Russian Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Early History
The eighteenth century is generally considered the beginning of modern Russian literature for several reasons. The most important is that a clear break occurred with the Age of Faith, as Serge Zenkovsky calls it in the introduction to his anthology, Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles and Tales (1974). The acceptance of Christianity in 988-989 c.e. by Vladimir the Great (who ruled Kievan Rus from 980 to 1015) from culturally superior Byzantium established the authority of the Orthodox Church and enabled it to determine the nature of literature, such as it...
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