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Acton, Lord 123 The Blackamoor of Peter the Great 24, 90, Akhmatova, Anna 67, 212, 213–15 92, 119, 123, 126, 127 Aldanov, Mark 178 personal connections 92, 93–95 Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 4, 13, 14, plans for the novel 95 16, 17, 32, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, role of narrator 90 111, 113, 125, 136, 147 Blagoi, Dmitrii 205 Anacreon 51 Blok, Alexander 175, 202, 214 Apollo 27, 28 Bogdanovich, Ippolit 87 Arakcheev, Count Aleksei 14 Boris Godunov 17, 40, 57, 59, 60, 62, Arzamas 13, 26, 28, 39, 132, 134, 145 64–65, 69, 70, 71–72, 109, 118, 120, Asaﬁev, B. V. 160, 172 123, 151, 161 Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Bagritskii, Eduard 208 Otrepiev (Komediia) 57, 62, 63, 71 Bakhtin, Mikhail, dialogism and the guilt of 60, 162 novel 6, 45, 46 metrics 61, 222 Balakirev, Mily 167 parallels with vertep 64 ballet, settings of Pushkinian plots 58, 159, planned continuation of 62–63 178, 202 publication history 62 Bal’mont, Konstantin 178 Pushkin’s political stance at the time of Basmanov, General 61 writing 110 Batiushkov, Konstantin 13, 145, 146, reception 64, 123 147 Borodin, Alexander 167 inﬂuence 27, 28 Bortnianskii, Dmitrii 199 Bayley, John 127 Brahms, Johannes 166, 170 Belinsky, Vissarion 41, 44, 54, 144 Britten, Benjamin 160 Bem, A. L. 181, 186 Brodsky, Joseph 1, 215 Benckendorff, Count Alexander 18, 19, The Bronze Horseman (Mednyi vsadnik) 4, 111, 119 20, 75, 78, 82–86, 119, 120, 127, 151, Berg, Mikhail 216 219 Beseda Society (Archaists) 13 ambivalent attitude to Peter the Great 86 Bestuzhev, Alexander 133, 139, 146, 147, elegiac conclusion 86 149 metrics 221 as correspondent 133, 139 Bulgakov, Fr Sergii 183–84 Bible 17, 83, 84, 85 Bulgakov, Mikhail 161, 190, 213–14 Bildungsroman 119 Bulgarin, Faddei 103, 144, 149, 150, 151, Bitov, Andrei 192, 215–16 155, 197 Bitsilli, P. M. 182, 183 Bunin, Ivan 178, 202 Bizet, Georges 171 burlesque poetry 41

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord 5, 6, 11, 14, Diderot, Denis 41 15, 30, 31, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, Dmitriev, Ivan 12 48–49, 50, 53, 78–79, 81, 82, 83, 118, Dmitrii of Uglich, Tsarevich 60, 67, 71 147 Dmitrii, the Pretender (Grishka Beppo 17 Otrepiev) 62, 63 Childe-Harold’s Pilgrimage 5, 41, 42, 46 Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav 181 Don Juan 15, 41, 121 Dostoevsky, Fedor 1, 92, 161, 162, 176, Parisina 81 183, 202, 208 drama Card, James 197 dialogue (narrative poetry) 59–60 Catherine II, the Great 2, 3, 4, 20, 115, 117, expectations of spectators 59 120, 121, 125, 126, 196 stage comedy 58 censorship 6, 35, 62, 107, 115, 117, 121, stage direction 57, 59, 62, 79, 120 125, 133, 144, 153 stageability 57, 60, 64, 71 Cervantes, Miguel de 41 theatrical vision 57, 58–59, 70 Chappe d’Auteroche, abbe´ 126 verse comedy 57, 58 Charles XII 121 Druk, Vladimir 216 Chateaubriand, Renede´ 147, 154 duelling 4, 47–48, 49, 66, 97, 99, 100 Chekhov, Anton 92, 202 Durova, Nadezhda 151–54 Chernyshevskii, Nikolai 54, 185, 203 Chopin, Fred´ eric´ 15 Efimov, N. N. 200 Chulkov, Georgii 180 Efros, Abram 194 class equality 106, 109, 116 Eidel’man, Natan 111 classical antiquity 81, 82, 83, 87, 88, 108 Eikhenbaum, Boris 175 Cocteau, Jean 179 elegiac poetry 47, 89, 150, 169 Coleridge, S. T. 36, 37 Elena Pavlovna, Grand Duchess 121 colloquialisms 85, 138 Enlightenment 63, 109, 112, 122, 140 Columbus 148 epic 89 comedy 61, 63 epic simile 81, 83, 88 Conceptualist poetry 216–18 and figurative language 79, 84, 88, 136 Constant, Benjamin 106, 113, 147 national epic 75, 78, 86 Adolphe 47, 49, 