1) Read Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (1842) and write a one-page paper in which you explain why this novel had such an impact on Russian society when it was published.
2) https://www.ctevans.net/Nvcc/HIS241/Assignments/Belinskii.html
3) Watch either The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) or The Charge of the Light Brigade(1968) and write a one-page paper assessing the film's historical accuracy. I suggest the 1936 film.