Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars

28. N. A. Dobroliubov, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [Complete collected works], in six volumes, vol. 3 (Moscow, 1936), p. 195.

29. Quoted from I. E. Berenbaum, Knizhnyi Peterburg [Literary St. Petersburg] (Moscow, 1980), p. 12.

30. Podlinnye anekdoty o Petre Velikom, sobrannye Yakovom Shtelinym [True anecdotes about Peter the Great, collected by Jacob Staehlin], part 1, 2nd ed. (Moscow, 1820), p. 208.

31. Abram Efros, Dva veka russkogo iskusstva [Two centuries of Russian art] (Moscow, 1969), p. 38.

32. Quoted from Pervye khudozhniki Peterburga [First artists of St. Petersburg] (Leningrad, 1984), p. 98.

33. Ibid., p. 123.

34. Ibid., p. 126.

35. Panegiricheskaia literatura petrovskogo vremeni [Panegyric literature of the Petrine era] (Moscow, 1979), p. 279.

36. Quoted from Solomon Volkov, Istoriia kul’tury Sankt-Peterburga s osnovaniia do nashikh dnei [History of the culture of St. Petersburg from its founding to the present] (Moscow, 2001), p. 9. English translation: St. Petersburg: A Cultural History (New York, 1995).

CHAPTER 2

Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov

1. V. A. Zhukovskii, Estetika i kritika [Aesthetics and criticism] (Moscow, 1985), pp. 204, 206.

2. Quoted from Antiokh Kantemir, Sobranie stikhotvorenii [Collected poems] (Leningrad, 1956), p. 31.

3. Quoted from Evgenii Lebedev, Lomonosov (Moscow, 1990), p. 28.

4. Ibid., p. 99.

5. I.S. Barkov, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii [Complete collected poems] (St. Petersburg, 2005), p. 31.

CHAPTER 3

Catherine the Great and the Culture of Her Era

1. I.S. Barkov, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii [Complete collected poems] (St. Petersburg, 2005), p. 563.

2. M. N. Pokrovskii, Izbrannye proizvedeniia v chetyrekh knigakh [Selected works in four volumes], vol. 3 (Moscow, 1967), p. 115.

3. See A. Kamenskii, Pod seniiu Ekateriny … [Under the protection of Catherine …] (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 122.

4. Zapiski imperatritsy Ekateriny Vtoroi [Notes of Empress Catherine II] (St. Petersburg, 1907), pp. 233–34.

5. Quoted from A. Kaganovich, “Mednyi Vsadnik”: Istoriia sozdaniia monumenta [“The Bronze Horseman”: History of the making of a monument] (Leningrad, 1975), p. 94.

6. P. A. Viazemskii, Stikhotvoreniia. Vospominaniia. Zapisnye knizhki [Poems, memoirs, notebooks] (Moscow, 1988), p. 252.

7. Quoted from V. F. Levinson-Lessing, Istoriia kartinnoi galerei Ermitazha (1764–1917) [History of the Hermitage picture gallery, 1764–1917] (Leningrad, 1985), p. 61.

8. Ibid., p. 74.

9. I. E. Barenbaum, Knizhnyi Peterburg [Literary St. Petersburg] (Moscow, 1980), p. 32.

10. Ibid., p. 74.

11. Quoted from Kamenskii, p. 397.

12. Quoted from N. Eidel’man, Mgnoven’e slavy nastaet [The moment of glory is upon us] (Leningrad, 1989).

13. Russkie memuary. XVIII vek [Russian memoirs, eighteenth century] (Moscow, 1988), p. 133.

14. Quoted from G. R. Derzhavin, Stikhotvoreniia [Poetry] (Leningrad, 1957), p. 32.

15. Russkie memuary, p. 151.

16. Ibid., p. 162.

17. Quoted from V. Khodasevich, Derzhavin [Derzhavin] (Moscow, 1988), p.143.

CHAPTER 4

Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky

1. A. S. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of A. S. Pushkin by his contemporaries], in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1974), p. 196.

2. N. M. Karamzin, Pis’ma russkogo puteshestvennika [Letters of a Russian traveler] (Leningrad, 1984), p. 20.

3. Quoted from Viktor Afanas’ev, Zhukovskii [Zhukovsky] (Moscow, 1986), p. 7.

4. Dnevniki V. A. Zhukovskogo [Journals of V. A. Zhukovsky] (St. Petersburg, 1901), p. 27.

5. Quoted from M. I. Bogdanovich, Istoriia tsarstvovaniia imperatora Aleksandra I i Rossiia v ego vremia [History of the reign of Emperor Alexander I and the Russia of his time], vol. 1 (St. Petersburg, 1869), pp. 18–19.

6. Russkie memuary. XVIII vek [Russian memoirs, eighteenth century] (Moscow, 1988), p. 165.