140, 151 epitaph poetry 34 Constantine, Grand Duke, brother of Ermolov, General Aleksei 108, 109 Alexander I 17 European revolutions 107–09 Cui, Cesar´ 161, 167 Evgenii Onegin 5, 13, 16, 17, 139, 143, 151, 160–62, 181, 192, 195 Dahl, Vladimir 127 beginning 15, 43 d’Anthes,` Baron George Charles 21–23, 24, characters as function of the poet’s self 43, 140, 179, 180, 183, 189 46, 52, 53–54 Danzas, Konstantin 23 completion 19 Dargomyzhskii, Alexander 57, 72 composition 41, 44, 45, 55 Day of Russian Culture (Den’ russkoi fortune telling 124 kul’tury) 174, 179, 181 interdependence of life and art 42 De Parny, Evariste´ 12, 15, 27, 77 metrics 222 death as theme 36, 38–39, 65, 66, 67, 68, narrative structure 42–43, 45, 48, 53 69, 70, 71 Onegin stanza form 41, 222–23 Debreczeny, Paul 90, 91, 92, 104, 208 personal foundations 93 decentralising lyrical perspective 71 prototypes 12, 13 Del’vig, Anton 13, 20, 133, 147, 149, 151 psychoanalytical symbolism 50 Demidova, Alla 199 publication history 41, 43, 44, 45 Derzhavin, Gavrila 12, 121 reception 4, 37, 41, 44, 133 Diaghilev, Sergei 177, 202 relationship between first-person speaker dialogic discourse 46, 68 and author 26, 42

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Evgenii Onegin (cont.) Goncharov, Ivan 162 role of narrator 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51 Goncharova, Alexandra, sister of Natalia and Russian folk traditions 50 Pushkina 23 sketches 18 Goncharova, Ekaterina, sister of Natalia Pushkina 22 Fadeev, Alexander 203 Goncharova, Natalia Nikolaevna (Pushkin’s Fedor, son of Ivan the Terrible 60 wife) 16, 19, 20, 21–23, 24, 131, Fedotov, Georgii 183 134, 178, 184, 189 Filippova, N. F. 154 Gorky, Maxim 202 film 65 Granovskii, Timofei 122 animation 193–95 Grech, Nikolai 101, 144, 149 biographical 188, 200 Greek tragedy 58, 81, 82 creative interpretation 188, 197–98, 200 Green Lamp (Zelenaia lampa) 13, 107, 116, fidelity to Pushkin’s text 191, 196, 199, 132, 137 200 Greenleaf, Monika 92, 103 and historical context 190, 191, 196, 200 Griboedov, Alexander 139 literary adaptations 188 Grigoriev, Apollon 202 Pushkinian allusion 188, 191, 192, 193, Grimm, brothers 20 200 Grub Street 145 reception 189, 196 Gubaidulina, Sofia 171 tensions between literature and Guizot, François 62, 123 cinema 189, 198 The Gypsies (Tsygany) 16, 17, 24, 59–60, Fonvizin, Denis 12 75, 78–82, 159, 194, 221 Frank, S. L. 182 metrics 79, 80 French Revolution 18, 106, 118 narrative construction 59, 79 French Romantic historians 119, 122, 124 reception 88 Friche, Vladimir 205 Futurists 204 Hasty, O. P. 56 Herder, Johann Gottfried von 31 Gandlevskii, Sergei 213 Herzen, Alexander 122 Gannibal, Abram (Ibrahim) Petrovich Hoffman, E. T. A 91 (Pushkin’s maternal Hoisington, Sonia 43 great-grandfather) 3, 11, 23, 93, 95, Homer 12, 77, 81, 82, 87 96, 126 Pushkin’s dismissal of Homeric epic 81 Gannibal, Maria Alekseevna (Pushkin’s Iliad 81 grandmother) 12 honour 4, 5, 16, 22, 49, 99, 100, 107, 110, Gannibal, Osip Abramovich (Pushkin’s 116, 131, 153, 196 grandfather) 95 Horace 12, 29 Gardin, Vladimir 195 Hugo, Victor 6, 31, 154 German philosophical Romanticism 152 Hume, David 122 Gershenzon, Mikhail 67, 182 Gide, Andre´ 179 Iakovleva, Arina Rodionovna (Pushkin’s Glazunov, Alexander 167 nanny) 12, 17 Glinka, Mikhail 164, 165–66, 167, 170, 171 Icarus 27, 28 Gnedich, Nikolai 133, 150 identity Godunov, Boris, Tsar of Russia 60–61, 66, alternative senses of 26 110 ambivalence 93 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 47, 118, 134, and attitude to art 26, 27, 29 136 autobiographical motifs 24, 33, 64, 65, Gofman, Modest 177–78, 179, 181 66, 68, 69, 71, 92–101, 103, 116, 121, Gogol, Nikolai 92, 103, 143, 151, 153, 185, 131, 143, 177, 180, 182, 183; life 216 imitating literature 64, 92–103 Golikov, Ivan 128 and cultural models 42

