Broke Wave
The GOAT
Russia has given us countless authors, composers, scientists and artists over the centuries. In this thread let’s discuss some of our favourite things from Russia.
Official Russian History/Culture Thread
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Pushkin
Rimsky-Korsakov
Mussorgsky
Stravinsky
Pajitnov
It's a shame Putin is fukking everything up.
Rimsky-Korsakov
Mussorgsky
Stravinsky
Pajitnov
It's a shame Putin is fukking everything up.
vladimir putin has to be #1.
Broke Wave
The GOAT
I agree. Let’s balance the hate speech with love thoughPushkin
Rimsky-Korsakov
Mussorgsky
Stravinsky
Pajitnov
It's a shame Putin is fukking everything up.
Good companion thread with my history of Russia/Ukraine thread. I can admit that I actually do enjoy Russian novels. Working on War and Peace now, I think I prefer Dostoyevsky tho….
NZA
LOL
IC3PEAK makes interesting music
On literature I'd add
Sholokhov, specially
And Quiet Flows the Don - Wikipedia
Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita - Wikipedia
Ilf and Petrov (Russians born in Odessa)
The Little Golden Calf - Wikipedia
and
The Twelve Chairs - Wikipedia
Nabokov's Lolita
Chekhov's dramas
On film directors:
Sergei Eisenstein
My goat director Tarkovsky
Stalker is my goat film, I was speachless for two days afterwards
Mikhalkov, to put someone contemporary
Speaking on film and theater, modern acting would not exist without Stanislavski
On actors one could maybe even add a half Russian Hellen Mirren, born Mironoff
On classical music
Tchaikovsky
Stravinsky
Rock Music
Kino (band) - Wikipedia
On ballet
Anna Pavlova
(No, not Nijinsky, he was born in Kiev and considered himself Polish)
Maya Plisetskaya, my goat dancer, speacially here
Baryshnikov, my favorite mail dancer:
Svetlana Zakharova as a contemporary
Spot the difference between Ucrainans: Nijinsky considered himself Polish, and Ilf and Petrov considered themselves Russian
Sholokhov, specially
And Quiet Flows the Don - Wikipedia
Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita - Wikipedia
Ilf and Petrov (Russians born in Odessa)
The Little Golden Calf - Wikipedia
and
The Twelve Chairs - Wikipedia
Nabokov's Lolita
Chekhov's dramas
On film directors:
Sergei Eisenstein
My goat director Tarkovsky
Stalker is my goat film, I was speachless for two days afterwards
Mikhalkov, to put someone contemporary
Speaking on film and theater, modern acting would not exist without Stanislavski
On actors one could maybe even add a half Russian Hellen Mirren, born Mironoff
On classical music
Tchaikovsky
Stravinsky
Rock Music
Kino (band) - Wikipedia
On ballet
Anna Pavlova
(No, not Nijinsky, he was born in Kiev and considered himself Polish)
Maya Plisetskaya, my goat dancer, speacially here
Baryshnikov, my favorite mail dancer:
Svetlana Zakharova as a contemporary
Spot the difference between Ucrainans: Nijinsky considered himself Polish, and Ilf and Petrov considered themselves Russian
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Chekhov and Bulgakov are GOATed 
Sholokhov too.Chekhov and Bulgakov are GOATed
Immagine participating in a civil war on a winning side, and then writing a novel just a few years afterwards from the opposite pov...
...that becomes the bestseller...
and then you end up glorying the losing side in the last volume (in the middle of the Soviet Russia!)...
It got a Nobel for a reason.
In my country Sholokhov was studyed in school and appreciated just as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky...
Never understood why he didn't get the same fame in the west...
And Quiet Flows the Don is an important book, specially now to understand this conflict...
Like Andrić's The Bridge on Drina gives you the background of the Bosnian civil war...
Broke Wave
The GOAT
Damn son give us a must read list for any noobs right now! I love eastern culture and the taboo of Russia makes it that much more intellectual. Respectuflly.
Oh I'm no expert, I feel my list would be just the most famous books lol:
1. The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky
My GOAT book generally.
At the time I had a religious friend that loved the stories on the monk Alyosha...
I loved the return of Christ story...
The book seems like the Rorschach test on religion, that everyone sees differently basing on personal faith...
2. The Gambler, by Dostoyevsky
Arguably the best work of art on addiction, written to cover his own gambling debts
3. And Quiet Flows the Don, by Sholokhov
Already mentioned, but it's also a good book.
Being so huge, 4 volumes, I remember not managing to read it at high school in time for the discussion in class... Somehow I managed to survive the discussion, but it was such a great and captivating book, that I finished it later on my own, despite knowing the story by then... It was that good...
4. War and Peace, by Tolstoy
Just for the magnitude of it, a must for general culture
5. The Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov
This was my mother's GOAT book and we had the whole Bulgakov collection...
I'm not a huge fan of fantasy and christian philosophy, but it is also a must for the general culture and I respect the book...
Honorable mention: Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Everyone should read it for the general culture, but I hated the privilege of elites to dwell on their broken hearts.
Poor women of their time (and often even today) could not separate from their husbands... One could probably not write two pages on their dresses, that's just a detail but it was really bothering me at the time...
This does not take anything from the feelings of the rich though. They are real, and the book is famous for a reason, although it screams rich privilege from almost every page...
I remembered I learned in high school that Catherine the Great was a nymphomaniac and she died because she tried to fukk a horse. She had them lift it with a machine or some shyt to fukk her is this true
its a COPE thread
