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Learning Russian

Russian can be learnt from books, tapes, courses and CDs, available at unforgettable russian, rosetta stone, learning Russian, abroad languages, multilingual books and linguaphone. BabaVera has audio books in Russian on CD.

Free lessons and material are at master Russian, Russian resources, word2word, 43things and enchanted learning.

Other works, dictionaries, etc. can be ordered through russkiekniegi, znanie, kamkin, abebooks and alibris.

Russian-English-Russian online dictionaries are at word2word, berkely, yourdictionary, paulgor, freedict, babelfish, systran , bab-la and 1-800 translate.

Machine translation can be helpful, though you will need some grammar to correct the rendering: omnilang, free translation, prompt online, babelfish, worldlingo and prompt.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Russian Poetry

Bibliographies can be found in the Russian Poetry section of the The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993) and the Cambridge History of Russian Literature (1989). Good introductions include R. Lord's Russian and Soviet Literature: An Introduction (1972),V. Nabokov's Lectures on Russian Literature (1981), V. Terras's A History of Russian Literature (1994), and C. Kelly's Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2001).

For those short of time there are keyboard emulators, phonetic tables, browser plug-ins and parallel texts (e.g. S. Burnshaw's The Poem Itself, 1960) and decent translations at friends & partners, zeroland, soviet literature, 1911, lingshidao, kulichki, poem hunter, russian legacy russian poetry yevgeny bonver, speaking in tongues, mavicanet, kline and virtualave.

Unbegaun has a useful guide to Russian versification.

Sites for individual writers are: Gógol, Bély, Blok, Mandelstám, Akhmátova, Pasternák, Solzhenítsyn, Yevtushenko, Kuzmin, Gumilëv, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Khlebnikov, Majakovstij, Nikolaj Kljuev, Esenin and Boris Pasternak.

Pushkin

Several translations of Eugene Onegin can be read/compared at hofstadter, johnson, litoshik and ledger. There are many biographies of Alexander Pushkin, mostly in Russian, but try H. Troyat's Pushkin (1970) or E. Feinstein's Pushkin: a Biography (1999).

Blok

Information on Alexander Block can be found at antenati, encyclopedia of soviet writers and Russian cultural navigator.

 

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