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Russia The novel in the classroom
A historical fiction that opens five centuries of Russian power — and the long tension between the state and freedom. Built for secondary level, at the crossroads of history, language and civics.
Je fus le Tsar — A Russian Soul is a forthcoming French-language novel; classroom materials are first developed for French and European curricula. Tell us your context below.
Power, from the inside
Where the textbook gives institutions, the novel steps into the antechambers of the tsar and the Kremlin: how a decision is made, how the office weighs on the one who holds it. History becomes embodied — and so, open to discussion.
Fiction meets History
The narrative crosses real tsars, leaders and figures. Telling the documented from the imagined becomes a critical exercise: what is a source? What can fiction do — and what can it not?
The state and freedom
From Ivan the Terrible to today: empire, serfdom and its abolition, the revolutions of 1917, the Soviet century — a concrete way into the history of a nation and into media literacy.
Narrative vs. source
Set an excerpt against a period document (a ukase, an imperial manifesto, a speech): what fiction adds, omits, interprets — and why.
The office and the person
Debate what a role demands and what it changes in the one who holds it. Does power change the person?
Writing workshop
Give voice to a consciousness that crosses a studied era: adopt an internal point of view, write History from within.
The state and freedom
Follow, reign by reign, the tension between the state that gathers and the freedom that resists — a thread for thinking about five centuries of Russian history, without judging it from today.
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