Russia’s Golden Age – 19th Century Art, Literature, and Music in Moscow and St. Petersburg

Destination:  Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia Dates: April 2 – 13, 2014 (11 nights)

For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Description/Itinerary: Classical Pursuits returns to Russia, this time focusing on the Golden Age of Russian culture: 1850-1910. Russian realism blossomed with the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Chekhov’s and Stanislavsky’s drama, and with the music of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. Less known in the West are the equally extraordinary paintings of Repin, Levitan, Kramskoy, ...