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
Krylov, Ivan (1769–1844), poet 36
L
Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie-Louise Prat de 6
laughter 151
Lawrence, T. E. 122
Lay of Igor’s Campaign (twelfth-century epic) 127
Layton, Susan 120, 126
Ledkovsky, Marina 113
Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924), Soviet leader 44, 135
Lermontov, Mikhail (1814–41), poet and novelist 50, 52, 53, 59, 79, 84, 120, 124
Leskov, Nikolay (1831–95), prose writer 146–7
Letkova, Ekaterina (1856–1937) 131
literary journals 36, 37–8, 42
Lomonosov, Mikhailo (1711–65), scientist and poet 36, 41, 43, 52, 89, 139
Lotman, Yury (1922–1993), semiotician 56, 79
M
Mandelstam, Natalya (1899–1980), memoirist 109
Mandelstam, Osip (1891–1938), poet 8, 27–8, 63, 88, 89, 112–13, 145
Mann, Thomas 92
Mansfield, Katherine 6
Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Aleksandr (1797–1837), prose writer 120
Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893–1930), poet 21, 29, 64, 85–7, 90, 111
metaphysical poetry 140
Mickiewicz, Adam 40
Mirsky, Dmitry Svyatopolk (1890–1939), critic 1, 52
morality, literature and 88–91
Munro, Alice 6
Musorgsky, Modest (1839–81), composer 55, 64
N
Nabokov, Vladimir (1899–1977), novelist v, 18, 21, 35, 45, 91, 92, 112, 115, 142, 144
négritude 127
Nekrasov, Nikolay (1821–77) 41, 45, 81, 130
New Literary Review 116
Nietzsche, Friedrich 4
Nikitin, Afanasy (d. 1472), travel writer 126
O
O’Faolain, Sean 6
Olesha, Yury (1899–1960), prose writer 92, 144
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr (1823–86), dramatist 23, 67
Ovid 13, 38
P
Paine, Thomas (Tom) 43