Аннотация на английском языке на тему "By a Literature Path along Moscow" (10 класс)

The annotation to the collective project:

«A literary path across Moscow and Moscow suburbs»

(Presentation of sights of Moscow and Moscow suburbs for foreign visitors of the capital)

Authors of the project: pupils of class10b Semenov Andrey, Shalick Kristina, Osovitskaya             Asya.

Project leader Semenova Galina Yurevna, the teacher of English language, school №45.

Research area: Literature, History and English language.

Object of research: monuments to our favourite poets and writers.

Research hypothesis: we want to collect a material about our favourite poets and the writers making literary glory of Russia, and to develop the literary path in the places connected with them, to translate the prepared material into English, to draw attention to a literary history of the region. As the project is humanitarian, research has specific character, not such as in natural-science disciplines, and includes gathering and the information analysis, a choice of variants of a route, a choice of structure of the description, selection of material and its ordering.

Our purpose is to open rich literary history of native land for pupils and for foreign visitors of the capital.

Problems:

1. To collect materials on the specified area of research.

2. To raise the level of knowledge in following areas:

- English language.

- The Literature, culture and art.

- Communicative competence.

3. To prepare young guides-interpreters in the allocated places of Moscow.

4. To create booklets-guidebooks and booklets-quizzes in the places chosen by children, in Russian and English languages.

Actuality: Russia is a great country with the richest literary traditions. There lived and created outstanding poets and writers making national pride and glory of Russia – A.S.Pushkin, M.J.Lermontov, N.V.Gogol and S.A.Esenin.

These names are dear for us as well as to the majority of Russian people. The literature ennobles a human soul, opens to it beauty of human spirit. Studying poetry, we learn history and culture of the people because in poetry its thoughts, ideas are most brightly expressed. Through the best samples of the literature that important communication for any people with last generations remains. These our interest to the given theme speaks. The theme is many-sided and mentions different interesting areas: to plunge into history of Russia, to like creativity of Great Russian poets and writers more deeply, to learn about Wednesday in which they lived, to share the opening with contemporaries and to try to express it in English.

Living in Moscow, it is interesting to us to learn more about the places connected with poets, to see monuments from grateful posterity.

Therefore, we have decided to devote the project to disclosing of rich literary history of native land for ourselves, for the companions and for visitors of capital who through our project can touch secret of Russian soul and the best in the Russian literature.

We want to share it with visitors of the capital from the different countries that through culture there was a rapprochement of the people. Presently, when political conditions in the world are again heated, the theme of an exchange of cultures between the people is especially important. For this purpose, the project presentation was made in English by means of modern computer technologies.

The information on the given theme can be interesting to teachers of many subjects as the designing area is on a joint of several subjects: literatures, English language, москвоведения, stories, geography and computer science. The project also is of interest for professional guides-translators, both in Russian, and in English.

Question level of newness: Despite of a large quantity of tourist routes across Moscow and Moscow suburbs such literary excursion on the Boulevard Ring in English also does not exist, and such guidebooks too are not present.

Work methods:

- The search;

- The analytical;

- A generalization method;

- литературоведческий;

- An art method.

Work on the project consists of 10 parts:

1) Visiting of monuments our favourite poets and writers – Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol and Yesenin;

2) Excursion in Ostafevo, Russian literary Parnassus, acquaintance to creativity of the authors making literary pride of Russia;

3) Search and selection of materials;

4) transfer of a material into English language;

5) Preparation of excursions in English.

6) Viewing of films about poets and writers and on their products;

7) Lesson carrying out – a concert devoted to life and creativity of favourite authors;

8) Creation of illustrations to products and pictures about Yesenin;

9) Creation of slides on products of poets and in places, with them connected with them;

10) Project presentation (creation of cards of routes of our literary tracks: on the Parkway ring).

Result of work:

1). Texts of excursions in Russian and English languages are prepared;

2). Guidebooks to project places are created;

3). Excursions on the Garden ring, to Ryazan and Konstantinovo

4). Selection of illustrations and pictures is done;

5). The series of lectures on a theme were conducted;

6). Excursions on a theme for schoolchildren in Russian and English languages;

7). The lesson-concert about poets and writers for pupils 8 is spent;

8). The presentation of the project for pupils of school and for foreign visitors is prepared.