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and culture of publishing 35 Khodasevich, Vladislav 175, 176–77, 178, and descent 4, 11, 96, 125, 126 180–81, 184, 185, 186, 187 and genius 5, 28, 29, 30, 31 Khomiakov, Aleksei 150 and imitation 26, 27, 28–29 Khomutova, Anna 117 inner self 1, 26, 33, 35 Khrzhanovskii, Andrei 194–95 materialist deﬁnition 38 Kibirov, Timur 190, 216, 220 mind and body dichotomy 36, 37, 38 Kikta, Valerii 159 and Otherness 93, 96 Kireevskii, Ivan 72 as philosophical and religious poet 180 Kirpotin, V. 208 poetic 27, 31, 32, 36 Kiukhel’beker, Wilhelm 13, 78 and posterity 35, 38 Koshanskii, Nikolai 145 protean 93 Kozlov, Nikita 24 and relation with reader 33–34, 35 Krylov, Ivan 12, 42, 150 self-projection 11, 26, 32, 35, 36, 93, 131 Kunitsyn, Alexander 105 self-representation 26, 215 Kuzmin, Mikhail 175 sexual 50, 54 and shared biography (friendship) 32 Lacroix, Paul 117 Il’in, Vladimir 183 Lednicki, Waclaw 181 impartiality Lemontey,´ Pierre Edouard 122 in historical drama 64, 123 Lenin, V. I. 209 in literary criticism 150 Leoncavallo, Ruggiero 159 intellectual networks 131, 142 Lermontov, Mikhail 92, 175, 203, 213 Inzov, Lieutenant-General Ivan 14 Lerner, Nikolai 189 irony 1, 42–43, 46, 47, 49, 79, 90, 91, 151, Levitan, Isaac 202 161, 196, 199 lexical focus 76, 78, 81, 83, 85 Irving, Washington 21, 91 Libedinskaia, Lidiia 207 Ishimova, Alexandra 143 liberalism 105, 106, 107, 113, 125, 132, 183 Ivan IV, the Terrible, Tsar of Russia 116 Lifar, Serge 177–78, 179 Ivanov, Viacheslav 88, 182, 183 Liprandi, Colonel Ivan 98 Liszt, Franz 160, 165 Jackson, Robert Louis 74 literature and power 3, 18, 35, 62, 63, 111, Jakobson, Roman 44, 181 113, 115, 116, 154, 184 July Revolution 114 Lobanov, M. E. 153 Lomonosov, Mikhailo 86, 101 Kalafati, Vasilii 159 Lotman, Iurii 45, 98, 111 Kalashnikova, Olga 17 Louis XIV 127 out-of-wedlock child 17, 71 Louvel, Louis-Pierre 14 Karamzin, Nikolai 12, 13, 14, 61, 71, 107, Lozinskii, Grigorii 176 118, 145, 147–48, 151 Lumiere,` brothers 197 dramatic impact 64 Lunacharskii, Anatoly 205 political views 63, 110 Lutoslawski, Witoslaw 160 signiﬁcance as historian 119, 125, 149, 162 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord 123 works: Herald of Europe 144; History madness, motif 70 of the Russian State 11, 17, 60, 118, Mahler, Gustave 170 125, 148; Marfa Posadnitsa 124 Mayakovsky, Vladimir 203, 204 Karlinsky, Simon 72 Mandelstam, Nadezhda 67, 212 Kartashev, A. V. 178 Mansurov, Pavel 132, 137–38 Katenin, Pavel 117 Marcus Aurelius 83 Keats, John 35, 36, 39 Maslennikov, Igor 198–99 Kern, Anna 140 Maturin, C. R. 47 Kharms, Daniil 216 Medici family 83 Kheraskov, Mikhail 86 Medtner, Nikolai 170–71

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Menaker, Leonid 190–91 opera 6, 57, 58, 64, 69, 159, 160–62, 178 Mendelssohn, Felix 159 disrupting cultural expectations 161 Merezhkovskii, Dmitrii 182 words versus narrative 161 Merim´ ee,´ Prosper 69, 71 Orlov, General Mikhail 15, 132 Michelet, Jules 40 Osipova-Vulf, Praskovia 17 Mickiewicz, Adam 15, 67 ottava rima 19 Mikhail Pavlovich, Grand Prince 115 Ottoman Empire 107–09 Miliukov, Pavel 117, 178, 186 Ovid 15, 81, 136 Miloradovich, General Count Mikhail 14 Milton, John 154 parliamentarism 114 minimalist prosaics 92 parody 12, 13, 17, 53, 64, 77–78, 91, 119, Mirsky, D. S. 181 132, 147, 216 Mniszech, Marina 63 Pascal, Blaise 36 Mochul’skii, Konstantin 176, 183 Pasternak, Boris 187, 212, 213 mock-epic 41, 61, 