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St. Martin’s Press, 1998). Wilson, A. N., Tolstoy: A Biography (New York: Norton, 2001).

Russian literary criticism for the non-specialist relevant to the framework of this book

Bakhtin, Mikhail, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, trans.

Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson (Austin: University of Texas Press,

1981). Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, trans. Caryl Emerson (Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press, 1984). Balina, Marina, Nancy Condee, and Evgeny Dobrenko, eds., Endquote: Sots-Art

Literature and Soviet Grand Style (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University

Press, 2000). Brandist, Craig, The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics (London:

Pluto Press, 2002). Epstein, Mikhail N., After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and

Contemporary Russian Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts

Press, 1995). Erlich, Victor, Russian Formalism: History, Doctrine [1955], 3rd edn. (New Haven:

Yale University Press, 1980). Jakobson, Roman, Language in Literature, ed. Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen

Rudy (New York: Belknap, 1990). Lipovetsky, Mark, with Eliot Borenstein, eds., Russian Postmodernist Fiction:

Dialogue with Chaos (Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1999). Lotman, Yu. M., and Boris Uspensky, The Semiotics of Russian Culture, trans.

N. F. C. Owen, ed. Ann Shukman (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan

Slavic Department, 1984). Shklovsky, Viktor, Theory of Prose, trans. Benjamin Sher (Normal, IL: Dalkey

Archive, 2000).

Index

Afanasiev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich 68,

192 Akhmatova, Anna Andreyevna 30, 192,233,236 “Requiem” 217,218,233,235 Akimov, Nikolai Pavlovich 210, 211 Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich

Family Chronicle 45 Akunin, Boris (pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili) 220, 237, 243-47 Azazel' [Eng. The Winter Queen]

97, 244, 245-46 Seagull, The. A Comedy and its Continuation 246 Alexander I, Tsar 24, 99, 100 Alexander II, Tsar 12, 56, 63, 125,

170 Alexander III, Tsar 132 Avvakum Petrovich, Protopop “The Life of Archpriest Avvakum, Written by Himself” 45

Baba Yaga 66, 67, 68-70, 84, 122, 188,

227,236 Babel, Isaak Emmanuilovich 48,195,

201,221 Red Cavalry 47 Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich 15,

17-18, 19, 34, 134, 136, 143, 153,

182, 199,230, 249 Behrs, Sofya Andreyevna (later S. A.

Tolstaya) 151 Belinsky, Vissarion Grigorievich 14,

126, 199

Bely, Andrei (pseudonym of Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich) 166, 172, 173, 179, 181, 189, 204 Petersburg 17, 171–72, 174, 178, 181, 183, 226 Berdyaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich 241

The Russian Idea 22 binary oppositions (as a cultural category) 18–22, 143, 164, 175, 183, 192–95, 223 city vs. countryside 26–30, 43, 135,

141, 187–88, 189, 212 civilian vs. military 46, 47, 116, 140,

150 empire vs. hearth 32–33 free vs. unfree 45–46, 104–06, 127,

130, 145, 150, 192, 194 poetry vs. prose 4–7, 18, 106–07,

127, 153–55 Russia vs. West 76, 80–97, 110, 126,

169 sacred vs. demonic 30–32, 35–36,

73, 76, 119–21, 172, 175 settlers vs. wanderers 46–47, 213 Bitov, Andrei Georgievich 236–38

Pushkin House 17, 236–38 Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich 182–83, 241 “Intelligentsia and Revolution, The”

182 Twelve, The 182–83, 217, 243 Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirievich 44

Prince Igor 44 Brodsky, Joseph Aleksandrovich 220

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286 Index

Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich 243 Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich: see Bely,

Andrei Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich 16, 74,

166, 185–87, 189, 192, 195, 221 “Adventures of Chichikov, The”

185,202

“Diaboliad” 185

Fatal Eggs, The 186

Heart of a Dog 186, 241

Master and Margarita, The 37–38, 48, 142, 145, 166, 171, 175–79, 183, 185–87, 197, 242–43

Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich 221

Byronic hero 46, 54, 55, 109

Catherine I, Empress 93

Catherine II, The Great 80, 84–86, 94,

100, 106, 125, 201, 221 censorship 2, 3, 7, 24, 28, 125, 171,

193–98, 204, 206, 207, 211, 220,

238 Chaadaev, Pyotr Yakovlevich 4 Chapayev, Vasily 243 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 12, 14, 20,

22, 27–28, 112–13, 115, 118, 125,

127, 132, 133, 149, 155–65, 169,

186,199, 207, 211, 221, 224, 233,

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