A Textbook Pointing the Way to the Russian Classics

Abstract

The article is a review of the textbook in two parts under the title “Russian literature of the 19th century” by the well-known literary scholar Doctor of Philology Yuri Vladimirovich Lebedev. A brief description of the publication, its structure, some of the problems raised by the author, and the basic concept of the textbook continuing the whole line of the author's books published for schoolchildren and students are given. Yu. V. Lebedev emphasizes the uniqueness of the path of Russian literature, a special mission that has always been with our writers — to be spiritual authorities, especially in the most difficult times of our country. In this textbook presents not only the personalities of poets and writers. The author of the textbook also shows the integral literary process of the 19th century closely connected with philosophical thought in Russia and the life of society. In his textbooks Yu. V. Lebedev for the first time in the post-reform period in Russia speaks so vividly and accurately about the reviving and transforming power of Russian classical literature.

Keywords

• russian literature of the 19th century
• russian literature
• classical literature
• personality
• national identity
• orthodox values
• people
• historicism
• social life