GDHC1283

Course Descriptions

This multimedia course covers the role of Russian women artists as cultural creators and witnesses from the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to President Vladimir Putin’s fourth presidential term. We shall look at the tragedies of twentieth century Russian history as reflected in the verse of Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova, the country’s two most important female poets, and their celebration of its two historical capitals, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, which were also depicted by the memoirists Irina Odoevtseva and Nina Berberova. The course will explore the way in which peasant women and girls are portrayed in the paintings of Zinaida Serebriakova, an important representative of early Russian modernism, and the stories of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We shall also examine the representation of the female experience and its associated traumas and hopes in the literature, music, and film of the post-communist transition. Finally, the course will include portraits of a selection of today’s female celebrities who have impacted the nation’s culture.

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