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This is an incredible video about one of my favorite Russian novelists. Thank you for putting this series of lectures together!

Beautiful commentary and information on great Russian writer and poet. Boris Pasternak

Hvala prijatelju

I was lucky enough to be one of Irwin Weil 's students at Northwestern University. Fine man.

Thank you for putting this out to people!!!!!

I am deeply in your debt Mr Weil, for the extensive amount of information you have shared. In a very minor way I'd like to suggest you could be improved -- Nicholas I was not arresting the Petrashevtsii because Nicholas was nervous about the Decembrists, who had revolted 23 years prior. Rather, the concern Nicholas had was the possibility of the spread of the revolutions spreading all across Europe would infect Russia in the year 1849, when he ordered the arrest of the Petrashevtsii.

The tangent into Balzac's novel Pere Goriot was irrelevant, and had no follow-up.

Another unaccountable error. Pskov is A LOT closer to St Petersburg than Moscow is. Moscow is three times farther from St Petersburg than is Pskov. Professor Weil says Pskov is farther than Moscow.

Very strange. Here is a confirmed scholar, with fascinating, detailed knowledge of a host of Russian historical figures, saying the Tsar Alexander I "abdicated," with the succession unclear. Tsar Alexander died. Either that, or he convinced his family and courtiers that he died, and then went to live as a hermit in Siberia. That has been for more than two centuries, an unconfirmed theory. But, he never abdicated.

too many ads, brother... 4 or 5 only in this part, that really pollutes the experience, please, give professor Irwin some credit here

Liszt: The first multicultural musician... his inquisitive mind traveled across borders, eliciting melodies from Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and more! This tender ballade offers another facet of the diamond gem called "Franz Liszt."

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I've been reading FMD and about FMD for 30 years, and I never knew 50% of this. I adore you enthusiasm!!! Thank you:)

An insightful analysis and description of "The Bronze Horseman."

Thank you for these stories and scholarship! Very engaging.

Great lecture

Such a beautiful piece of music!

Thank you for this

I hope you can post more videos on literature

In a comparative lit course in college the professor asked us to compare Gogol and Kafka. An English major chimed in “Gogol would be great fun at a party, and Kafka would not”. The nose is still a favorite after all these years.

Read Sketches from a Hunter's Album short stories recently and they are excellent. I will be reading his novels next.

Thank you so much for this. Wonderful lectures.👊

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he was a sneeky man

Sounds like emergence of Stalin but of course men listen to him

You have no idea how much I love you for posting that

Stalin was a complicated man, you said, and I agree. They were times where a series of unfathomable events took place. We do owe to Stalin however, his murderous back bone that was able to push treasonous Germany back out of Russia in 1942 and almost unbelievably, it was his Red Army that walked into the Fuhrer Bunker 1945 Try to weigh these factors and be utterly overcome with disbelief. and amazement at the sheer power of Stalin. PS Hitler was long gone to his hide out in Argentina. in 1945

Thank you so much for posting lectures of such a great interest and importance here ❤

Excellent

Excellent

My fav russian writer

Weil is a national treasure. Did he mention Bulgakov? If not, consider him mentioned.

I am so glad that I can get to listen to this top tier lecture on Russian literary giants free of cost!❤

Loved this series.. thank you so much for posting it!

Karenin is one of my favorite in this book. He has religiously inspired self deception that is such an incredible psychological observation.

Honestly fascinating how the Brooklyn Bridge was such an inspiration to some great poets amd drew them in, almost makes me wish he had met Hart Crane.