Live and Remember by Valentine Rasputin Valentin Rasputin was born in Atalanka, a village of the Irkutsk Oblast, on March 15th, 1937. He attended Irkutsk University where he studied history and philology, and he graduated in 1959. Out of … [Read more]
Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family’s Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness
Lost In the Taiga: One Russian Family’s Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness Siberia is the largest region contained within Russia. Its total area is around twice that of Alaska1. … [Read more]
Aleksandr Vampilov: The Major Plays
Max Gregg Professor Filimonova Imagining Siberia April 27, 2021 Aleksandr Vampilov: The Major Plays, by Alma Law Aleksandr Vampilov was born in Kutulik, a small town in the Irkutsk Oblast on August 19, 1937. He studied Literature at the … [Read more]
Welcome to Imagining Siberia
Welcome to the course site for Imagining Siberia. This site will host student reviews of books about Siberia. The books roughly fall into the following categories: Travel, History, Environment, Fiction, Autobiography, Literary Studies. … [Read more]