Russian Literature (25 page)

Annenkov, Pavel (1812 or

poet v, 5, 8, 71–3, 91, 144

1813–87), critic 77

Brontë, Emily 43

Annensky, Innokenty (1855 or

Bryusov, Valery (1874–1924),

1856–1909), poet 62

poet 82, 132

Antokolsky, Pavel (1896–1978),

Buchan, John 120

poet 91

Buck, Pearl S. 5

Apollo
(literary journal) 37–8, 42

Bulgakov, Mikhail (1891–1940),

Austen, Jane 43, 102

novelist and dramatist 29,

89, 143–4

B

Bulgarin, Faddey (1789–1859),

Bakhtin, Mikhail (1895–1975),

novelist, journalist, and spy

cultural critic 85, 149

80

Baratynsky, Evgeny (1800–44),

Bunina, Anna (1774–1829), poet

poet 110, 140

114

157

Burlyuk, David (1882–1967), poet

Dickens, Charles 5, 43

93

Dmitrieva, Valentina

Burney, Frances (Fanny) 43

(1859–1947), prose writer

Burns, Robert 43

131

Dobrolyubov, Nikolay

C

(1836–61), critic 41, 81,

84

Calvino, Italo 9

Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav

canon, the literary v, 32–60, 110

(1875–1957), painter 55

Carver, Raymond 6

Dolgorukaya, Natalya

Catherine II (reigned 1762–96),

(1714–71), memoirist 65

Empress of Russia 42

Donne, John 5

Catullus 38

Dostoevsky, Fedor (1821–81),

censorship 33, 51, 73, 74–5, 83

novelist 4, 5, 9, 23, 25, 30,

Chateaubriand, François-René

35, 40, 62, 68, 90, 96, 110,

de 6, 119

141–2, 143

Chayanov, Aleksandr (1888–1937),

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks (1877–1926),

prose writer 148, 150

ture

founder of the Soviet

ra

Chekhov, Anton (1860–1904),

e

secret police 25, 87

Lit

writer and dramatist 4, 6,

41, 64, 69, 79, 94, 131, 151

ssian

Ru

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay

E

(1828–89), critic 41, 42, 142

Eikhenbaum, Boris (1886–1959),

Church Slavonic 7, 139

Formalist critic 111, 132

Circassians 122

Eisenstein, Sergey (1898–1948),

Cixous, Hélène 108

film director 55,
67

Clark, Katerina 90

Eliot, George 43

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 57

Eliot, T. S. 5, 8, 28

Constant, Benjamin 6, 124

emigre literature 45, 83

The Contemporary
(literary Erofeev, Venedikt (1938–90),

journal) 36, 45

prose writer 75, 96

Cossacks 122, 125

Erofeev, Viktor (b. 1947), prose

writer and critic

D

Esenin, Sergey (1895–1925), poet

Dante 5

29, 135

Derzhavin, Gavrila (1743–1816),

ethnography 131

poet 12, 19, 110, 139, 144

Eurasianism 127

158

F

Goncharov, Ivan (1812–91),

prose writer, author of

Fadeev, Aleksandr (1901–56),

Oblomov
33, 84

prose writer 23, 25

Gorky, Maksim (1868–1936),

Flaubert, Gustave 5

prose writer 23, 41

folklore 129, 134–5

graphomania 92–4

Fonvizin, Denis (1745–92),

Grigoriev, Apollon (1822–64),

dramatist 64

poet and critic 81

Ford, Richard 6

Groys, Boris, critic 89

Formalism 52, 58, 110, 132–3

Gumilyov, Nikolay (1886–1921),

Forsh, Olga (1873–1961), prose

poet 112

writer 132

France, Peter 72, 118

Frost, Robert 28

H

Harris, Jane 152

G

Haworth 19, 26

Heine, Heinrich 65

Galina, G. (Glafira Mamoshina)

