Critical Insights: Russia’s Golden Age This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on 19th century Russian literature, traditionally referred to as the Golden Age of Russian literature. Works include Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace and Anna Karenina, Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers & Sons, and Fyodor Dostorevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Several essays survey the critical conversation regarding this genre, explore its cultural and historical contexts and offer close and comparative reading of key texts in the genre.