My Russian Experience at University of Hawaii

The Russian Club has been focused on the Matryoshka- or Russian nesting dolls- for the past two weeks. First, we painted our own dolls...

We recently read Alexander Pushkin’s iconic epic-poem Eugene Onegin in our Russian Literature class this past week. I was excited to read...

Last week, I attended an information session about careers in diplomacy with the U.S. Department of State. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what...

The very first Russian author I ever read was Alexander Pushkin. I had never heard of him until I lived abroad, and I read his...

Before I came to UH-Manoa as a Russian major, I knew some Russian. Not a lot, mind you, but I did have a beginner knowledge of the...

I was super excited to finally take RUS 101 this semester. Of course, as a Russian major, I was eager to start learning the language,...

Alfred Hitchcock, the man known as “the master of suspense,” (I can still remember the creepy and eerie feeling I had while watching...

In my Russian Film class, the first movie we watched was “Twilight of a Woman’s Soul,” directed by Evgenii Bauer. The film was made in...

This past Wednesday (15 Aug 2018), the College of Linguistics, Languages and Literature (LLL) at the University of Hawaii-Manoa held an...

1. You learn about a wide-variety of Russian authors Okay, so this one is obvious, but true nonetheless. I grew up knowing only one...

I thought I’d take a break from writing about the philosophical content of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and just share a little bit about my...

I absolutely loved taking a Russian literature class this past semester. We studied so many brilliant, innovative, and thought-provoking...

One of the last films we watched in Russian Culture class was a movie called Russian Ark, directed by Alexander Sokurov. This film is not...