Russian 371: Supplementary Materials and Websites

http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie/rae370_web2.html Information on the Agrarian calendar
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol1no1/medievalsource.html The Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.bridgebuilding.com/narr/tsb.html A biography of SS. Sergius and Bacchus
http://historymedren.about.com/cs/medievalrussia/ In depth information on medieval Russian history and culture
http://www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/history-e.html History and Art of medieval Russia
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/frame1.html An introduction to icons and medieval Russian art
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/pushkingenealogy.html The genealogy of Pushkin, as featured on the PBS program Frontline
http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/rusprim.html Excellent site for additional primary sources, in English and Russian, in Medieval East Slavic Literature


For those students interested in Medieval Russian Art, the Reed College Slide Library has a vast and impressive slide collection of Russian Icons from the 11-19 century. Some 600 slides were donated by A. Dean McKenzie professor emeritus at University of Oregon. To learn more about the slide (and the on-going project of cataloging them), contact Karin Whalen at the slide library.