by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Roger Cockrell (University of Exeter) In Chapter 13 of Что такое искусство? (1897) Tolstoi, by now fully engaged in a sustained process of demolition that has reduced the greater part of the Western world’s artistic and cultural heritage to ruins, turns his attention...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | German Culture, German updates, German Zone
Colleen Marshman, News and Notes Editor I would very much welcome articles for inclusion in News and Notes. Please contact me via email: [email protected], or write to me at the address given on the contents page. JUDITH KERR PRIMARY SCHOOL In September the...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Practice, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Elena Bolton (Solihull) INTRODUCTION When I decided to try my hand at teaching Russian I thought I was well prepared for the task. After all, I had experience of teaching English in Russia. I had also spent several years working as a technical translator, a job which...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Joel Roberts (University of Brighton) INTRODUCTION Peter the Great’s establishment of Saint Petersburg as a ‘window on the West’ opened Russia to a host of European influences. As a city built on Finnish marshland, a celebration of European culture and an ostensible...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | German Culture, German Practice, German updates, German Zone
Paul Francis Barrie (VKV Koç Özel İlköğretim Okulu ve Lisesi, İstanbul) GERMAN, GERMANY AND TURKEY Germany and Turkey have a long and intertwined history, which is just as relevant today as it was in the 1960s, during the Ottoman Empire and before. This relationship...
