Do you love the way Russian authors think, but you aren’t sure why? This course explores the close relationship between literature and philosophy in Russia. The literary works of Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy form the core of our studies. Together with Russian literary works, we will also read the writings of journalists, philosophers, political activists, religious thinkers, and literary critics. Chaadaev, Belinsky, Herzen, Chernyshevsky, and Solovyov constitute the other half of the literary-philosophical dialogue under consideration. Literary works read include Eugene Onegin, Dead Souls, Hunter’s Sketches, The Idiot, and Hadji Murat. (Group III) (Writing Option)