A Russian Schoolboy

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Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. A Russian schoolboy by Sergei Aksakov Other authors: See the other authors section.

Add to Your books. Trinity College Booklist Class Six, Biography No current Talk conversations about this book. Status Sergei Aksakov — primary author all editions calculated Bayley, John Introduction secondary author some editions confirmed Duff, J.

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Translator secondary author some editions confirmed Sokolov, Kirill Illustrator secondary author some editions confirmed. You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. Aksakov, who was born in , is one of the earliest of the great Russian writers, older than Pushkin, and already a mature man of thirty when Tolstoy was born. In the middle of winter in the year , when I was eight years old, we travelled to Kazan, the chief town of the Province. It was the first time I had really seen and really felt that season; and the effect was to banish from my head for a time all thoughts either of the war with Napoleon or of the University and the companions I had left there.

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Wikipedia in English None. Book description At the end of the 18th century when 'A Russian Schoolboy' begins, Aksakov was happily living in the country with his family: Sometimes he would recite verses aloud and dress up to suit the parts. A Russian schoolboy has received online abuse and death threats after suggesting that many German troops who invaded the USSR in World War Two were themselves victims of the conflict.

German and Russian schoolchildren had researched stories about war victims. The Kremlin said the criticism was excessive, but suggested re-examining aspects of Russia's education system.

Desyatnichenko said he had learned about a German soldier named Georg Johann Rau, a Wehrmacht corporal who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and later died in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. He spoke of the "unspeakable difficulties" faced by soldiers during the war, and ended his speech to the German parliament by expressing the hope that "common sense will prevail on Earth and the world will never see war again". Desyatnichenko's remarks went unnoticed for two days, until a Germany-based Facebook user with a Russian name posted a video of his speech late on Sunday, remarking that he found it "disgusting".

The post received more than 1, likes and provoked a wave of criticism and abuse directed against Desyatnichenko, initially mainly from strongly pro-Kremlin social media accounts.

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The controversy generated more than 10, tweets in little over 18 hours, according to the social media analysis tool Spredfast. It was also quickly picked up by Russian state television, with national channel Rossiya 1 devoting an hour-long political talk show to it, with one guest blaming "liberal propaganda" for the boy's remarks.

On Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said those accusing Desyatnichenko of defending Nazism were wrong, and accused them of "hounding" the boy, but also suggested that problems in the education system may be to blame for his remarks.

The Kremlin has in the past been accused of exploiting sensitivities around the war in order to promote a wider nationalistic agenda. Several commentators suggested that Desyatnichenko's school in the Siberian town Novy Urengoi was to blame.

They also suggested something might be wrong with the education system as a whole.