Reading Schedule: Weeks 1-5
Russian 3304

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Week One

Russia's Geography/Language (Jan. 10)

Kievan Russia/The Orthodox Church (Jan. 12)

• "The Igor Tale"  I would prefer for you to read this Internet version, but you may read the version in your packet called "The Word of Igor's Armament" (pages 10-18).
• "The Pouchenie of Vladimir Monomakh" (c.1100)  In the packet (Called "His Instruction to his Children" on pages 2-4) or on the Internet.

Week Two

Jan. 15 is Martin Luther King Day.

Orthodoxy (Jan. 17)

• "Ilarion's Sermon on Law and Grace" page 1 of the course materials (1050?)  or on the Internet.
• "Russia's Conversion to Christianity."  In the packet (Called "The Baptism of Vladimir and of All Russia" on pages 6-9) or on the Internet.

Icons (Jan. 19)

Week Three

The Mongols and the Emergence of Moscow (Jan. 22)

• "The Life of Sergius of Radonezh"  The packet (19-32) contains a copy that is difficult to read.   Use the Internet version.

Muscovite Russia (Jan. 24)

• "Letter to Ivan the Terrible" 33-34 in the course materials.
• "Letter to Prince Kurbski" 34-36 in the course materials.
• "The Domostroy" 37-38 in the course materials.
• "Orison on the Life and Death of Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich" 44-48 in the course materials.
• "The White Cowl" 48-53 in the course materials immediately.

Muscovite Art, Architecture, and Culture (Jan. 26)

• "Ilya of Murom and Nightingale the Robber"  39-43 in the course materials. 
• "Shemiaka's Judgment" 54-56 in the course materials.

Week Four

Novgorod and Pskov (Jan. 29)

• "Sadko" 64-71 in the course materials.

Time of Troubles/Schism in the Russian Orthodox Church  (Jan. 31) 

• Excerpts from Avvakum's autobiography 72-78 in the course materials.

Peter the Great (Feb. 2) 

Week Five

St. Petersburg/East meets West (Feb. 5) 

The Russian "Enlightenment" of the 1700s. (Feb. 7)   

• Lomonosov's "Meditations" 79-80 in the course materials.
• Act I of Fonvizin's "The Minor" 81-85 in the course materials.
• Derzhavin's "Ode to the Deity" 86 in the course materials.
• Excerpt from Radishchev's "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow" 87-91 in the course materials.
• Karamzin's "Poor Liza." 92-99 in the course materials.

Catherine the Great (Feb. 9)  

First Midterm (Feb. 14) Note the change!

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