Khandoshkin's violin works get players ready for the greats SECULAR MUSIC CAME LATE TO RUSSIA. As far as most of us are concerned, it started with the operas of Glinka in the Romantic era, but Russian instrumental music was being produced a century...

Catriona Kelly. Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2001. xvii, 165 pp. Illustrations. Maps. $8.95, cloth. Catriona Kelly suggests her book is neither a canonical outline of the lives and creative legacies of Russian writers, nor a sketch of literary...

The New York Times may be the “paper of record,” the Los Angeles Times poppin’ with Pulitzers, but when it comes to newsroom hanky-panky, none can beat The Washington Post. Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee, sitting in a tree! Marie Arana and Jonathan Yardley, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!...

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a little relieved to be taking "The Lives of Others" outside Germany, where people responded emotionally and lavished the movie with seven Lolas (the country's equivalent of the Academy Awards).Now that it's arriving in the U.S., he's hopeful it will...

Women in the Commisar. A discussion of Russian literature.

This essay discusses the role of the horse as different metaphors in different works of Russian literature. Maintains that horses have a significant presence as far as the story line is concerned, due to the fact that most traveling is done with a horse or horses, horses are used for work, and, in Kasbich's case, they act as friends who will never share your secrets.