Free courses

1914 - Pan-humanity, or the First World War and Europe
Petr Safronov
(Philosopher, independent researcher)
1980s: When everyone turned into ghosts
Petr Safronov
(Philosopher, independent researcher)
Author's Voice in Contemporary Fiction Free Creative Writing
Sergey Lebedenko
(Independent correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, literary critic, teacher of journalism and literary excellence)
Autobiographical Poetics of the Russian Diaspora Free Creative Writing
Victor Dimitriev
(Candidate of Philological Sciences, specialist in Russian émigré literature of the interwar period, Russian-French relations, and the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Catfication. An interdisciplinary course exploring the optics of human perception of the cat in space and time
Anna Kondratyeva
(the veterinary physician of the Hermitage cats, public figure and social entrepreneur, member of the Public Council on Animal Issues in St. Petersburg)
Conscious Reading
Sergey Lebedenko
(Independent correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, literary critic, teacher of journalism and literary excellence)
Cultural and Political Journalism Workshop
Diary literature of the Soviet totalitarian era
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
Dramatic Writing. How to write for film and theatre today: an introduction to contemporary drama Free Creative Writing
Evolution of plot and genre
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Experimental Drama: A Practical Course Free Creative Writing
Evgeniy Stashkov
(Sheffield-based playwright, artist, teacher, founder of the international independent festival of non-conventional drama “Nim”)
Genre Formation in the Modern Russian Literature
Evgeniy Ermolin
(Writer, literary critic, literary critic, publicist, blogger)
Genre: detective, horror, fantasy, historical novel Free Creative Writing
Nelly Shulman
(Writer, historian, graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dissertation on Comparative Literature). Publishes in Russian and English)
History of Soviet Literature 1917-1956 Free Creative Writing
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
History of Soviet poetry
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
How to write text in English Free Creative Writing
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Intellectual Resistance to Official Ideology in the First Years of the War Free Creative Writing
Olga Bugoslavskaya
Introduction to Publishing Venture Free Creative Writing
Vladimir Kharitonov
(Cand.Sc. in Philosophy, Director of Free University Publishing House, Technical Director of Freedom Letters Publishers)
Introduction to the theory and practice of humanism
Elena Cherepanov
(PhD psychology)
Introductory acting course "The Birth of the New" (according to the method of Mikhail Chekhov)
Olesya Savchenko
(Director, Researcher and teacher of acting by the method of Mikhail Chekhov, member of the Michael Chekov Association (USA, MICHA))
Laboratory of the Lasting Catastrophe Free Creative Writing
Elena Kostyuchenko
(journalist and writer, works with Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, various foreign media, author of the book “My Beloved Country)
Literary memoirs and autobiographical prose of the Soviet period Free Creative Writing
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
Literary Theory and Challenges of Modernity Free Creative Writing
Poetics,(Literary) Critique and Poetry Theory: Is it possible to evaluate(poetry)?
Tatiana Voltskaya
(Poet, essayist, author of 17 collections of poems)
Poetry master class with Katya Kapovich
Katia Kapovich
(poet)
Poetry of Experiment Free Creative Writing
Anna Aksenova
(Cand.Sc. in Philology, ndependent researcher, writer and interpreter)
Predictions and prophecies in world literature
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Russian incarnations
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Russian incarnations (Emigration in literatute)
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Russian prose of modern times (1990-2020) Free Creative Writing
Tatyana Sotnikova
(Cand. Sc. in Philology, writer (pen name - Anna Berseneva))
Russian theatrical censorship: history and modernity Free Creative Writing
Mikhail Kaluzhsky
(Playwright and journalist)
Screen imagery in modern cinema and television
Valery Balayan
(Film director, radio journalist, documentary film screenwriter)
Stories of Power: The Practice of Posttraumatic Drama Free Creative Writing
Sergey Davydov
(Playwright, screenwriter, poet, author of the novel Springfield. Nominee for the Dar Award, winner of the Kulminatsiya. Play of the Year Award, specially recognized with the Golden Mask National Award. Author of more than 30 plays that have been staged in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Belgrade, Tbilisi, and other cities. Author of the feature film I Have to Run (Germany).)
The Art of Understanding Music Free Creative Writing
Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The Art of Women Composers in the Context of Male Composer Tradition Free Creative Writing
Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The History of Creative Human-AI Interaction from Homer to Nick Bostrom Free Creative Writing
Michael Epstein
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Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)
The History of Soviet Culture in the 1970s
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
The Invisible Co-Author: How AI is Changing Creative Writing Free Creative Writing
Tatyana Shakhmatova
The Writer as a Researcher Free Creative Writing
Theory and Practice of Text Illustration Free Creative Writing
Tatyana Sirotinina
(Designer, artist, corporate events and branding manager)
Through the Eyes of a Child: Stories by Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Writers of the 20th Century Free Creative Writing
Oleg Lekmanov
(Former professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on Russian modernism, the history of 20th-century poetry and prose, Soviet children's literature, and the history of Russian and Soviet literature on love and sexuality.)
Workshop Poetry Free Creative Writing
Tatiana Voltskaya
(Poet, essayist, author of 17 collections of poems)
Workshop Literary criticism Free Creative Writing
Evgeniy Ermolin
(Writer, literary critic, literary critic, publicist, blogger)
Workshop Non-fiction Free Creative Writing
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)