poets, russian

Chronicles the life of Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, discussing his childhood in Moscow, expulsion from St. Petersburg, seven-year exile, marriage, and writings.

Profiles Russian poets, discussing literary forms, achievements, biography, general analysis, and related information.

An account of a Soviet poet's four years spent in a labor camp.

Recalling her years on Oleron, an island that was part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall fortifications, Carlisle describes the Occupation from its early days to the harsh later stages of food shortages and forced labor.

Contains translations of selected portions of conversations with Nobel prize-winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, taped between 1978 and 1993, in which he discusses poetry, his life and travels, his friends and influences, his arrests, detentions, and ultimate expulsion from the Soviet Union, and other matters.

A biography of the first Russian writer to write in the Russian language, a poet who was often called the "Father of Russian Literature.".