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Forthwith, a fairly random collection of things having to
do with Russia:
Some less personal links:
- Russia
Today - a source for news, current events, etc.
- Bob Atchison's Alexander Palace Time
Machine
- Similarly, his new page for nearby Pavlovsk
Palace
- Atchison's reprint of a 1910 Guidebook to
Tsarskoe Selo, home of the tsars (and the Alexander Palace, as
well as the bigger and more well-known Catherine Palace)
- Finally, his general page for Palaces of
St. Petersburg
- Speaking of moving from the specific to the general, this is an
impressive site specializing in Russian History on the
Web
- The Friends
and Partners (a worthy organization) Russian
History Page - also very good, and hey, they put me on there!
- Greg
Ofman's personal tribute to St. Petersburg. The graphics are a bit
busy, but the guy's heart is clearly in the right place, and he has
many many great pics of my favorite city, not to mention that damn
music in the background all the time. Also, quite a lot of good
links.
- The official Mariinsky
Theater home page (formerly the Kirov, home of the famous Kirov
ballet company).
- Official site for the Hermitage Museum, one of
the world's largest collections of art, and probably the hardest to
get to for us non-Russians, but it's worth it, believe me! And if you
don't believe me, ask Fred
Camper.
- The Russian Museum of
St. Petersburg, home of - naturally - Russian art. For some reason,
painting is one of the few arts that didn't really reach world class
levels (IMHO) until the 20th Century, which is out of the range of my
main interests. But this is a worthy museum nonetheless. It recently
underwent a major overhaul, and looks positively Western (it even has
nice bathrooms - is anyone at the
Hermitage listening??)
- Learn more about Anna Akhmatova,
in English or
in Russian. Or even Dutch.
- Or Vladimir
Nabokov, in English and
a very fine site in Russian
- And of course we can't neglect old Aleksandr Sergeevich - Pushkin,
that is. Web sites on the master abound, of course. There's a very pretty site
full of his sketches that's pretty comprehensive, as well as a
collection of his poems in translation (not at all the same, but
what are you going to do?)
- Somewhat surprisingly (since, for example, there isn't a thing
out there on Yevgeny Yevtushenko or Andrei Sinyavsky), there are three
pages devoted to Mikhail Lermontov: a
collection of his poetry in translation, a biography
page with selected works, and one specializing on his life in
Petersburg.
- There's also of course a fine site devoted to Fedor Dostoevsky.
- As for old Lev
Tolstoy, there's a weird account of his final days, as well
as full online texts of Anna
Karenina, War and
Peace, and some lesser known
works.
- The St. Petersburg Times -
an English-language expat paper based in St. Petersburg (in the trivia
category, I once wrote a few rather lame
articles for their unfortunately rather lame rival, the Neva
News)
- The Moscow Times
- RussNet - a
general resource for Things Russian on the web.
- The Russian Internet Job
Agency
- Anekdoty on the web!
- And some Russian
Stories, too, in Russian of course.
- For the academics in the audience: Slavic Review and the AAASS home page (that's
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, to you
civilians)
- Columbia's list of Eastern
European Studies Pages at other institutions
- Russophilia
- a fun site based in South Australia.
- An online
Russian-English, English-Russian Dictionary, of all things.
- Similarly, an online
Russian Reference Grammar
- AGAMA, a search tool in
Russian
- Central
and East European Language resource
- The
Imperial Russian Journal, a publication of the Imperial
Russian Historical Society, and published by Pavlovsk
Press, who are supposedly also publishing my BA in a forthcoming volume of Romanov
Relations.