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Author:   Dmitry S. Likhachev ,  LOGOS Publishing House ,  Bernard Adams
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9789639116467

ISBN 10:   9639116467
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   01 June 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The Last of the Russian Intelligentsia (Miklós Kun) Foreword to the Russian Edition Foreword to the English Edition The House of Likhachev The Children of M.M. Likhachev My Childhood The Disappearance of Katerinushka The Petersburg of my Childhood Kuokkala The Crimea A Volga Cruise, 1914 The Philanthropic Society Grammar School K.I. May's Grammar School and Modern School The Revolution--Outward Impressions Life in No.1 State Printing-house Taytsy, Olgino, Toksovo The Lentovskaya School Leonid Vladimirovich Georg The University The Red Terror The Making of a Philosophy S.A. Alekseyev-Askoldov Khelfernak The Brotherhood of St Serafim of Sarov The Cosmic Academy of Sciences Arrest and Imprisonment Kem Transfer Point and the Crossing to Solovki Island The Camp Topography of Solovki The Scenery of Solovki Krimkab The Diagonal of a Child's Blanket The Visit by Maksim Gorki and the Mass Executions of 1929 The Solovki Museum The Solovki Theatre Solovki People A Few Fragments Leaving Solovki Zvanka and Tikhvin. Release The Fate of My Friends after Solovki The Repression of the '30s The Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Attempts at Writing My Conviction Quashed I Fail the Exams I Leave the Academy of Sciences Press Novgorod The Blockade Two Letters about the Blockade of Leningrad Prorabotki A Trip to Solovki in 1996 My last time on Solovki

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Protector of Russia's Heritage. Dmitri S. Likhachev, a Russian literary scholar revered as a guardian of national culture and a voice of reason and moral authority died today in hospital in St PetersburgDuring the past decade of turbulent change in Russia, Mr Likhachev, a gentle elegant man who spoke with the measured eloquence of the pre-Bolshevik intelligentsia, was frequently sought out by politicians and commentators as a referee in the churning debate over history--The New York Times Obituaries

"""Protector of Russia's Heritage. Dmitri S. Likhachev, a Russian literary scholar revered as a guardian of national culture and a voice of reason and moral authority died today in hospital in St PetersburgDuring the past decade of turbulent change in Russia, Mr Likhachev, a gentle elegant man who spoke with the measured eloquence of the pre-Bolshevik intelligentsia, was frequently sought out by politicians and commentators as a referee in the churning debate over history""--The New York Times Obituaries"

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Dmitry S. Likhachev was one of Russia’s most famous literary historians and cultural commentators. In the late 1980’s Mikhail Gorbachev enlisted him as Chairman of the Soviet Cultural Fund. In 1998 he was the first person since 1917 to be presented with the order of St. Andrew. He was made corresponding member of the Austrian, American, British and Italian academies of arts and sciences.

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