Natural school

The natural school (Russian: Натуральная школа, romanized: Naturalnaya shkola) was a literary movement that arose under the influence of Nikolai Gogol in the 1840s up to the 1850s in Russia, and included such diverse authors as Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ivan Panayev, Dmitry Grigorovich, Alexander Hertzen, Aleksey Pisemsky, Vladimir Dal, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Evgeny Grebyonka, among others.[1] Modern-day Russian historians of literature use the term only in its historical context, otherwise preferring to speak of "the earliest stage of Social realism in Russia."[2]

  1. ^ Peace, Richard (1992) [1989]. "The Nineteenth Century: The Natural School and Its Aftermath, 1840–55". In Moser, Charles A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Russian Literature (2008 Online Version) (Rev. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 189–247. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521415545. ISBN 0-521-42567-0.
  2. ^ "Natural School (Натуральная школа)". Brief Literary Encyclopedia in 9 Volumes (in Russian). Moscow. 1968.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)