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RUSSIAN LITERATURE DURING THE PANDEMIC: an excerpt from READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 finalist Guzel Yakhina, ZULEIKHA, translated by Lisa C. Hayden, published here with the permission of Oneworld

Stage Russia is streaming select productions online during the pandemic – including Yury Butusov’s award-winning production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.”

RUSSIAN LITERATURE DURING THE PANDEMIC: an excerpt from READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 finalist Maxim Osipov, ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, and Anne Marie Jackson, published here with the permission of New York Review Books

Timofey Kulyabin, artistic director of the Red Torch Theatre in Novosibirsk, has reinvented this classic work as an epic parable about finding harmony through suffering. 

Adolf Shapiro’s classic interpretation, starring Russian icon Renata Litvinova, asks the question, where would the characters of this play live today – years after their cherry orchard has been cut down?

RUSSIAN LITERATURE DURING THE PANDEMIC: an excerpt from READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 finalist Alexander Griboedov, WOE FROM WIT, translated by Betsy Hulick, published here with the permission of Columbia University Press / Russian Library

Rimas Tuminas’s masterpiece unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin’s characters. The images are split between past and present, between reality and imagination. 

RUSSIAN LITERATURE DURING THE PANDEMIC: an excerpt from READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 finalist Vasily Grossman, STALINGRAD, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, published here with the permission of New York Review Books

Anzelica Cholina’s multiple award-winning production of Anna Karenina tells the story of Tolstoy’s classic novel entirely in contemporary dance.

Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’s astounding reimagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived.

In PUSHKIN IS OUR EVERYTHING, filmmaker Michael Beckelhimer goes on a journey through Russia to learn how Russia’s most famous 19th-century poet became contemporary Russia’s supreme national icon – and how his star rose higher and higher at every tumultuous point in Russian history.

Three Russian writers read their poetry and prose.

From our ongoing series featuring the sounds of Russian literature! Hear Russia!

Hear Lev Tolstoy speak about life, art, and morals in brief recordings made in 1908.

First in a series highlighting audio and the arts.