Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Alexander I (reigned 1801–25), Emperor of Russia 13

Aksakov, Konstantin (1817–60), Slavophile thinker 150

Aleshkovsky, Yuz (b. 1929), novelist 136

Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr (1862–1938), prose writer 93

Annenkov, Pavel (1812 or 1813–87), critic 77

Annensky, Innokenty (1855 or 1856–1909), poet 62

Antokolsky, Pavel (1896–1978), poet 91

Apollo (literary journal) 37–8, 42

Austen, Jane 43, 102

B

Bakhtin, Mikhail (1895–1975), cultural critic 85, 149

Baratynsky, Evgeny (1800–44), poet 110, 140

Barrett, Thomas 122

Batyushkov, Konstantin (1787–1855), poet 110

Beckett, Samuel 133

Belinsky, Vissarion (1811–48), critic 39, 41, 47, 76, 81, 139

Bely, Andrey (1880–1934), novelist and poet 16, 62

Bethea, David 145

Bishop, Elizabeth 28

Blake, William 43

Blok, Aleksandr (1881–1921), poet 59, 111, 126, 128, 145

Boborykin, Petr (1836–1921), prose writer 93

body, theology of 149

Bowen, Elizabeth 6

Boym, Svetlana (b. 1959), critic 92

Brik, Osip (1888–1945), critic 139

Brodsky, Joseph (1940–96), poet v, 5, 8, 71–3, 91, 144

Brontë, Emily 43

Bryusov, Valery (1874–1924), poet 82, 132

Buchan, John 120

Buck, Pearl S. 5

Bulgakov, Mikhail (1891–1940), novelist and dramatist 29, 89, 143–4

Bulgarin, Faddey (1789–1859), novelist, journalist, and spy 80

Bunina, Anna (1774–1829), poet 114

Burlyuk, David (1882–1967), poet 93

Burney, Frances (Fanny) 43

Burns, Robert 43

C

Calvino, Italo 9

canon, the literary v, 32–60, 110

Carver, Raymond 6

Catherine II (reigned 1762–96), Empress of Russia 42

Catullus 38

censorship 33, 51, 73, 74–5, 83

Chateaubriand, François-René de 6, 119

Chayanov, Aleksandr (1888–1937), prose writer 148, 150

Chekhov, Anton (1860–1904), writer and dramatist 4, 6, 41, 64, 69, 79, 94, 131, 151

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay (1828–89), critic 41, 42, 142

Church Slavonic 7, 139

Circassians 122

Cixous, Hélène 108

Clark, Katerina 90

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 57

Constant, Benjamin 6, 124

The Contemporary (literary journal) 36, 45

Cossacks 122, 125

D

Dante 5

Derzhavin, Gavrila (1743–1816), poet 12, 19, 110, 139, 144

Dickens, Charles 5, 43

Dmitrieva, Valentina (1859–1947), prose writer 131

Dobrolyubov, Nikolay (1836–61), critic 41, 81, 84

Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav (1875–1957), painter 55

Dolgorukaya, Natalya (1714–71), memoirist 65

Donne, John 5

Dostoevsky, Fedor (1821–81), novelist 4, 5, 9, 23, 25, 30, 35, 40, 62, 68, 90, 96, 110, 141–2, 143

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks (1877–1926), founder of the Soviet secret police 25, 87

E

Eikhenbaum, Boris (1886–1959), Formalist critic 111, 132

Eisenstein, Sergey (1898–1948), film director 55, 67

Eliot, George 43

Eliot, T. S. 5, 8, 28

emigre literature 45, 83

Erofeev, Venedikt (1938–90), prose writer 75, 96

Erofeev, Viktor (b. 1947), prose writer and critic

Esenin, Sergey (1895–1925), poet 29, 135

ethnography 131

Eurasianism 127

F

Fadeev, Aleksandr (1901–56), prose writer 23, 25

Flaubert, Gustave 5

folklore 129, 134–5

Fonvizin, Denis (1745–92), dramatist 64

Ford, Richard 6

Formalism 52, 58, 110, 132–3

Forsh, Olga (1873–1961), prose writer 132

France, Peter 72, 118

Frost, Robert 28

G

Galina, G. (Glafira Mamoshina) 103

Garshin, Vsevolod (1855–88), prose writer 131

Gasparov, Boris, critic 65

Gasparov, Mikhail (b. 1935), critic v, 117

Gertsyk, Adelaida (1874–1925), poet 115, 135

Ginzburg, Evgeniya (1904–77), memoirist 109

Ginzburg, Lidiya (1902–90), critic 64

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 40, 65, 115

Gogol, Nikolay (1809–52), prose writer and dramatist 23, 41, 50, 64, 68, 81, 85, 122, 140

Golovina, Alla (1909–87), poet 115

Goncharov, Ivan (1812–91), prose writer, author of Oblomov 33, 84

Gorky, Maksim (1868–1936), prose writer 23, 41

graphomania 92–4

Grigoriev, Apollon (1822–64), poet and critic 81

Groys, Boris, critic 89

Gumilyov, Nikolay (1886–1921), poet 112

H

Harris, Jane 152

Haworth 19, 26

Heine, Heinrich 65

Heldt, Barbara 113

Herodotus 38

Herzen, Aleksandr (1812–70), radical thinker 64, 111

Zakharina-Herzen, Natalya (1817–52), memoirist 111

Holmes, Richard 57

Hopkins, Gerald Manley 43

Horace 8, 12

Hughes, Ted 9

Hutchings, Stephen 149

I

Ivanov, Vyacheslav (1866–1949), poet 103, 140

J

Jakobson, Roman (1896–1982), linguist, Formalist critic 7

Johnson, Samuel 43

Joyce, James 5

K

Kalinin, Mikhail (1875–1944), Bolshevik leader 41

Karadžic, Vuk 40

Karavaeva, Anna (1893–1979), Socialist Realist writer 89

Karamzin, Nikolay (1766–1826), prose writer and historian 43, 56, 63, 65, 99, 126, 129

Kharms, Daniil (1905–42), poet and prose writer 53, 89, 133, 142

Kheraskov, Mikhail (1733–1807), poet and dramatist 63

Khodasevich, Vladislav (1886–1939), poet and critic 88

Khomyakov, Aleksey (1804–60), poet and Slavophile 141

Kingslake, Alexander William 118

Kipling, Rudyard 120

Kiprensky, Orest (1782–1836), painter 3

Kireevsky, Ivan (1806–56), Slavophile thinker 150

Klyuev, Nikolay (1884–1937), poet 57, 135

Knyazhnin, Yakov (1742–91), poet and dramatist 64

Koltonovskaya, Elena (1870–1952), critic 109

Koltsov, Aleksey (1809–42), poet 135

Komissarzhevskaya, Vera (1864–1910), actress 104

The Koran 98

Korolenko, Vladimir (1853–1921), prose writer 131

‘K. R.’ (Konstantin Romanov 1858–1916), poet 103

Kruchenykh, Aleksey (1886–1968), poet 93