76, 87 Paul I, Emperor of Russia 121 Modzalevskii, Boris 142 Pavlov, Mikhail 119 Moliere` 12, 58, 66, 68 Pavlova, Karolina 56 Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Pereverzev, Valerian 205 Baron 105, 106 Pestel’, Colonel Pavel 15 Morson, G. S. 48 Peter I, the Great, Tsar, then Emperor of Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1, 66, 67, 68 Russia 2, 3, 11, 20, 82, 83, 93, 95, music (and Pushkin) 71, 176 109, 112, 115–16, 119, 125, 127, 219 art song (romance) 148, 159, 163 Peter III (husband of Catherine II) 3, 20, changing attitudes to 163, 166, 169, 119, 126 170; dominance of the exotic 164–68, Pisarev, Dmitrii 54 171; impact on Pushkin’s poetry 163, Plato 108 171–72; parallels with the German Platonov, Andrei 208, 214 Lied 163, 166, 170 Plekhanov, Georgii 205 displacement of literary prototype 160, Pletnev, Petr 65, 73, 133, 134–36, 137–38, 161, 162 139 and historical context 161–62 poetry versus prose 54 musical corpus 159 Pogodin, Mikhail 63, 116, 122, 123, 127, musical theatre 159 128, 152 Pushkin as stimulus to composition 160, Polevoi, Nikolai 119, 124, 144 162, 164 History of the Russian People 125 Musorgsky, Modest 57, 72, 161, 162, Polichroni, Calypso 15 169–70 Polidori, J. W. 47 mythologised rulers 112, 115, 117, 125 Popper, Karl 124 Pravda 212 Nabokov, Vladimir 1, 185–86, 187 pre-Romantic era 34, 47 Napoleon 32, 50, 107, 109, 118, 127 Prigov, Dmitrii 216 Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia 4, 17–18, 20, professional status of writer 5, 102, 111, 154 44, 111, 112, 115, 116, 121, 137, 147, and artistic autonomy 6, 29, 35, 54, 101, 189, 207 116, 183, 207, 215 Niebuhr, Barthold Georg 119 commercialisation of literature 5, 29, 90, Nietzsche, Friedrich 159 92, 93, 102, 148, 149, 150, 152 Novikov, Nikolai 126 and reading public 5, 29, 102, 144, 150–51, 152 ode 75, 76, 78, 81, 83, 85, 112 Prokoﬁev, Sergei 171 Odoevskii, Prince Vladimir 144 Protazanov, Iakov 197 Okudzhava, Bulat 191, 192 Pugachev, Emel’ian 18, 20, 121, 124, 195, omniscient mode of narration 90, 91, 92 196 Onegin-Otto, A. F. 177 punishment, motif 71, 82, 110

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Pushchin, Ivan 13, 110 Mozart and Salieri 6, 57, 65, 66–67, Pushkin, Alexander 222 and Abyssinia 11, 93 Rusalka (The Water-Nymph) 57, 68, anxiety 69–71, 177 private 65, 92; of reception 29, 31, 64, Scenes from Times of Chivalry (Stseny iz 65, 92, 93, 125; social 31, 93, 95 rytsarskikh vremen) 68–69 artistic innovation 29, 41–42, 76, 90, 92, The Miserly Knight (Skupoi rytsar’) 65, 139 66, 67 atheism 16, 36, 38, 218 The Stone Guest (Kamennyi gost’) 57, attitude to beauty 20, 183, 203 65, 67, 68 attitude to capitalism 114 drawings 193–95 attitude to textual detail 29, 167 dreams of a military career 13 attitude to time 34, 58, 59, 61, 79, 125 duels 4, 15, 22–23, 98, 100, 140, 143, birth 11, 12 180, 183, 188, 190, 192 Boldino 19–20, 65, 98–99, 118, 119, 194 exile 5, 15, 16, 18, 107, 108, 121, 125, boredom 17 131, 133, 136, 137, 140, 174, 215 burial 23–24 fate (sense of) 39, 64, 82, 123, 154 Catholic sources 122 favourite authors/works 12, 20 centrality in Russian culture 1, 6, 105, feelings of persecution 11 131, 160, 176, 183, 188, 189, 202, friendship 131, 133 205–06, 207, 215, 218 gambling 4, 14, 58, 132, 201 childhood 12, 58 genius 1, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 65, 71, 128, clashes with authorities 18 154, 176, 208, 212, 213 Collegiate Secretary, Ministry of Foreign genres, use of hybrid 45–46, 47, 58, 60, Affairs, St Petersburg 13, 96, 98 62, 64–65, 69, 76, 79, 82, 86, 151 command of French language and Aristotelian hierarchy 45 literature 12, 