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Zuleikha (novel)
''Zuleikha'' (russian: Зулейха́ открыва́ет глаза́, ''Zuleihka otkrivaet glaza'' 'Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes'' is a debut novel written in 2015 by the Russian author Guzel Yakhina. It describes the lives of various people, including the titular protagonist, struggling to survive in exile in Siberia from 1930 to 1946. The book won the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award and the Big Book Award in 2015. It has been translated into twenty-one languages. Plot summary In 1930, Zuleikha lives in a small Tatar village in the Soviet Union with her husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law. Her husband treats her terribly and favors her mother-in-law heavily. Her mother-in-law is extremely ungrateful for everything Zuleikha does for her. Zuleikha is considered a failure because she has attempted to have 4 different children but all have died. As part of the dekulakization campaign, her husband is executed by Ignatov for refusing to leave. She is then exiled to Siberia with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guzel Yakhina
Guzel Shamilyevna Yakhina (russian: Гузель Шамильевна Яхина, tt-Cyrl, Гүзәл Шамил кызы Яхина, translit=Güzäl Şamil qızı Yaxina, born 1 June 1977, Kazan) is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. Biography Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a doctor, while her father is an engineer. She spoke Tatar at home and learned Russian only after she started going to daycare. She studied at the Department of Foreign Languages in the Tatar State University of Humanities and Education. In 1999, she moved to Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow School of Film with a degree in screenwriting. She opposed the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, stating that "Belief in peace was an inalienable part of Soviet childhood, instilling that belief in the identity of each of us. That belief seemed unshakable, as if it would last until the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AST (publisher)
AST (russian: АСТ) is one of the largest book publishing companies in Russia, headed by Oleg Bartenev (Олег Бартенев). It owns a bookstores chain "Bukva" (russian: Буква, lit. ''A Letter''). Among AST partners are publishing companies Astrel, Zebra E, Molodaya Gvardiya, CenterCom, bookstores Moscow and Biblio Globus and online shops, such as Ozon.ru. It also owns comic book and manga publisher Comics Factory. History The company was established in 1990 by Andrey Gertsev, Sergei Derevianko and Tatiana Derevianko as "Creative Cooperative Association AST" (russian: Творческое кооперативное объединение «АСТ»). AST is an abbreviation meaning Andrey-Sergei-Tatiana. In 1993 the company was divided into AST itself, headed by Andrey Gertsev, and AST-PRESS. As of 2007, AST and its rival (later parent company) Eksmo Eksmo (russian: Эксмо) is one of the largest publishing houses in Russia. Eksmo and AST (which it later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket in favor of printing the cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award
The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award is an annual all-Russian literary award that was founded in 2003 by the Leo Tolstoy Museum Estate and Samsung Electronics. The award is presented for the best traditional-style novel written in Russian or translated into Russian. The Yasnaya Polyana literary award maintains classical literature traditions by commemorating the authors of outstanding works and also supports contemporary literary works by noting talented writers. These two aspects allow the award to remain balanced and harmonious. Background Originally, till 2005, there were two categories: ''An Outstanding Work of Russian Fiction'' and ''An Outstanding Debut in Russian Fiction'', renamed into ''Contemporary Classic'' and ''21st Century'', respectively. In 2012 (the award's 10-year anniversary), another nomination category was added to the award – ''Childhood, Boyhood, Youth'', named after Leo Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels. The fourth category, ''Foreign Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Book (award)
Big Book (russian: Большая Книга, Bolshaya Kniga) is a Russian Russian literature, literary award for best prose in Russian language, Russian. The award is financed by the founders of the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, Russian major businessmen and business structures. Acceptable candidates for the award are works of all prose genres, including memoirs, biographies and other documentary prose, written in or translated to Russian. The cash reward is as follows: * First place — 3 million Russian ruble, rubles. * Second place — 1.5 million rubles. * Third place — 1 million rubles. Founders The founder of the Big Book National Literary Award is the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, founded by: * Alfa-Bank, Alfa-Bank JSC * Renova Group * Roman Abramovich, Russian-Israeli businessman, investor and politician * Alexander Mamut, Russian lawyer, banker and investor * LitRes e-book and audiobook service * Chitai-Gorod bookstore chain * GU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatars
The Tatars ()Tatar in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar". Initially, the ethnonym ''Tatar'' possibly referred to the . That confederation was eventually incorporated into the when unified the various steppe tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dekulakization
Dekulakization (russian: раскулачивание, ''raskulachivanie''; uk, розкуркулення, ''rozkurkulennia'') was the Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, or executions of millions of kulaks (prosperous peasants) and their families. Redistribution of farmland started in 1917 and lasted until 1933, but was most active in the 1929–1932 period of the first five-year plan. To facilitate the expropriations of farmland, the Soviet government portrayed kulaks as class enemies of the Soviet Union. More than 1.8 million peasants were deported in 1930–1931.Robert Conquest (1986) ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine''. Oxford University Press. .Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, Stéphane Courtois, ''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression'', Harvard University Press, 1999, hardcover, 858 pages, Lynne Viola ''The Unknown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Severo-Yeniseysky District
Severo-Yeniseysky District (russian: Се́веро-Енисе́йский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3017 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the center of the krai and borders with Evenkiysky District in the northwest, north, and east, Motyginsky District in the southeast, and with Yeniseysky District in the southwest and west. The area of the district is .Official website of Krasnoyarsk KraiInformation about Severo-Yeniseysky District Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...) of Severo-Yeniseysky. Population: 11,077 ( 2002 Census); The population of the administrative center accounts for 62.5% of the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes (TV Series)
''Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes'' ( rus, Зулейха открывает глаза, Zuleikha otkrivaet glaza) is a Russian television historical fiction drama series based on the novel ''Zuleikha'' by Guzel Yakhina and aired on channel Russia-1 in April 2020. The series stars Chulpan Khamatova as Zuleikha Valieva, a peasant woman from the Tatar village in the Soviet Union. Plot It's the story of a peasant woman Zuleikha from the small Tatar village. In 1930 there is the Soviet campaign of political repressions of kulaks. Zuleikha's husband resisted dekulakization and was killed by communists. Zuleikha was transported to Siberia and left in a remote location on Angara River with little means of survival. She had to overcome the harsh conditions, build relationships with other exiles and forge her new identity and reasons for living. Cast and characters * Chulpan Khamatova as Zuleikha * Evgeny Morozov as Ivan Ignatov * Yulia Peresild as Nastasya * Roman Madyanov as Zinovy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chulpan Khamatova
Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova PAR (russian: Чулпан Наилевна Хаматова; tt-Cyrl, Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова; born 1 October 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress Biography Early life and theater career Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova was born on 1 October 1975 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents Marina Galimullovna Khamatova and Nail Khamatov are both engineers. Her name, ''Chulpan'', means "morning star" (i.e. Venus) in Tatar (she is of Volga Tatar origin). Her younger brother is also an actor. As a child, she was engaged in figure skating and from the eighth grade studied at the mathematical school of the Kazan Federal University. She was accepted at the Kazan State Finance and Economics Institute but ended up changing her mind and entered the Kazan Theater School. Teachers Juno Kareva and Vadim Keshner, assessing the prospects of the beginning actress, advised and helped Khamatova continue her st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels About Political Repression In The Soviet Union
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 historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In The Stalin Era
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] |
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