In the long term:

Carrying out of excursions in English for schoolchildren and visitors of capital.

The literature

1. L.V.Zankovskaja «Big sees on distance», Moscow, 2005;

2. L.V.Zankovskaja «New Yesenin», Moscow, "Flint", 1997;

3. I.Evsin «Destiny and Sergey Yesenin's belief»; Grains, Ryazan, 2007;

4. V.P.Avenarius «Boyish years of Pushkin», Moscow, ИТП "Short story", 1993;

5. I.I.Rozhankovskaja «Destiny of one family», St.-Petersburg, изд. »Pushkin fund», 2008;

6. Lydia Belova «Lermontov's Last love», Moscow, Profizdat, 2005

7. Victor Kuznetsov «Sergey Yesenin Kazn after murder» S.Peterburg Izd. Neva, 2005

8. Sergey Yesenin "Complete works" of Izd. Рипол the classic Moscow, 2005

9. Alexander Pushkin «Gold volume», Izd. A crown - a print, Moscow 1999

10. Natalia Gorbachev «Fine Natali» Izd. "Olympus" Moscow, Izd. «Русич» Smolensk.

The literature review.

 By preparation for the project authors had been read and analysed many references. We will begin the review with the book which have turned habitual representations about life and creativity of well-known Russian poet Sergey Yesenin. Its interesting and tragical destiny is known and familiar to much under the books which have left recently and films. L.V.Zankovsky's this book [2] has caused a great interest of authors of the project to the given theme and was an incitement to its creation. Before occurrence of the described book there were only standard stamps about life, destiny and causes of death of the poet, much was a riddle in understanding of its scale and value for Russian poetry of the beginning of the twentieth century.

 Distinctive feature of the given book is that consistently leaning against a historicism method, it gives absolutely new treatment of person S.Yesenin and a role of its creativity in life послереволюционной to Russia. Cleared of slander and наветов, fabricated from personal self-interest or the ideological purposes, the tragical figure of the great Russian poet and the thinker, a role and which value appears at us we just now we start to understand.

 L.V.Zankovskoj's second book is devoted three poets-contemporaries: to S.A.Eseninu, V.V.Mayakovsky and B.L.Pasternak. In this book as three histories of life and creativity are fascinatingly reflected and the analysis of that value which these poets have for our generation separated by a century from them is carried out. Besides, L.V.Zankovskaja has conducted deep historical research of time in which lived and these remarkable Russian poets, the analysis of political conditions, wars and revolutions, cruel race for power, atmosphere of sufferings, a grief and hope, love and disappointment created.

 Poetry as wine, is checked by time, these poets to us become more expensive every year. Eseninsky «Big sees on distance» well describes historical prospect of the present poetry.

 Igor Evsina's book [3] about destiny and S.Esenina's belief is written on a favoring of metropolitan Simona (Новикова), the adviser was the director of the State memorial estate S.A.Esenina E.N.Astakhov.

 In this book for the sake of removal of a sin of suicide from soul of great poet Sergey Yesenin the reasons of his death are investigated and are called нечестивцы, torn off his life.

 When over a tomb of the person, in many years after his death, people, that почтить its memory this person has lived life knowingly gather. If these people gather not only, that is reverential почтить memory on left but also to tell each other that its works are live and now to connect with it and its products the present and future works is there was a great person. We can carry these words and to poet Sergey Yesenin to tell: «Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin – the great Russian poet»

In the book «Boyish years of Pushkin» V.L.Avenariusa [4] is extremely fascinatingly told about the first years spent in Tsarskoje Selo lycée by great both impudent madcap Alexander Pushkin and its friends I.Puschin and A.Delvigom. The book is sated by a rich historical material which is a little known or absolutely unfamiliar to the modern reader.

 In the book «Destiny of one family» [5] I.I.Rozhanovskaja in very interesting manner tell about owners and visitors of manor "Ostafevo": N.M.Karamzin, its friends and wives, and about three generations of Vjazemsky and their friends.

