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The Choice of a Tutor by Denis Fonvizin

Literature
At the end of October 1915, in the British literary magazine The New Age, Carl Erich Bechhöfer continued with his regular column 'Letters from Russia', which he had been contributing from the turn of the year. His subject this time was Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1745-1792), the Russian playwright, whose name Bechhöfer renders as 'von Vizin', which had been the typical spelling...

On the Fugitive and French and Russian Poetry

Literature
When we hear or read the word 'fugitive' today, we perhaps tend to think of someone fleeing from something: most often in a legal frame, from justice; but also potentially from persecution, or simply from the uncomfortable circumstances of their lives. Supporting the first relation is the FBI's list of the 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives'. This was conceived by J. Edgar...

Podcast: ‘Silentium!’ by Fyodor Tyutchev

Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL6Mgl94pnI This is the first in a new series of videos/podcasts drawing upon what I have written and published here at Culturedallroundman.com. The podcast returns to the very first piece I published back on my old Wordpress.com site, on Fyodor Tyutchev's 1830 poem 'Silentium!'. I expand upon Tyutchev's life, before reading his poem in Vladimir Nabokov's translation, published with New...