of different contexts: musical, literary, and historical. The contributors are musicologists, Russian literature specialists, biographers, and cultural historians, and their diverse fields of expertise are reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of the materials collected here, contributin...

In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a privileged aristocratic family, he seemed set to join the ranks of degenerate Russian noblemen, but fighting in the Crimean war alongside rank and file soldiers opened his eyes to Russia's social p...

Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, yet the history of the reception of his works in Russia has remained largely unexplored. This book, which draws extensively on unpublished archival materials and other contemporary sources, aims to show that in certain important respects, Wagner's music and ideas found more fertile ground in Russia than anywhere else in Europe. Beginning with the fir...

This book explores the influence of the composer Richard Wagner on Russian writers, musicians and artists.

A cogent and insightful new biography of one of the great Russian writers.

Publicada en su versión original inglesa en 2004 para conmemorar el centenario de la muerte de Antón Chéjov, esta nueva y extraordinaria biografía enriquece ahora el panorama editorial español como la única y más completa disponible en castellano del escritor ruso.Chéjov, escenas de una vida ofrece un cuadro enormemente convincente no solo del hombre, sino también de los lugares en los que éste vivió y trabajó. Las descripciones de la región d...

The futurist opera "Victory Over the Sun"--written by Aleksei Kruchenykh and first performed in St. Petersburg in December 1913--was central to the Russian avant-garde, important for its libretto, its fragmentary, modernistic score, and its innovative sets and costumes. This book features an excellent translation of the text, accompanied by a number of essays from international contributors such as Laurence Senelick and John E. Bowlt that offe...