Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars

7. Quoted from V bor’be za vlast’. Stranitsy politicheskoi istorii Rossii XVIII veka [Struggle for power: Pages from the political history of eighteenth-century Russia] (Moscow, 1988), p. 323.

8. Ibid., pp. 363–64.

9. N. M. Karamzin, Zapiska o drevnei i novoi Rossii v ee politicheskom i grazhdanskom otnosheniiakh [The memoir on ancient and modern Russia in political and civic aspects] (Moscow, 1991), p. 46.

10. Quoted from S. F. Platonov, Lektsii po russkoi istorii [Lectures on Russian history] (Moscow, 1993), p. 649.

11. See Andrei Zorin, Kormia dvuglavogo orla … Literatura i gosudarstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v poslednei treti XVIII—pervoi treti XIX veka [Feeding the double-headed eagle … Literature and official ideology in Russia from the last third of the eighteenth century to the first third of the nineteenth] (Moscow, 2001).

12. Istoriia russkoi zhurnalistiki XVIII–XIX vekov [History of Russian journalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries] (Moscow, 1973), p. 101.

13. Karamzin, p. 48.

14. Quoted from Afanas’ev, p. 131.

15. I. A. Krylov v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of I. A. Krylov by his contemporaries] (Moscow, 1982), p. 242.

CHAPTER 5

Alexander I, Zhukovsky, and Young Pushkin

1. Andrei Zorin, Kormia dvuglavogo orla … Literatura i gosudartstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v poslednei treti XVIII—pervoi treti XIX veka [Feeding the double-headed eagle … Literature and official ideology in Russia from the last third of the eighteenth century to the first third of the nineteenth] (Moscow, 2001), p. 269.

2. Ibid., p. 272.

3. Quoted from Russkie memuary. Izbrannye stranitsy. 1800–1825 gg. [Russian memoirs: Selected pages, 1800–1825] (Moscow, 1989), pp. 453, 471.

4. Quoted from Viktor Afanas’ev, Zhukovskii [Zhukovsky] (Moscow, 1986), p. 175.

5. Perepiska A. S. Pushkina. [Correspondence of A. S. Pushkin], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1982), p. 379.

6. A. S. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of A. S. Pushkin by his contemporaries], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1974), p. 77.

7. Ibid., p. 88.

8. Ibid., p. 91.

9. T. J. Binyon, Pushkin: A Biography (New York, 2002), p. 31.

10. B. Tomashevskii, Pushkin, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1990), p. 61.

11. Ibid., p. 11.

12. Quoted from N. Ia. Eidel’man, Tvoi XVIII vek. Prekrasen nash soiuz … [Your eighteenth century, How splendid is our union …] (Moscow, 1991).

13. Solomon Volkov, Dialogi s Iosifom Brodskim [Dialogues with Joseph Brodsky] (Moscow, 1998), p. 307.

14. Quoted from S. F. Platonov, Lektsii po russkoi istorii [Lectures on Russian history], p. 668.

15. Quoted from Rossiiskie samoderzhtsy. 1801–1917 [Russian tsars, 1801–1917] (Moscow, 1994), p. 75.

16. A. S. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov, vol. 2, p. 134.

17. Ibid., p. 98.

18. Ibid., p. 103.

19. Ibid., p. 208.

20. Ibid., pp. 221–22.

21. Quoted from Rossiiskie samoderzhtsy, p. 83.