Heldt, Barbara 113

103

Herodotus 38

Garshin, Vsevolod (1855–88),

Index

Herzen, Aleksandr

prose writer 131

(1812–70), radical thinker

Gasparov, Boris, critic 65

64, 111

Gasparov, Mikhail (b. 1935), critic

Zakharina-Herzen, Natalya

v, 117

(1817–52), memoirist 111

Gertsyk, Adelaida (1874–1925),

Holmes, Richard 57

poet 115, 135

Hopkins, Gerald Manley 43

Ginzburg, Evgeniya (1904–77),

Horace 8, 12

memoirist 109

Hughes, Ted 9

Ginzburg, Lidiya (1902–90),

Hutchings, Stephen 149

critic 64

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

40, 65, 115

I

Gogol, Nikolay (1809–52),

Ivanov, Vyacheslav (1866–1949),

prose writer and dramatist

poet 103, 140

23, 41, 50, 64, 68, 81, 85, 122,

140

J

Golovina, Alla (1909–87), poet

Jakobson, Roman (1896–1982),

115

linguist, Formalist critic 7

159

Johnson, Samuel 43

Koltsov, Aleksey (1809–42),

Joyce, James 5

poet 135

Komissarzhevskaya, Vera

(1864–1910), actress 104

K

The Koran 98

Kalinin, Mikhail (1875–1944),

Korolenko, Vladimir (1853–1921),

Bolshevik leader 41

prose writer 131

Karadz

ˇic, Vuk 40

‘K. R.’ (Konstantin Romanov

Karavaeva, Anna (1893–1979),

1858–1916), poet 103

Socialist Realist writer 89

Kruchenykh, Aleksey

Karamzin, Nikolay (1766–1826),

(1886–1968), poet 93

prose writer and historian

Krylov, Ivan (1769–1844),

43, 56, 63, 65, 99, 126, 129

poet 36

Kharms, Daniil (1905–42), poet

and prose writer 53, 89, 133,

142

L

Kheraskov, Mikhail (1733–1807),

Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie—

poet and dramatist 63

Louise Prat de 6

ture

rae
Khodasevich, Vladislav laughter 151

Lit

(1886–1939), poet and critic

Lawrence, T. E. 122

ssian

88

Lay of Igor’s Campaign

Ru

Khomyakov, Aleksey

(twelfth-century epic) 127

(1804–60), poet and

Layton, Susan 120, 126

Slavophile 141

Ledkovsky, Marina 113

Kingslake, Alexander William

Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924),

118

Soviet leader 44, 135

Kipling, Rudyard 120

Lermontov, Mikhail (1814–41),

Kiprensky, Orest (1782–1836),

poet and novelist 50, 52, 53,

painter 3

59, 79, 84, 120, 124

Kireevsky, Ivan (1806–56),

Leskov, Nikolay (1831–95),

Slavophile thinker 150

prose writer 146–7

Klyuev, Nikolay (1884–1937),

Letkova, Ekaterina (1856–1937)

