Russian Keyboard Instructions explaing how to install the Cyrillic alphabet on both Macs and PCs. The site also includes instructions for installing the phonetic keyboard.
Lingvo Online provides Russian to English translation.
Art and Literature
Short Stories from famous authors, including Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Blok in Russian. Each story has accompaning an glossary and audio file.
Art & Architecture from Russian, an overview and links to summaries about Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russian waterways, Lake Baikal, the Transiberian railroad and the arctic.
The Hermitage Museum holds one of the greatest collections of art in all of Russian, located in St. Petersburg.
Multimedia
Pesnia (the Russian word for "song") is a web site that allows students to study the text of Russian songs. The collection of music in this site features the composers Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Rimskii-Korsakov, Kiui, Chaikovskii, and Rachmaninov. The texts of the songs are by poets such as Pushkin, Baratynsky, Nekrasov, Fet, and Lermontov. Pesnia was first developed in the early 1990's by Susan Hafer Richman from Informational Services and Russian Professor Thomas Hodge. The Pesnia software used Toolbook, a Windows-only application.
Beginning Russian Through Film a Cornell site featuring clips from many Russian films, their scripts, and necessary vocabulary.
All students enrolled in Russian and Russian Area Courses are encouraged to attend Russian Table. Russian Table meets weekly on Wednesdays at 5 pm in Severance basement. During Russian table, there are weekly activities, interesting conversations with the facilitator, Mayya Volchkevich, the visiting language assistant from Moscow, and yummy Russian treats.
Contact Us
Russian Department Founders Hall 416 Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA 02481
