Professor Irwin Weil will become the first lecturer in the Tolstoy Readings

Professor Irwin Weil will become the first lecturer in the Tolstoy Readings

<p> (KZN.RU, September 28). Irwin Weil, the Doctor of Philosophy, Professor will give the first lecture in the Tolstoy Readings for Kazan teachers of the Russian language and literature. </p> <p> </p> <p> He will be another guest of the art-residence “Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda”, created on the initiative of Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. This autumn, Tolstoy Readings for teachers of the Russian language and literature will be held there. They are aimed to motivate teachers and their students for a deeper study of the work of Russian classics. Five free lectures for teachers about Leo Tolstoy will be held from October to December 2018. </p> <p> </p> <p> For example, Anastasia Tolstaya, the oldest daughter of Vladimir Tolstoy (the adviser to the president of Russia for cultural policy, the former director of Yasnaya Polyana), the great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy, Sergey Shargunov, the winner of many Russian and European competitions, Vladislav Otroshenko, the writer and literary critic, as well as the current guest of Kazan Irwin Weil will perform in the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda. </p> <p> </p> <p> The first lecture will be held on October 2 at 2:00 pm in the Cultural-Leisure Complex named after V. Lenin (Kopylov Street, №2a), reports the Culture Department of the Executive Committee of Kazan. </p> <p> </p> <p> For reference </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> Irwin Weil was born in 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1951, he graduated from the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the University of Chicago. In 1960, he presented his doctoral dissertation at the Harvard University. He had read lectures on Russian linguistics and Russian literature in many universities in America, the Soviet Union and Russia. From 1966 to the present, he teaches at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of several monographs and many articles on Russian literature and music, as well as lectures on Russian literature, in particular, on the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov and “Maksim Gorky. A look from America”. In addition, Irwin Weil developed a unique stage course “Russian Music in the Context of Russian Culture”. </p>

2018-09-28T14:33:23+0300