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Humiliated And Insulted
''Humiliated and Insulted'' (russian: Униженные и оскорблённые, ''Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye'') — also known in English as ''The Insulted and Humiliated'', ''The Insulted and the Injured'' or ''Injury and Insult'' — is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine ''Vremya (magazine), Vremya''. Plot introduction Narrated by a young novelist, Vanya (Ivan Petrovich), who has just released his first novel which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoevsky's own first novel, ''Poor Folk'', it consists of two gradually converging plot lines. One deals with Vanya's close friend and former love object, Natasha, who has left her family to live with her new lover, Alyosha. Alyosha is the saintly but dim-witted son of Prince Valkovsky, who hopes to gain financially by marrying Alyosha off to an heiress, Katya. Valkovsky's cruel machinations to break up Alyosha and Natasha identify him as one of the most memorable "predatory types" tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignat Avsey
Ignat (russian: Игнат) is a Slavic given name that corresponds to the given name Ignatius. Notable persons with that name include: * Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963), Romanian painter * Ignat Dameika (1802–1889), Belarusian geologist, mineralogist and educator * Ignat Damyanov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer * Ignat Dishliev (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer * Ignat Herrmann (1854–1935), Czech novelist, satirist and editor *Ignat Kaneff (1926–2020), Bulgarian-born Canadian business magnate and philanthropist * Ignat Kovalev ( 1990s), Russian sprint canoeist * Ignat Malei (born 1992) Belarusian track cyclist *Ignat Nekrasov, leader of the Nekrasov Cossacks who fled to the Kuban in September 1708 * Ignat Pakhotin, actor playing Boris Bannon in ''My Spy Family'', a live action family comedy series *Ignat Solzhenitsyn (born 1972), Russian-American conductor and pianist *Ignat Zemchenko (born 1992), Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player See also *Saint-Ignat, commune in the Puy- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His 1864 novella, ''Notes from Underground'', is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vremya (magazine)
''Vremya'' (russian: Вре́мя) ( en, Time) was a monthly magazine published by Fyodor Dostoevsky under the editorship of his brother Mikhail Dostoevsky. Due to his status as a former convict, Fyodor himself was unable to be the official editor.Joseph Frank, Introduction to ''The House of the Dead'' and ''Poor Folk'', Barnes and Noble, 2004 Publication history The magazine began publication in March 1861. Dostoevsky's novel ''The House of the Dead'' was first published in ''Vremya''. The monthly installments of ''The House of the Dead'' brought considerable popularity and financial success to the magazine. Three of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart", " The Black Cat", and " The Devil in the Belfry", were given their first Russian language publication in ''Vremya''. In the same issue, Dostoevsky anonymously published an autobiographical story, "St. Petersburg Dreams in Verse and Prose," that mimicked some elements of Poe's style. In his preface to Poe's storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Folk
''Poor Folk'' (russian: Бедные люди, ''Bednye lyudi''), sometimes translated as ''Poor People'', is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant lifestyle and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds. Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, ''Poor Folk'' is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor third cousins twice removed. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. A deep but odd friendship develops between them until Dobroselova loses her interest in literature, and later i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Whishaw
Frederick James Whishaw (14 March 1854 – 8 July 1934) was a Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. A popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the 20th century, he published over forty volumes of his work between 1884 and 1914. He was a prolific historical novelist, many of his books being set in Czarist Russia, and his "schoolboy" and adventure serials appeared in many boys' magazines of the era. Several of these were published as full-length novels, such as ''Gubbins Minor and Some Other Fellows'' (1897), ''The Boys of Brierley Grange'' (1906) and ''The Competitors: A Tale of Upton House School'' (1906).Watson, Benjamin. ''English Schoolboy Stories: An Annotated Bibliography of Hardcover Fiction''. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1992. (pg. 158) Other stories, such as ''The White Witch of the Matabele'' (1897) or ''The Three Scouts: A Story of the Boer War'' (1900), depicted colonial Africa. Whishaw was also one of the first translat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today. Life Garnett was born in Brighton, England, the sixth of the eight children of the solicitor David Black (1817–1892), afterwards town clerk and coroner, and his wife, Clara Maria Patten (1825–1875), daughter of painter George Patten. Her brother was the mathematician Arthur Black, and her sister was the labour organiser and novelist Clementina Black. Her father became paralysed in 1873, and two years later her mother died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insulted And Humiliated
