Russian Culture: Week 3

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Week Three

--Muscovite Russia

Links:

Ivan III-The Great

Ivan IV (the Terrible) Wikipedia

Materials also found in the course packet:

Excerpts from the Correspondence of Ivan the Terrible with Prince Kurbskii

Optional:

Alfred Rambaud on Ivan III

More on Ivan the Terrible (With a heavy emphasis on his bad side)

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*--Muscovite Art, Architecture, and Culture*
Links: Russian Church Architecture Pictures of Muscovite Architecture Russian Folk Tales Please use the links to read the following tales: Morozko, Frog Princess, The Golden Fish, Alyonushka, Baba Yaga, and Ilya of Murom. The Tale of Ivan and the Gray Wolf Images from Russian Folk Tales The Lubok Materials also found in the course packet: The Domostroi (excerpts) The Ulozhenie: The Law Code of 1649 (excerpts) Optional: Pictures of Russia to Explore on your own. Images provide by Theodore Taranovksi and Daniel Waugh of the University of Washington.

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