Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars

22. See G. Vasilich, Imperator Aleksandr I i starets Fedor Kuz’mich [Emperor Alexander I and the elder Fedor Kuzmich] (Moscow, 1911); Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, Legenda o konchine imperatora Aleksandra I v Sibiri v obraze startsa Fedora Kuz’micha [Legend of the death of Alexander I in Siberia under the identity of the elder Fedor Kuzmich] (St. Petersburg, 1907); K. V. Kudriashov, Aleksandr I i taina Fedora Kuz’micha [Alexander I and the mystery of Fedor Kuzmich] (Petrograd, 1923); L. Liubimov, Taina imperatora Aleksandra I [Mystery of Emperor Alexander I] (Paris, 1938); N. Ia. Eidel’man, Iz potaennoi istorii Rossii XVIII–XIX vekov [From the secret history of Russia of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries] (Moscow, 1993); K. V. Chistov, Russkie narodnye sotsial’no-utopicheskie legendy XVII–XIX vv. [Russian popular utopian legends of the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries] (Moscow, 1967); Dva monarkha [Two monarchs] (Moscow, 1991); Aleksandr Arkhangel’skii, Aleksandr I [Alexander I] (Moscow, 2000).

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Nicholas I and Pushkin

1. Quoted from the collection 14 dekabria 1825 goda i ego istolkovateli [14 December 1825 and its exponents] (Moscow, 1994), p. 332.

2. Ibid., p. 336.

3. Perepiska A. S. Pushkina. [Correspondence of A. S. Pushkin], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1982), p. 112.

4. Quoted from Leonid Vyskochkov, Nikolai I [Nicholas I] (Moscow, 2003), p. 125.

5. Quoted from N. Eidel’man, Pushkin. Iz biografii i tvorchestva. 1826–1837 [Pushkin: From his biography and works, 1826–1837] (Moscow, 1987), p. 9.

6. Ibid., pp. 33, 35.

7. A. S. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of A. S. Pushkin by his contemporaries], in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1974), p. 122.

8. Eidel’man, Pushkin, p. 62.

9. Ibid., p. 63.

10. On this, see Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich i Stalin: Khudozhnik i tsar’ (Moscow, 2004), pp. 59–79. English translation, Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator (New York, 2004).

11. A. V. Anikin, Muza i mamona. Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskie motivy u Pushkina [Muse and Mammon: Socioeconomic motifs in Pushkin] (Moscow, 1989), p. 180.

12. Perepiska Pushkina, vol. 2, p. 120.

13. N.I. Grech, Zapiski o moei zhizni [Notes on my life] (Moscow and Leningrad, 1930), p. 704.

14. Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], vols. 16–18 (Moscow, 1934), pp. 101, 105.

15. Pisateli-dekabristy v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of the Decembrist writers by their contemporaries], vol. 2 (Moscow, 1980), p. 247.

16. Iu. M. Lotman, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Biografiia pisatelia [Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin: Biography of a writer] (Leningrad, 1981), p. 135.

17. T. J. Binyon, Pushkin: A Biography (New York, 2002), p. 546.

18. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 40 (1999), p. 84.

19. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov, vol. 2, p. 192.

20. Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author.

21. Quoted from R. G. Skrynnikov, Pushkin. Taina gibeli [Pushkin: The mystery of his death] (St. Petersburg, 2005), p. 319.

22. Eidel’man, Pushkin, p. 400.

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Lermontov and Briullov

1. A. S. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of A. S. Pushkin by his contemporaries], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1974), p. 122.

2. Quoted from V. A. Zhukovskii—kritik [V. A. Zhukovsky, critic] (Moscow, 1985), p. 246.

3. Ibid., pp. 251–52.

4. See the collection Rossiiskie konservatory [Russian conservatives] (Moscow, 1997), p. 105; and the collection Kontekst—1989. Literaturno-teoreticheskie issledovaniia [Context 1989: Studies in literary theory] (Moscow, 1989), pp. 10, 38.

5. Aleksandr Vasil’evich Nikitenko, Zapiski i dnevnik [Notes and journal], in three volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 2004), p. 362.