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

Amanda January 21, 2014

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

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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...

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Tags: Anna Karenina, Classical Pursuits, Leo Tolstoy, Moscow Travel, Russia Travel, Russian Literature, St. Petersburg

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