Reflections on the Russian Soul

Dmitry S. Likhachev was one of Russia’s most famous literary historians and cultural commentators. In the late 1980’s Mikhail Gorbachev enlisted him as Chairman of the Soviet Cultural Fund. In 1998 he was the first person since 1917 to be presented with the order of St. Andrew. He was made corresponding member of the Austrian, American, British and Italian academies of arts and sciences.

The Last of the Russian Intelligentsia (Miklós Kun)


Foreword to the Russian Edition


Foreword to the English Edition


The House of Likhachev


The Children of M.M. Likhachev


My Childhood


The Disappearance of Katerinushka


The Petersburg of my Childhood


Kuokkala


The Crimea


A Volga Cruise, 1914


The Philanthropic Society Grammar School


K.I. May's Grammar School and Modern School


The Revolution--Outward Impressions


Life in No.1 State Printing-house


Taytsy, Olgino, Toksovo


The Lentovskaya School


Leonid Vladimirovich Georg


The University


The Red Terror


The Making of a Philosophy


S.A. Alekseyev-Askoldov


Khelfernak


The Brotherhood of St Serafim of Sarov


The Cosmic Academy of Sciences


Arrest and Imprisonment


Kem Transfer Point and the Crossing to Solovki Island


The Camp Topography of Solovki


The Scenery of Solovki


Krimkab


The Diagonal of a Child's Blanket


The Visit by Maksim Gorki and the Mass Executions of 1929


The Solovki Museum


The Solovki Theatre


Solovki People


A Few Fragments


Leaving Solovki


Zvanka and Tikhvin. Release


The Fate of My Friends after Solovki


The Repression of the '30s


The Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR


Attempts at Writing


My Conviction Quashed


I Fail the Exams


I Leave the Academy of Sciences Press


Novgorod


The Blockade


Two Letters about the Blockade of Leningrad


Prorabotki


A Trip to Solovki in 1996


My last time on Solovki