What Every Russian Knows (and You Don't)
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This book is a collection of 12 essays looking at touchstones of Russian popular culture, mostly from the Soviet period, that continue to resonate through language, images, and ways of seeing the world in Russia today. These include films: The Irony of Fate, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, White Sun of the Desert, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; a novel: The Twelve Chairs; animated cartoons: Hedgehog in the Mist and The Prostokvashino Three; the writer Mikhail Bulgakov; the singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky; stand-up comedians Mikhail Zhvanestky and Mikhail Zadornov; and a character from a fairy tale, Yemelya the Simpleton. The subjects of the chapters were selected for their influence on Russian language and thinking, and also because they reflect Russian attitudes and perceptions. The author brings them to life through her own experiences of and responses to these modern icons
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Olga Fedina
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Tahmini Okuma Süresi: 3 sa. 44 dk.Sayfa Sayısı: 132Basım Tarihi: 16 Mayıs 2013Yayınevi: Anaconda EditionsISBN: 9781901990126Dil: İngilizceFormat: Karton kapak
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Olga Fedina grew up in Moscow in the turbulent late-Soviet and immediately post-Soviet years. Having learnt English listening to the songs of The Beatles and The Doors and while still a student at the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University, she started working for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. Those were the early 1990s, the golden years of journalism in Russia, when the freedom of the press was extraordinary and exhilarating. The desire to get to know the world subsequently brought her to London, where she then lived for a decade, teaching Russian and doing translations and research for books on Russia.
Having done a 180 degree turn in her career and wishing to pursue her long-standing interest in Oriental methods of health preservation, she requalified as an acupuncturist and together with her husband moved to Valencia, Spain. She now has a busy acupuncture clinic in this charming Mediterranean city.
Olga sometimes misses her homeland, and this book expresses some of the unique aspects of Russia and the Russians that she always carries with her.
