Course code

SKS6212.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

19. sajandi vene kirjandus

Course title in English

19th Century Russian Literature

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2026/2027 Autumn semester

Grigori Utgof (language of instruction: Russian)

lecturer of 2026/2027 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Brief description of the course

Literary movements of the early 19th century. Romanticism in Russian literature. Vasily Zhukovsky. The Arzamas Literary Society. Alexander Griboyedov. Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin’s poetry (lyric and narrative poems), drama (“Boris Godunov,” “Little Tragedies”) and his novel in verse “Eugene Onegin.” Pushkin’s prose (“Belkin’s Tales,” “The Queen of Spades”, “The Captain’s Daughter”, etc.). Mikhail Lermontov’s poetry (lyric and narrative poems) and his novel “A Hero of Our Time.” Nikolai Gogol (“Mirgorod,” “Petersburg Tales,” “The Inspector General,” “Dead Souls”, etc.). The Naturalist School. Critical traditions (Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolai Chernyshevsky et al.). Ivan Goncharov. Literary journals of the 1860s. Ivan Turgenev (“Letters of a Hunter,” “Fathers and Sons”, etc.). The poetry of Nikolai Nekrasov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Afanasy Fet, and Alexei Tolstoy. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (“The History of a Town”, etc.). Fyodor Dostoevsky (“Crime and Punishment,” “The Idiot,” “Demons,” “The Brothers Karamazov,” etc.). Leo Tolstoy (“Childhood”, “War and Peace,” “Anna Karenina,” etc.). Nikolai Leskov (“Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”, etc.). Anton Chekhov’s short stories. Literature as a social institution: journals, publishing houses, and literary awards after 1861.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- understands the main development trends of the literary process and the works of the major representatives of the era;
- analyzes the development of literature and the principles of the formation of literature as a system;
- distinguishes the historical context of literary works and its influence on their content;
- supports literary analysis with relevant historical and literary examples.

Teacher

Grigori Utgof

The course is a prerequisite

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