140, 144 gloriﬁcation of Russian imperialism 86, commercial fortunes 5, 29, 30, 31, 65, 93, 108, 120, 183 147, 150 as historical dramatist 62, 64, 71–72 concision 88, 138 and history 1, 60, 62, 82 correspondence as historian 64, 109, 118–28; historical communication channels 131, 134–37; craft 20, 61, 64, 92, 122; philosophy epistolary literary criticism 138–39; of history 17, 83, 124–25; view of output 131, 142; social networks 5, Providence 63, 82, 124 131; spectrum of orality 138–41; with humiliation 21, 22, 23, 96 his wife 137, 138, 177 identiﬁcation with characters 67, 98, 99, court historiographer 20, 21 100, 102 courtier (kammerjunker) 5, 21, 93, 96, inspiration 29, 31, 101, 149 101, 215 instrument of Soviet ideology 124, 182, critical concepts 151–52 189, 190, 212 critical output 143; ethics of invention versus imagination 26, 28 criticism 150 liberal reformer 14, 32 dandy persona 101 and literary conventions 52, 53, 62, 76, death 5, 23, 38, 139, 174, 175, 183–84, 79, 91 190, 191, 194, 213 literary imitation 27, 28–29, 30–31 diary 101, 108, 115, 138 love life 15–17, 19, 71, 177, 189 ‘Don Juan’s list’ 15, 68 lyric poems: dramatic works: ‘19 October 1825’ 32 Angelo (Andzhelo) 20, 59, 69 ‘19 October 1836’ 32 Feast in Time of Plague (Pir vo vremia ‘Again I have visited’ (‘Vnov’ia chumy) 65 posetil’) 24, 35; Wordsworthian spot Little Tragedies (Malen’kie tragedii) 19, of time 35 57, 65–68, 69, 71, 195 ‘AndreCh´ enier’´ 18

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Pushkin, Alexander (cont.) Southern poems 16, 58, 60, 79, 83, 144, ‘Arion’ 31, 194 147 ‘Autumn’ 215, 223 ‘Stanzas’ (‘Stansy’) 112–13; ‘Borodino Anniversary’ (‘Borodinskaia reception 113, 117 godovshchina’) 20 ‘The Burned Letter’ (‘Sozhzhennoe ‘Conﬁdante of magical olden times’ pis’mo’) 24 (‘Napersnitsa volshebnoi stariny’) 24 ‘The Countryside’ (‘Derevnia’) 106–07, ‘Demon’ (‘Demon’) 16 190 ‘Demons’ (‘Besy’) 20, 184, 191 ‘The Hero’ (‘Geroi’) 20 ‘Elegy’ (‘Elegiia’) 36 ‘The Little Town’ (‘Gorodok’) 12 ‘Epistle to the Censor’ (‘Poslanie ‘The Poet’ (‘Poka ne trebuet poeta’) 31, tsensoru’) 154 184 ‘For the shores of a distant fatherland’ ‘The Poet and the Crowd’ (‘Poet i (‘Dlia beregov otchizny dal’noi’) 24 tolpa’) 29, 31, 207 ‘From Pindemonte’ (‘Iz ‘The Prophet’ (‘Prorok’) 30–31, 33, 39, Pindemonte’) 35, 154 182, 183, 184, 192, 215; violent ‘Futile gift, random gift’ (‘Dar images 31 naprasnyi, dar sluchainyi’) 19, 36, ‘The Song of Songs’ 165 185 ‘The Wanderer’ (‘Strannik’) 36 ‘Grave of Anacreon’ (‘Grob ‘To a Poet Friend’ (‘K drugu Anakreona’) 38–39 stikhotvortsu’) 12, 143 ‘Guard me, my talisman’ (‘Khrani ‘To an Infant’ (‘Mladentsu’) 24 menia, moi talisman’) 24 ‘To Batiushkov’ (‘Batiushkovu’) 27–28 ‘I feel regret for the great woman’ (‘Mne ‘To Chaadaev’ (‘K Chaadaevu’) 207 zhal’ velikie zheny’) 121 ‘To Friends’ (‘Druz’iam’) 113 ‘I have built a monument...’(‘Ia ‘To Nanny’ (‘Niane’) 24 pamiatnik sebe vozdvig...’) 29 ‘To Ovid’ (‘K Ovidiiu’) 15 ‘I loved you...’(‘Ia vas liubil...’) 24 ‘To the Grandee’ (‘K vel’mozhe’) 126, ‘Imitations of the Koran’ (‘Podrazhaniia 222 Koranu’) 17 ‘To the Sea’ (‘K moriu’) 184 ‘Kirdzhali’ 90 ‘To the Slanderers of Russia’ ‘Liberty’ (‘Vol’nost’) 106, 107, 190, (‘Klevetnikam Rossii’) 20, 207 207 ‘To Zhukovskii’ (‘K ‘Lines Written at Night during Zhukovskomu’) 146–47 Insomnia’ (‘Mne ne spitsia, net ‘Treachery’ (‘Kovarnost’’) 16 ognia’) 37–38, 222 ‘Under the blue sky of your native land’ ‘Muse’ (‘Muza’) 26 (‘Pod nebom golubym strany svoei ‘My Genealogy’ (‘Moia rodnoi’) 24 rodoslovnaia’) 20, 93 ‘What is there in my name for you?’ ‘My ruddy critic’ (‘Rumianyi kritik (‘Chto v imeni tebe moem?’) 24, moi’) 154 33–35, 39 ‘Noel’¨ 107 ‘Whether I wander along noisy ‘Rebirth’ (‘Vozrozhdenie’) 28–29 streets...’(‘Brozhu li ia vdol’ ulits ‘Recollections in Tsarskoe Selo’ shumnykh...’) 39 (‘Vospominaniia v Tsarskom ‘While youthfully breathing sweet hope’ Sele’) 12, 75, 121 (‘Nadezhdoi sladostnoi mladencheski ‘Second Epistle to the Censor’ (‘Vtoroe dysha’) 38, 39 poslanie tsensoru’) 154 ‘Winter Evening’ (‘Zimnii vecher’) 24 ‘Sleep/Dream’ (‘Son’) 12 manuscript drafts 131, 135 ‘Solitary sower of freedom...’ marriage 19, 20, 54, 65, 68, 71, 92, 95, (‘Svobody seiatel’ pustynnyi . . .’) 184 99, 119, 134, 183–84 ‘Songs of the Western Slavs’ (‘Pesni messianic role 59, 182, 183–84, 202, 205, zapadnykh slavian’) 21 208

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mixed racial origin 92, 93 History of Pugachev (Istoriia money 5, 13, 15, 21, 24, 29, 66, 90, 96, Pugacheva) 20, 114, 115, 118, 120, 99, 119, 122, 153 122, 124 and economy of art 66 ‘Imaginary Conversation with myth 30, 181, 188, 192, 202, 203, 204, Alexander’ (‘Voobrazhaemyi razgovor 207–12, 214, 215–18, 219 s Aleksandrom’) 107 Soviet myth 202, 203, 204, 207–14, ‘Journey from Moscow to Petersburg’ 216, 219 (‘Puteshestvie iz Moskvy v narrative experimentation 1, 45, 68, 69, Peterburg’) 101, 102, 114–15, 89, 90, 91–92, 119, 122, 131, 139, 142 125 narrative poetry: ‘Memorandum on National Education’ Count Null (Graf Nulin) 17, 88, 223 (‘O narodnom vospitanii’) 111–12, Poltava 59, 89, 119, 125, 127, 150 113 Ruslan and Liudmila (Ruslan i ‘Notes on Eighteenth-Century Russian Liudmila) 5, 43, 75–78, 79, 86, 87, History’ (‘Zametki po russkoi istorii 88, 195; conception 28; metrics 76, XVIII veka’) 109, 118, 126 221; reception 75–76, 78 ‘On the National Element in Literature’ The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (‘O narodnosti v literature’) 86 (Bakhchisaraiskii fontan) 14, 15, 30, ‘On the Nobility’ (‘O dvorianstve’) 113 221 Roslavlev 91 The Gabrieliad (Gavriiliada) 15, 18, 87 Table-Talk 73, 121 The Prisoner of the Caucasus Tazit 59 (Kavkazskii plennik) 15, 86; dating of The Captain’s Daughter (Kapitanskaia epilogue and political meaning dochka) 21, 69, 90, 91–92, 101, 103, 108–09; reception 108, 133 119, 121, 124, 125, 151, 184, 195, 196 The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna (Skazka ‘The Egyptian Nights’ (‘Egipetskie o mertvoi tsarevne) 20 nochi’) 92, 101–02 The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish The History of Peter the Great (Istoriia (Skazka o rybake i rybke) 20, 176 Petra) 20, 128 The Tale of the Golden Cockerel ‘The History of the Village of (Skazka o zolotom petushke) 21 Goriukhino’ (‘Istoriia sela The Tale of the Village Priest and his Goriukhino’) 102, 103, 119, 120 Workman Balda (Skazka o pope i The Little House in Kolomna (Domik v rabotnike ego Balde) 19 Kolomne) 19, 223 Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters ‘The Queen of Spades’ (‘Pikovaia (Tsar Nikita i sorok ego docherei) 15 dama’) 20, 90, 161, 195, 197–99 national poet, status as 26, 59, 144, 203, Vadim 58 206, 207, 208, 209 protean quality 1, 26, 35, 58 and Nicholas I 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 54, public readings 12, 18, 32, 72, 120 111–14, 117 racist slurs on 93 northern isolation relationship between past and present (Mikhailovskoe) 16–18, 32, 96, (fascination for) 2, 68, 83, 119 109–11, 147 religious consciousness 17, 183 pioneer of Russian prose fiction 1, 41 Romantic subjectivity 35, 36, 37–38, 125 poetic development Southern period 14, 29, 58, 78, 147 influences 26, 27; precocity 12, 145 Kishinev 15–16, 98, 99, 107–09 political position 5, 14, 61, 137 student (Lycee)´ 12–13, 24, 58, 75, 105, pride in aristocratic ancestry 3, 11, 16, 125 120, 144–45 prose writing: sub-canonical works 130 Dubrovskii 69, 91, 99–101 superstition 20, 65, 123 ‘Fragments from Letters, Thoughts and surveillance of 15, 16, 63, 136–37 Comments’ (‘Otryvki iz pisem, mysli i symbolic centre of official ideology 6, 62, zamechaniia’) 147 105, 111, 204, 206, 208–09, 216

