A slow-reads channel. 2026, SEP–OCT, Yevgeny Onegin, Alexander Pushkin 2026–2027, Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
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20% off the Anna Karenina slow read, this weekend only
To celebrate publication day for instalment 1 of my Anna Karenina slow read, I’m offering a 20% discount on an annual plan to make it easier to decide. This discount is available only until 11:59 p.m. (UK time) on Sunday 1 November, so you...
Anna Karenina, Instalment 1 of 14
Part One, Chapters I–XXIII
Welcome to the first instalment of our 14-month slow read through Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. This instalment was originally published in January 1875 in the Russian Messenger (Ру́сский ве́стник).
‘My friends, you’ll feel sorry for Lensky’: The famous duel scene in Yevgeny Onegin
Pushkin wrote most of Chapter 6 while under house arrest at his mother’s estate in Mikhaylovskoye. I discussed this in the introduction to my Chapter 5 analysis.
The chapter’s main events—stanzas 8–35—are set on 13 and 14 January 18...
Yevgeny Onegin, Chapter 5
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Epigraph:
My Svetlana, be you spared,
all such dreadful nightmares…
Zhukovsky (1783–1852)
This is taken from Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky’s ballad Svetlana (1812), which was considered a model of...
Yevgeny Onegin, Chapter 4
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La morale dans la nature des choses.
- Necker
The Stanley Mitchell translation is proving to be the richest, not least for the footnotes. The translation is also very good. Here’s what Mitchell say...
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A 1971 vintage Scot who loves reading and music. Leading slow-reads of Russian Literature. Russian Lang & Lit MA Hons (St Andrews) | Translation & Interpreting MA (Bradford)
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