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Clara Militch. I. In the spring of 1878 there was living in Moscow, in a small wooden house. in Shabolovka, a young man of five-and-twenty, called Yakov Aratov. With him lived his father's sister, an elderly maiden lady, over fifty, Platonida Ivanovna. She took charge of his house, and looked after his. household expenditure, a task for which ...
Dec 1, 2022 · On Clara Mílitch. In the penultimate instalment of my WWAC series on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature, I’m looking at something of an outlier. Ivan Turgenev’s 1883 novella Clara Mílitch: It’s a classic in Russia; it seems largely unknown in the English-speaking world — but is it a vampire story? Read on….
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Klara Milich [1] ( Russian: Клара Милич, tr. Klara Milich) is an opera in four acts and six scenes by the Russian composer Alexander Kastalsky based on the eponymous story by Ivan Turgenev published in 1883. The piano score of the opera was published in 1908 by Jurgenson's publishing house and premiered on November 11, 1916, at the ...
Dec 1, 2022 · This places it in a very different class to “The Viy” by Turgenev’s fellow writer of Russian letters, Nikolai Gogol (an author who, incidentally, is mentioned in passing in Clara Mílitch, albeit in his capacity as a humourist rather than a horror writer). Gogol’s tale did not play with such uncertainty, instead dropping the reader directly into a weird realm of supernatural beings.
Ad. 727 reviews. June 27, 2021. Clara Militch (also called After Death; 1883) is one of the late stories of Ivan Turgenev, in fact his "swan song" and a mix of two of the themes that fascinated him: love and the unconsciousness - in this, he was a forerunner of Arthur Schnitzler.
