5. M. I. Glinka, p. 26.
6. Letopis’ zhizni i tvorchestva M. Glinki [Chronicle of the life and work of M. Glinka], in two parts, part 1 (Leningrad, 1978), p. 88.
7. M. Glinka, Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska [Literary works and correspondence], vol. 1 (Moscow, 1973), p. 268.
8. Ibid., p. 266.
9. Ibid., p. 267.
10. Ibid.
11. Quoted from V. A. Sollogub, Povesti. Vospominaniia [Novellas, reminiscences] (Leningrad, 1988), p. 576.
12. Quoted from T. Livanova, Vl. Protopopov, Glinka, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1955), p. 176.
13. V. F. Odoevskii, Izbrannye muzykal’no-kriticheskie stat’i[Selected musical criticism] (Moscow-Leningrad, 1951), p. 31.
14. Glinka, vol. 1, p. 275.
15. Quoted from A. Gozenpud, Russkii opernyi teatr XIX veka (1836–1856) [Russian opera of the nineteenth century (1836–1856)] (Leningrad, 1969), p. 37.
16. Ibid., p. 69.
17. Quoted from V. S. Kliuchevskii, Sochineniia [Works], in nine volumes, vol. 3 (Moscow, 1988), p. 62.
18. Ibid., p. 308.
19. Zhitie Avvakuma i drugie ego sochineniia [Avvakum’s Life and other works] (Moscow, 1991), p. 62.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., p. 52.
22. Ibid., p. 54.
23. Ibid., p. 396.
24. Ibid.
25. Quoted from N.B. Golikova, Politicheskie protsessy pri Petre I po materialam Preobrazhenskogo prikaza [Political processes under Peter I from materials of the Preobrazhensky office] (Moscow, 1957), p. 169.
26. Quoted from Utverzhdenie dinastii. Istoriia Rossii i doma Romanovykh v memuarakh sovremennikov XVII–XX vv. [Assertion of the dynasty: The history of Russia and the House of Romanov in the memoirs of contemporaries, XVII–XX centuries] (Moscow, 1997), p. 288.
27. Kliuchevskii, vol. 3, p. 264.
28. N. A. Dobroliubov, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [Complete collected works], in six volumes, vol. 3 (Moscow, 1936), p. 195.
29. Quoted from I. E. Berenbaum, Knizhnyi Peterburg [Literary St. Petersburg] (Moscow, 1980), p. 12.
30. Podlinnye anekdoty o Petre Velikom, sobrannye Yakovom Shtelinym [True anecdotes about Peter the Great, collected by Jacob Staehlin], part 1, 2nd ed. (Moscow, 1820), p. 208.
31. Abram Efros, Dva veka russkogo iskusstva [Two centuries of Russian art] (Moscow, 1969), p. 38.
32. Quoted from Pervye khudozhniki Peterburga [First artists of St. Petersburg] (Leningrad, 1984), p. 98.
33. Ibid., p. 123.
34. Ibid., p. 126.
35. Panegiricheskaia literatura petrovskogo vremeni [Panegyric literature of the Petrine era] (Moscow, 1979), p. 279.
36. Quoted from Solomon Volkov, Istoriia kul’tury Sankt-Peterburga s osnovaniia do nashikh dnei [History of the culture of St. Petersburg from its founding to the present] (Moscow, 2001), p. 9. English translation: St. Petersburg: A Cultural History (New York, 1995).
CHAPTER 2
Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov
1. V. A. Zhukovskii, Estetika i kritika [Aesthetics and criticism] (Moscow, 1985), pp. 204, 206.
2. Quoted from Antiokh Kantemir, Sobranie stikhotvorenii [Collected poems] (Leningrad, 1956), p. 31.
3. Quoted from Evgenii Lebedev, Lomonosov (Moscow, 1990), p. 28.
4. Ibid., p. 99.
5. I.S. Barkov, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii [Complete collected poems] (St. Petersburg, 2005), p. 31.
CHAPTER 3
Catherine the Great and the Culture of Her Era
1. I.S. Barkov, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii [Complete collected poems] (St. Petersburg, 2005), p. 563.
2. M. N. Pokrovskii, Izbrannye proizvedeniia v chetyrekh knigakh [Selected works in four volumes], vol. 3 (Moscow, 1967), p. 115.
3. See A. Kamenskii, Pod seniiu Ekateriny … [Under the protection of Catherine …] (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 122.
4. Zapiski imperatritsy Ekateriny Vtoroi [Notes of Empress Catherine II] (St. Petersburg, 1907), pp. 233–34.
5. Quoted from A. Kaganovich, “Mednyi Vsadnik”: Istoriia sozdaniia monumenta [“The Bronze Horseman”: History of the making of a monument] (Leningrad, 1975), p. 94.
6. P. A. Viazemskii, Stikhotvoreniia. Vospominaniia. Zapisnye knizhki [Poems, memoirs, notebooks] (Moscow, 1988), p. 252.
7. Quoted from V. F. Levinson-Lessing, Istoriia kartinnoi galerei Ermitazha (1764–1917) [History of the Hermitage picture gallery, 1764–1917] (Leningrad, 1985), p. 61.
8. Ibid., p. 74.
9. I. E. Barenbaum, Knizhnyi Peterburg [Literary St. Petersburg] (Moscow, 1980), p. 32.
10. Ibid., p. 74.
11. Quoted from Kamenskii, p. 397.
12. Quoted from N. Eidel’man, Mgnoven’e slavy nastaet [The moment of glory is upon us] (Leningrad, 1989).
13. Russkie memuary. XVIII vek [Russian memoirs, eighteenth century] (Moscow, 1988), p. 133.
14. Quoted from G. R. Derzhavin, Stikhotvoreniia [Poetry] (Leningrad, 1957), p. 32.
15. Russkie memuary, p. 151.
16. Ibid., p. 162.
17. Quoted from V. Khodasevich, Derzhavin [Derzhavin] (Moscow, 1988), p.143.
CHAPTER 4
Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky
1. A. S. Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [Reminiscences of A. S. Pushkin by his contemporaries], in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1974), p. 196.
2. N. M. Karamzin, Pis’ma russkogo puteshestvennika [Letters of a Russian traveler] (Leningrad, 1984), p. 20.
3. Quoted from Viktor Afanas’ev, Zhukovskii [Zhukovsky] (Moscow, 1986), p. 7.
4. Dnevniki V. A. Zhukovskogo [Journals of V. A. Zhukovsky] (St. Petersburg, 1901), p. 27.
5. Quoted from M. I. Bogdanovich, Istoriia tsarstvovaniia imperatora Aleksandra I i Rossiia v ego vremia [History of the reign of Emperor Alexander I and the Russia of his time], vol. 1 (St. Petersburg, 1869), pp. 18–19.
6. Russkie memuary. XVIII vek [Russian memoirs, eighteenth century] (Moscow, 1988), p. 165.
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.