 Lydia Belova in the book «Alexander – Michael Lermontov's last love» [6] has quiveringly and delicately described difficult relations Aleksandry Smirnovoj-Rosset and M.J.Lermontova which were connected by hot, jealous love. This is art-documentary product is created on the basis of A.O.Smirnovoj-Rosset's memoirs, memoirs of its contemporaries and contains many interesting historic facts for fans of poetry.

 Victor Kuznetsov [7] correctly analyzes the facts of last years of Yesenin's life and convincingly proves participation of many friends and acquaintances from an environment of the poet to its murder and discovers the facts of their communication with ОГПУ (Department of the State Political Management).

 At work on the project were investigated «Yesenin's Complete works [8] and« Gold volume »by A.S.Pushkin [9].

Natalia Gorbachev creates a captivating image of the wife of the great poet in «Fine Natali» [10] and removes from it a fault brand in death of the poet

Conclusions.

1). The big research work of search, the analysis and a material choice is spent.

2). Performance of the project demanded knowledge and promoted their accumulation синтетически in several school subjects: to the literature, москвоведению, stories, geography, computer science, to English language.

2). «The literary track» – a compact route of excursion on the Parkway ring where monuments to great Russian poets and writers are located is chosen unique. The route isn't tiresome both for the child, and for the visitor of capital.

3). Route guidebooks are prepared in Russian and English languages.

4). The presentation of the project with use of modern computer technologies is created. The presentation is executed by means PowerPoint, used video data in format AVI, audiofiles in format MP3.

5). Guides-translators from among pupils 8 a class for carrying out of excursions for schoolboys, and also for English-speaking visitors of capital are prepared.

6). Excursions on the made route for schoolboys are led.

7). The project can be used teachers of the literature, москвоведения, stories, English language.

Pushkin Aleksander Sergeevich

(06.06.1799 - 10.02.1837)

Alexander Pushkin is the best Russian poet; he is our glory, our honour. He is the greatest Russian poet, writer, critic, playwright, founder of the Russian literature and “the sun of Russian poetry”.

The monument by Opekushin was opened in 1881. This event became very important for Russian people. Many famous writers, poets and common people came to celebrate the opening of the monument. The monument is situated in Pushkinskaya Square.

Dostoevsky made his favorite speech about the specific role of Russian people in the world and its duty before other peoples. It was just Yesenin who opened the celebration and made a remarkable speech about Pushkin and recited the specially created for this case poem, devoted to Pushkin.

The opening of this monument became a big cultural event. This square was reconstructed specially for the monument to Pushkin. The former name of this square is Passionate, because of the convent of passion.

 It’s the popular place to meet with people because here 3 metro lines cross each other (green, grey and violet) and it’s comfortable to get place in time and have a meeting. Besides the square is located in the center of the city and you can get easily Red Square or Arbat Street in dozen minutes.

Pushkin was born in Moscow, was married in Moscow and spent many happy years here. A lot of pages of his poems are connected with Moscow.

Monuments to Pushkin in Moscow and Ostafievo

Yesenin Sergey Aleksandrovich

(21.09.1895 - 28.10.1925)

Sergey Yesenin is the most lyrical poet in the world, the most Russian poet and one of the most favourite poets in Russia. He is a great poet. He can be compared with Pushkin. There are many big poets but only few of them can be called geniuses. They lived and created in different times. Pushkin was the poet of golden age and Yesenin created at the most difficult, dramatic period in the history of Russia, when all the previous life had been changed.

Yesenin loved his Motherland so deeply, strongly and tenderly as nobody either before him or after, all misfortunes and troubles of his nation and especially peasants of Russia made him suffer and were reflected in his poems and poetry.

His own life and fate are as interesting and dramatic as his creations. The domestic happiness was not anything that Yesenin was destined to enjoy.

