Nickolai Alexandrovich Romanov‚ otherwise known as Czar Nicholas II was Russia’s last emperor. He was born in May of 1868 in Tsakoe Selo. He was the eldest son of Alexander III. He succeeded his father when he died in 1894. That same year Nicholas II married Princess Alexandra of Hesse – Darnstadt. She was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His wife was very unpopular with the Russian nobles‚ not only because she wasn’t Russian but also because she had a strange reliance upon Grigory Rasputin in
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Gogol as the Perfect Namesake In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ Indian parents bestow a Russian name to their first born baby boy; the name is Gogol Ganguli which is after the famous Russian writer‚ Nikolai V. Gogol. In Lahiri’s novel‚ the main character fights an identity crisis because of his highly unusual name. Gogol carries uncertainty about himself throughout the novel because of his name‚ “He hates his name . . . that is has nothing to do with who he is‚ that it is neither Indian nor
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made right and outside influences. The beginning of the Russian revolution‚ or Bolshevik revolution‚ is vital to the understanding of the event as a whole. The question is‚ "How did Nikolai Romanov fail?" Machiavelli attributes all failures of the state to failures of the prince‚ and it was no different in Nikolai II’s case. In Chapter 19 of The Prince‚ Machiavelli states that the one thing a prince must avoid is the contempt of his people. Beginning on February 23rd (March 8th)‚ 1917 factory
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Russia. Bazarov was so proud about himself‚ he thought he was better than anybody else. His way of thinking was only restraining him from absorbing and understanding the ideology and culture of his older generation. After his first interaction with Nikolai‚ Bazarov tells Arkady: “ An antique survival! But your father’s a capital fellow. He wastes his time reading poetry‚ and doesn’t know much about farming‚ but he’s a good-hearted fellow.”(16) Who is Bazarov to make such accusations? From my point of
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The first instance of this is during junior year at high school where he’s assigned Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat” for his English class assignment‚ where his classmates laugh and tease him about the name. On Gogol’s fourteenth birthday‚ he isolates himself whilst listening to the Beatles‚ an album given to him by his American friends. Gogol
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Gogol’s Namesake: Identity and Relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Author: Judith Caesar Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The Overcoat" permeate Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ beginning with Gogol’s being the name the protagonist is called through most of the book. Yet few of the reviewers of the novel mentioned Nikolai Gogol at all in their discussions of the novel‚ except to describe the protagonist Gogol’s loathing of his name‚ or to quote without comment or
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The Characters of Hermann‚ Akaky Akakyevich‚ and the Underground Man and their conflict with the world around them In the present paper I plan to analyze the characters of Hermann from Alexander Pushkin’s "Queen of Spades"‚ Akaky Akakyevich from Nocolai Gogol’s "The Overcoat"‚ and the Underground Man from Dostoevsky’s "Notes From the Underground". The characters will be looked at from the perspective of a conflict each of them has with their surrounding reality. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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LEV KAMENEV Key Notes for Lev Kamenev (Up till 1924): Throughout the summer of 1923‚ Lenin seemed close to death and there was a political struggle Trotsky seemed to hold the most power due to his close friendship with Lenin before his strokes but an opposition had begun to emerge The opposition for Trotsky not only held Stalin but also 2 other politicians: Lev Kamenev and G.E. Zinoviev (a leading Bolshevik who had been Lenin’s closest aide during the revolution) Together‚ the 3 formed
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Literary Criticism We never know what might happen tomorrow or the future but have you ever thought of losing your nose mysteriously and imagined it coming to reality? Unfortunately‚ in the surrealist story “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol‚ a collegiate assessor named Major Kovalev with an unbounded astonishment discovered that his nose was missing from its natural spot. Major Kovalev was shocked‚ frightened and sober just like any other person would naturally behave or react about a missing nose. Kovalev
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spatial/domestic construction of immigrant subjectivity (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the role of trauma in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the place of literature in the immigrant narrative (in Lahiri; Ashoke’s obsession with Nikolai Gogol); intersections between Gogol’s The Overcoat and Lahiri’s The Namesake (common themes‚ the question of “finding oneself‚” finding one’s subjectivity); the construction of the immigrant‚ racial “Other” in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri
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