''Insulted and Humiliated'' (German: ''Erniedrigte und Beleidigte'') is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Ralph Arthur Roberts. It is an adaptation of the 1861 novel ''Humiliated and Insulted'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Lederer. Cast *Lya Mara *Erich Kaiser-Titz *Ralph Arthur Roberts *Lydia Potechina *Margarete Schön *Anton Edthofer *Fred Goebel *Nikolai Malikoff Nikolai Malikoff ( Russian: Николай Петрович Маликов; 1874 – 20 April 1931) was a Russian-Ukrainian film director and actor who worked mainly as a film director in Russia, and later as an actor in Germany.Goble p.673 Sele ... *Albert Patry *Tatjana Tarydina References External links * Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Frederic Zelnik German silent feature films German black-and-white films 1922 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Zelnik
Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik, 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Friedrich Zelnik was born into a Jews, Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After studying in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nürnberg, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Worms, Germany, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin - in the theaters Theater an der Königsgrätzer Straße, Berliner Theater, and Komödienhaus. In 1914 Friedrich Zelnik began acting in films, and after 1915 producing and directing movies while still appearing in roles as an actor in other director'films. In 1918 he married a young Polish ballet dancer turned film actress named Lya Mara and promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humiliated And Insulted (film)
, image =Humiliated and Insulted (film).jpg , caption = , director = Andrei Eshpai , producer = , writer = , starring = , music = , cinematography = , editing = Pierluigi Leonardi , released = 1990 , studio= Gorky Film StudioLayla FilmsGlobe Film Studio , runtime = 106 min. , country = Soviet UnionSwitzerlandItaly , language = Russian , budget = ''Humiliated and Insulted'' (russian: Униженные и оскорблённые, Unizhennye i oskorblennye) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Andrei Eshpai. Plot The film tells about two families ravaged by the aristocrat Prince Valkovsky. The film shows the relationship of Natasha Ikhmeneva and son of Valkovsky, tells about the fate of the young writer Ivan Petrovich, in love with Natasha, as well as an orphan, Nellie. Cast * Nastassja Kinski as Natasha (voiced by Anna Kamenkova) * Nikita Mikhalkov as Prince Valkovsky * Anastasiya Vyazemskaya as Nellie * Sergey Perelygin as Ivan Petrovich * Viktor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai
Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai (russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Эшпа́й, born 18 April 1956, Moscow, Russia) is a (Russian and Soviet) film director, screenwriter and producer of Mari descent. Biography He is the son of the composer Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai, and the grandson of the composer Yakov Andreyevich Eshpai. He has a wife – actress Yevgeniya Simonova, a daughter – Mariya Eshpai and stepdaughter – actress Zoya Kaidanovskaya (daughter of Yevgeniya Simonova and her first husband – actor Aleksandr Kaidanovsky). He studied at the Moscow State Institute of Culture in 1975-76 graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1980. Filmography * 1983 – '' When Was Played Music of Bakh'' * 1988 – '' The Buffoon'' * 1988 – '' The Jester'' * 1991 – ''Humiliated and Insulted'' * 2001 – '' Flowering Hill Among Bossom Field'' * 2004 – ''Children of the Arbat'' * 2006 – ''Ellipsis'' * 2009 – ''Ivan the Terrible Ivan IV Vasil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with ''Stay as You Are'' (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film ''Tess'' (1979). Other films in which she acted include the erotic horror film '' Cat People'' (1982) and the Wim Wenders dramas ''Paris, Texas'' (1984) and ''Faraway, So Close!'' (1993). She also appeared in the notable biographical drama film ''An American Rhapsody'' (2001). Kinski is fluent in four languages: German, English, French and Italian. She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski. Early life Kinski was born in West Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski. She is the daughter of renowned German actor Klaus Kinski and his second wife, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki.Welsh, James Michael; Gene D. Phillips; Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
