May 14
Session IV:
Poems and musings of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zinaida Gippius, and Nadezhda Teffi;
The “primitive” art of Natalya Goncharova (and her circle)
Two short texts:
The Demonic Woman by Nadezhda Teffi (fiction)
Attic Life by Marina Tsvetaeva (nonfiction)
Three poems:
When in a Suicidal Anguish by Anna Akhmatova
This Thing Called Homesickness by Marina Tsvetaeva
She by Zinaida Gippius
OPTIONAL: Article "Women Poets of the Silver Age" by Jane A. Taubman, from the collection Women Writers in Russian Literature edited by Toby W. Clyman and Diana Greene.