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Pushkin, Alexander (cont.) Russia symbolic centre of unofficial dissent 6, constitutional reforms (debate) 106, 107 105, 213 Cossack (Pugachev) Rebellion 20, 21, 92, and Tories 114 121, 124, 126, 196 Titular Councillor 20, 96, 103 Decembrist Rebellion 4, 17–18, 53, 105, unfinished works (and fragments) 57, 58, 111, 112, 137, 190, 208, 218 68, 69, 71, 75, 90, 91, 92, 95, 99, emancipation of the serfs 4, 106, 109, 101, 102, 114, 119, 126, 127, 140, 113, 125 143, 149, 150 gentry 3, 4, 96, 153, 205 visionary moments 33, 36 mestnichestvo (precedence system) 2, 94 Pushkin, Lev Sergeevich (brother) 19, 21, nobility 2, 3, 4, 6, 96, 100, 106, 109, 110, 133, 134–36 113–14, 115–16, 126, 145, 189, 205 Pushkin, Sergei L’vovich (father) 11, 13, 190 peasantry 2, 114 relations with son 16, 19, 66 Petrine era 2–3, 126 Pushkin, Vasilii L’vovich (uncle) 144, 145, cultural revolution 3–4; eighteenth- 147 century social mobility 3, 94, 126; Pushkin family history 3, 11, 61, 96 Petrine reforms 2–3, 119, 127; Table Pushkina, Nadezhda Osipovna, nee´ of Ranks 2–3, 4, 94 Gannibal (mother) 11, 24, 95 Polish uprising 20, 114 Pushkina, Natalia (see Goncharova, Natalia post-Soviet era 159, 188, 190, 191, 200 Nikolaevna) Romanov dynasty 11, 60, 63, 115 secret societies 15, 17, 18, 105, 107, 110, Rabaut de Saint Etienne 122 113 Racine, Jean 12 Soviet era 6, 61, 72, 159, 170, 175, 188, Radishchev, Alexander 106, 115, 125, 128 189, 193, 200 Raevskii, General Alexander 14, 16 Stalin era 186, 190, 206–07, 218 Raevskii, Nikolai 73 cultural organisations 206; Stalinist Rakhmaninov, Sergei 159, 170, 202 mythology 62, 212 Ravel, Maurice 167 Time of Troubles 60, 61, 110 Razumovskii, Kirill, Hetman of Ukraine 121 universities 122 reader-response and implied reader 42–43, Russian Formalists 6, 46, 92, 142, 204 46, 51, 81, 88, 91, 143 Russian literature: realism 58, 81, 151 almanacs 147 Remizov, Aleksei 176 Northern Flowers for 1828 147–49, Richardson, Samuel 47, 49 151; Polar Star 149 Rimskii-Korsakov, Nikolai 57, 72, 165, ‘Cast Iron Statute’ 144 167, 168–69 copyright law 144 Riznich, Amalia 15, 24 genre classification 75, 84, 86, 90, 119 Robertson, William 122 hierarchy of genres 75 Robespierre 127 institutions (patronage and professional Romantic fragmentation (genre) 90, 92 writing) 6, 101–02, 125, 143, 147, Romantic idealism 47, 150 148, 151, 152, 154 Romantic poetry 32, 35, 36, 42, 47, 152 literary societies 13 Romanticism 6, 36, 58, 75, 79, 133, 140, place of Evgenii Onegin in 42 150 place of poetry in 30 High Romantic mode 31 Pushkin’s assessment of 147–49 Rossini, Gioacchino 165 Silver Age period 182, 207, 208 Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste 12 tradition (Pushkin drawing on) 80, 87, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 47, 49 112, 119 Rozanov, Vasilii 182 Russian national identity 7, 196, 202, 203, Rozen, Baron Egor 122, 123 208, 214, 218, 219 Rubinshtein, Lev 216 in emigr´ e´ culture 174, 176, 180 Rubinstein, Anton 168, 169, 170 alternative identity 7

