The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

Sandro from Chegem 53 Ivan IV, The Terrible 52, 59, 84, 118 Ivanov, Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich

Armored Train 14 – 69 47

Jakobson, Roman Osipovich 15, 222 jester: see fools

Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich 27,

87–88, 94, 106–07, 122, 149, 238

History of the Russian State 100

Letters of a Russian Traveler 94

“Poor Liza” 94–97, 107, 145, 245

Kataev, Evgeny Petrovich: see Ilf and

Petrov Kataev, Valentin Petrovich 25 Time, Forward! 25

Kharms, Daniil Ivanovich

Elizabeth Bam 53 Khlebnikov, Velemir Vladimirovich

81 Knyazhnin, Yakov Borisovich 97, 108,

120 Misfortune from a Coach 89–90 Korolenko, Vladimir Glaktionovich

29 Koshchey the Deathless 66, 67–70, 74,

205 Kurbsky, Prince Andrei Mikhailovich

52

Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich 12, 13, 17, 99, 100, 106, 109–10, 112, 113, 154, 203, 217, 245 Hero of Our Time, A 109 “Prophet” 110 Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich Enchanted Wanderer, The 46 Left-Handed Craftsman, The [Levsha] 53 Lipovetsky, Mark Naumovich 15 Lotman, Yury Mikhailovich 15, 18, 29,

76–79, 179–81, 185 Lukin, Vladimir Ignatievich 83

magic 24, 39, 61, 70, 74, 75–79, 105,

135, 142, 176, 177 Mandelstam, Nadezhda Yakovlevna 9 Mandelstam, Osip Emiliovich 184, 218 “Stalin Epigram” 52 Marshak, Samuil Yakovlevich 207 Marxism, communism, socialism 17, 25, 26, 36, 39, 130, 136, 191–219, 220–30, 231, 236, 246 mask: see face Mayakovsky, Vladimir 7, 8, 201

Bedbug, The 57, 201 Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich 134, 166–67, 169 Anti-Christ. Peter and Alexis 29 “L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” 166

Index 289

“On Reasons for the Decline of

Contemporary Russian

Literature, and on its New

Tendencies” 166 Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emiliovich 189,

194,218,221 miracle 8, 23, 24, 38, 40, 42, 56, 60, 61,

63, 71, 75-79, 129, 136, 173,

176-77, 210, 219 Mirsky, Prince Dmitri Petrovich

Svyatopolk: History of Russian

Literature, A 23 Moscow, myth of 1, 20, 27, 43, 77, 126,

171, 176-77, 183-87, 188, 189,

228 Mother Earth 8, 26, 61, 68, 71, 72

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 4, 82, 105, 123, 238

Nikolai Gogol 117

poshlost', concept of 49-50 Napoleonic hero 54-56 Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseevich 153-55

On the Weather 154-55 Nestor, The Chronicler

“Life of St. Theodosius” 65 Nevsky, Alexander 59, 65-66, 73 Nicholas I, Tsar 53, 99, 102, 110, 125,

184,230 Nicholas II, Tsar 63, 125, 132 nihilistic hero 11, 55, 111, 112, 121,

246 Novikov, Nikolai Ivanovich 84, 100

Olesha, Yury Karlovich

Envy 57 ostranenie: see estrangement Otrepiev, Grigory (False Dmitry,

Dmitry Samozvanets, Dmitry the Pretender) 102,106,118,119,121

Panin, Count Nikita Ivanovich 86 Pashkevich, Vasily Alexeyevich 89 Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 195, 220, 223-24

Doctor Zhivago 223 Appended “Poems of Yury Zhivago” “Hamlet” 217-18 Hamlet 218 Paul I, Tsar 63

Pelevin, Viktor Olegovich 237, 241–44 Chapayev and Emptiness [Eng.

Buddha’s Little Finger] 242-43 “Life and Adventures of Shed

Number XII, The” 241 Life of Insects, The 241 Omon Ra 28, 242 Yellow Arrow, The 242 Peshkov, Aleksei Maksimovich: see

Gorky, Maksim Peter I, The Great 11,27,29,39,59, 63, 73, 75, 80, 81, 84, 87, 93, 100, 102, 103, 180, 181,238 Peter III, Tsar 100,118,121 Petersburg, myth of 1, 20, 28, 30, 43, 114, 126, 135, 140, 165, 171, 179-83, 184 Petrovskii-Sitniyanovich, Samuil Emel'yanovich: see Polotsky Simeon Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila Stepanova 224, 230-36, 238, 240, 246 “Our Crowd” 232 Three Girls in Blue 232 Time: Night, The 233-36 Pilnyak, Boris (pseudonym of Boris

Andreyevich Vogau) 22 Platonov, Andrei Platonovich 20, 211-17,218,221 Dzhan 213 “For Future Use” 203 Foundation Pit, The 212-17,242 “Homecoming, The” 212 Pleshcheyev, Aleksei Nikolaevich 157 Polevoy, Boris Nikolaevich: Story of a

Real Man 242 Polotsky, Simeon (real name Samuil Emel'yanovich Petrovskii-Sitniyanovich): “Merchant Class, The” 51

290 Index

Praudin, Anatoly Arkadievich 211 pravednik/pravednitsa [righteous

person] 29, 35–39, 41, 43, 45, 56,

133, 158, 170, 230 pretendership 102, 106, 118–23 Prigov, Dmitry 17, 247–48 Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich 3, 8, 66,

88, 196 Story of a Real Man 242 War and Peace 3 Pugachov, Emelyan Ivanovich 80, 102,

106, 118, 119, 121–22 Pushkin, Aleksandr 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13,

17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 55, 88, 93, 94,

96, 97, 99, 100, 101–11, 112, 113,

114–15, 117–24, 126, 128, 137,

140, 141, 149, 151, 152, 154, 165,

167, 169, 181, 182, 188, 195, 203,

217, 230, 231, 245 Boris Godunov 40, 41, 102, 106, 118,

119 Bronze Horseman, The 43, 123,

181–82, 237 Captain’s Daughter, The 102, 106,