We love Yesenin for his love to our Motherland, his belief to fair future of Russia and the sincerity and clearness of his soul lyre. Sergey Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo Ryazan’s region in the peasant’s family. He loved his native land greatly and described the nature of his small motherland in his poems. But he loved Moscow too and devoted a very beautiful verse to it, though he did not have any flat or even room in it.

The monument to a Russian poet Sergey Esenin at the Tverskoy Boulevard was unveiled on October 2, 1995. The author of that original monument is A.A.Bichukov. Esenin is one of the most favorable poets of Russia, that is why on his birthday on October 3, many Muscovites come to the monument and read poems about nature, the Motherland, and Moscow.          

Sholokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovich

(11.05.1905 - 21.02.1984)

Michail Sholokhov was a Nobel's prize winner in literature and he is famous for his series Tikhy Don ,he is author of novels “Podnyataya tselina”, “They Fought for Their Country” , short story “The Fate of a Man”.

Sholokhov wrote about cossack’s land - history, life and traditions of people living in this beautiful free places in the south of Russia on the bank of the Don-river. This monument is brand new, it has been built this year (2007). Sholokhov used to live in this neighborhood, on the Sivtsev Vrazhek street, so the choice for the monument's location is rather symbolic.

The monument's designer Alexander Rukovishnikov explained the idea he had intended to transmit with this monument. Sholokhov sits in a boat and sees the surface of an imaginary river. The horses seem to surround the boat, but actually they are swimming in different directions. The horses are allusions of 'red' [pro-Communist] and 'white' [pro-Tsar] armies of the Civil War (1917-1921). The opposing directions in which horses are swimming are supposed to symbolize the civil confrontation of 'red' and 'white' supports. The theme of the Civil War and how it broke the society and even families was a prominent idea in Sholokhov’s writing.

Monument to M.Sholokhov (11.05.1905 – 21.02.1984)

Gogol Nicolay Vasilyevich (31.03.1809 - 04.03.1852)

There is a very interesting story, connected with the monument to N.V. Gogol. Sculptor N.A. Andreev managed to create a real masterpiece in 1909 at the anniversary of 100 years of the birthday of the writer. This monument has been one of the best monuments of Moscow till our days. And it was set in Gogol Boulevard, but it stood there only up to 1951, when our leader of all peoples I. Stalin ordered to put it away, because it did not correspond to soviet optimism.

Fortunately the monument was saved from demolition and was replaced in a quiet place - the yard of Gogol’s library on the Nikitsky Boulevard. Tomsky was ordered to create Gogol, “looking at us with approval” instead of tired and unhappy former Gogol.

And now we can enjoy both Gogols: the official merry one and the real person in his last years

The sculptor of this official and happy   The author of this sick and tired Gogol is N.A.Andreev.

Gogol is N.V.Tomsky. It is in Gogol     This monument is on the Nikitsky boulevard.

BAoulevard.

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhaylovich (11.11.1821 - 09.02.1881)

F.M.Dostoevsky is a Great Russian writer who is well known round the world together with A.Pushkin. It is impossible to imagine Russian literature without Dostoevsky. His spiritual heritage is terrific. He was deeply concerned in solving the most important problems of Russian people. He believed that Russian people had a usual “mysterious soul”.

He showed the internal world of people with such depth as nobody else. It was he who attracted attention to the fate of a simple person with common usual life.

He was interested in depicting behavour of different people in different situations: tragic, romantic, happy and unhappy. His heroes are poor and pitiful, homeless and rich, noble and magnanimous, mean and greedy. He himself knew life very well: he knew awful poverty, hunger, prison, humiliation. He suffered and he was happy in love. Many people, his contemporaries, admired him - he was his teacher, leader, even idol of the youth.

The monument to the Great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was erected in front of the building of the Russian state library in 1997.

The author of the monument is sculptor A. Rukavishnikov. Almost morbid asceticism, insularity and anxiety – these are the features peculiar to Dostoevsky; they are present on the writer portraits, made by his contemporaries and repeated in the statue, created by Rukavishnikov.

Asceticism, severe expression of Dostoevsky corresponds to laconicism, dryness and greatness                        of the colonnade surrounding the library.

Monument to Dostoevsky

 near Russian state library

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