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Pushkin as unifying symbol of cultural Stendhal 91 identity 174, 183, 214, 218 Sterne, Laurence 41 Ryleev, Konstantin 18, 88, 110 Strakhov, Nikolai 161 Struve, P. B. 183 Sakulin, Pavel 205 Suvorov, Generalissimo Alexander 121 Salieri, Antonio 66, 67, 68 Sviridov, Georgii 170 Saltykov, Sergei 121 satire 66, 107 Tacitus 109, 110 Schelling, Friedrich 37 Tales of Belkin (Povesti Belkina) 5, 19, 58, Schiller, Friedrich 47, 58, 61 90, 91, 92, 102 Schlegel, August 62 ‘The Blizzard’ 91 Schnittke, Alfred 171, 194 ‘The Shot’ 91 Scholz, Friedrich 159 prototypes 98; role of narrator 98–99; Schubert, Franz 165, 166 and social standing 97–99, 102 Schumann, Robert 166 ‘The Squire’s Daughter’ 91 Schwarz, Berthold 69 ‘The Stationmaster’ 91 Scott, Sir Walter 5, 69, 91, 119, 120, 147 and the service rank system 96–97, Rob Roy 21, 91 102 Scriabin, Alexander 159 Tasso, Torquato 12, 27 Senkovskii, Osip 144, 153 Tchaikovsky, Petr 6, 161–62, 169–70, 197, Serapin, S. [S. A. Pinus] 182 202 Seth, Vikram 223 Tefﬁ, Nadezhda 178 Shakespeare, William 1, 17, 35, 37, 40, 41, The Citizen 161 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, The Contemporary (Sovremennik), Pushkin’s 118, 222 literary quarterly 5, 21, 115, 116, King Lear 70 119, 134, 143, 151, 153 Macbeth 70 Pushkin’s essays on literary criticism Measure for Measure 20, 59 for 153 Rape of Lucrece 17 The Herald of Europe 151 Shakhovskoi, Prince Alexander 58, 132 The Literary Critic 214 Shaw, J. Thomas 43, 49 The Literary Gazette 134, 143, 149, 151 Shchedrin, Rodion 171 The Moscow Herald 113, 152 Shenstone, William 71 The Northern Bee (Severnaia pchela) 122 Sheremetev, Count Boris 97 Themistocles 108 Shestov, Lev 182 threshold moments 59, 61, 65, 69, 71, 83 Shevyrev, Stepan 62, 144 Tibullus 27 Shklovskii, Viktor 195–96 Tishchenko, Boris 171 Shmelev, Ivan 178 Tiutchev, Fedor 202 Shostakovich, Dmitrii 170, 171 Todd, William Mills, III 52 Shuiskii, Prince 61 Tolstoy, Iakov 132 Shuvalov, Count Ivan 101 Tolstoy, Leo 161, 202 Sinyavsky, Andrei (Abram Tertz) 60, 214 Anna Karenina 54, 92 Slonimskii, Sergei 171 War and Peace 45 Smirnov, Vladimir 218 Tomashevskii, Boris 107 Smoktunovskii, Innokentii 190, 193 Trediakovskii, Vasilii 101, 148 Soban’skaia, Karolina 15, 24 Trifonov, Iurii 206 sociological criticism 204–05 Tsarskoe Selo, and Lycee,´ Imperial 32, 121, Solov’ev, Vladimir 182, 183 213 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 215 Tsivian, Yuri 198 Stael,¨ Mme de 47, 49 Tsvetaeva, Marina 56, 184, 185, 187, 212 Stakhanov, Aleksei 208 Turgenev, Alexander 14, 24, 121, 127 Stalin, Joseph 209 Turgenev, Ivan 92, 161, 162, 202 Stallworthy, Jon 223 Turgenev, Nikolai 106, 112, 125, 132

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Tynianov, Iurii 76, 86, 89, 92, 117, 180, Volynskii, Artemii 148 213, 218 von Ranke, Leopold 118–28 Tyrkova-Williams, Ariadna 178, 186 Vorontsov, Count Mikhail 15, 16 Vorontsova, Countess Elizaveta (Elise) 15, Union of Philanthropy (Soiuz 16, 17, 24 blagodenstviia) 106, 112 Vsevolozhskii, Nikita 13–14, 132 Uvarov, S. S. 116 Weidle, Vladimir 183 Valery,´ Paul 178 Wilson, John van Heeckeren, Baron Louis 22, 23, 24, The City of the Plague 71 139–40, 190, 220 Winckelmann, Johann Joachim 150 Venevitinov, Dmitrii 144 Wolf, Hugo 166, 170 verisimilitude 123, 154 Verstovskii, Aleksei 165 Ypsilantis, Alexander 98, 108, 128 Viazemskii, Prince Petr 13, 55, 81, 86, 88, 101, 113, 118, 122, 123, 128, 132, Zagoskin, Mikhail 197 133, 134, 136, 139, 145, 151, 190 Zagriazhskaia, Natalia Kirillovna 121 Vico, Giambattista 31 Zaitsev, Boris 178 Vigny, Alfred de 154 Zhirmunskii, Viktor 78, 81 Virgil 12, 27, 28, 83 Zhukovskii, Vasilii 13, 16, 28, 77, 113, 116, Aeneid 83 132, 137, 145, 146, 151, 190 Voltaire 12, 15, 58, 116, 122, 130, 154 Zorin, Andrei 218

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