poet 57, 135

131

Knyazhnin, Yakov (1742–91), poet

literary journals 36, 37–8, 42

and dramatist 64

Lomonosov, Mikhailo (1711–65),

Koltonovskaya, Elena

scientist and poet 36, 41, 43,

(1870–1952), critic 109

52, 89, 139

160

Lotman, Yury (1922–1993),

Nikitin, Afanasy (d. 1472), travel

semiotician 56, 79

writer 126

M

O

Mandelstam, Natalya

O’Faolain, Sean 6

(1899–1980), memoirist

Olesha, Yury (1899–1960), prose

109

writer 92, 144

Mandelstam, Osip (1891–1938),

Ostrovsky, Aleksandr

poet 8, 27–8, 63, 88, 89,

(1823–86), dramatist 23,

112–13
, 145

67

Mann, Thomas 92

Ovid 13, 38

Mansfield, Katherine 6

Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Aleksandr

P

(1797–1837), prose writer

Paine, Thomas (Tom) 43

120

Panova, Vera (1905–73),

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

prose writer 32, 103, 109,

(1893–1930), poet 21, 29, 64,

145

85–7, 90, 111

Parnok, Sofiya (1885–1933), poet

Index

metaphysical poetry 140

114

Mickiewicz, Adam 40

Parny, Evariste-Désiré de Forges

Mirsky, Dmitry Svyatopolk

6

(1890–1939), critic 1, 52

Pasternak, Boris (1890–1960),

morality, literature and 88–91

poet 28, 96,
112–13
, 142

Munro, Alice 6

Pavlova, Karolina (1807–93),

Musorgsky, Modest (1839–81),

poet 65, 102, 114

composer 55, 64

peasantry, as represented in

literature 130–2

N

Peter I (reigned 1682–1725), Tsar

Nabokov, Vladimir (1899–1977),

of Russia 42, 90

novelist v, 18, 21, 35, 45, 91,

Pisarev, Dmitry (1840–68), critic

92, 112, 115, 142, 144

30, 40, 46

négritude 127

politeness, relationship of with

Nekrasov, Nikolay (1821–77) 41,

literature 99

45, 81, 130

Pope, Alexander 43

New Literary Review
116

Prigov, Dmitry (b. 1940), poet

Nietzsche, Friedrich 4

75–6

161

‘progressiveness’ as merit in

The Gypsies
118

Soviet criticism 42–6

‘I loved you’ 72,106

Proletcult 136

Journey to Erzerum
118–19

publishing and printing 32–3

Letters 7, 64

Pushkin, Aleksandr (1799–1837),

The Little House at Kolomna
76, poet

77–8

and authorship 32–7

Little Tragedies
63

biography of
3
, 13, 51, 57

‘Monument’ 10–12, 48, 62

commodification of 19–20

‘The Poet’ 99

cult of 39–40, 42–6, 52, 59

‘The Poet and the Mob’ 102

and French literature 6

The Prisoner of the Caucasus
manuscripts of 18, 39, 75, 106

119, 121

monuments to 16–17, 22

‘The Prophet’ 9, 62

museums of 16–17

Queen of Spades
55
, 64, 68–9, as ‘negro’ 120, 121

70, 71, 78

and Orientalism 118–20

Ruslan and Ludmilla
3, 129

parodies of 70–2

Skazki
(verse tales) 129

ture

and religion 138–9, 142

Tales of Belkin
129

rae

as salon poet 100, 104

Goncharova-Pushkina, Natalya

Lit

in schools 48, 50

(1812–1863), wife of Pushkin

ssian

as stylist 7, 14–15, 69

25, 31, 111, 23

Ru

translated 8–11

and women’s writing 106–8

Works:
Angelo
80

R

Boris Godunov
64, 80

Rabelais, François 8

The Captain’s Daughter
36, 48, Rachmaninov, Sergey

53

(1873–1943), composer

Count Nulin
76

103

‘Desert Fathers’ 107

Radishchev, Aleksandr 41, 43, 46

‘The Drowned Man’ 61–2

Rembrandt van Rijn 146

Dubrovsky
50

Remizov, Aleksey (1877–1957),

Egyptian Nights
16, 18, 65

prose writer, artist
44–5
,
Evgeny Onegin
3, 4, 22,
35
, 45, 132, 145

53, 67–8, 76, 79, 98, 138

Repin, Ilya (1844–1930), painter

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
19

120

Romanticism 16–17, 61–2

The Gabrieliad
74, 138

Rosenthal, Charlotte 113

162

Rosetti, Christina 43

Shvarts, Elena (b. 1948), poet

Rostopchina, Evdokiya

18

(1811–58), poet 108, 114–15

Sinyavsky, Andrey (1925–97, also

Rowse, A. L. 51

wrote as ‘Abram Terts’),

Rozanov, Vasily (1856–1919),

prose writer 63, 74, 93, 139

essayist 138, 148

Sipovsky, V. V. (1872–1930),

literary historian 110

skaz 132

S

Slavophile movement 6, 140–1,

salons 100–1

147–8

Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail

Socialist Realism 87–8, 90, 109,

(1826–89), satirist 41, 52,

136, 145

83–4

Solovyov, Vladimir (1853–1900),

Sartre, Jean-Paul 4

religious philosopher 140

Scott, Walter 48

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Sedakova, Olga (b. 1949), poet

(b. 1918), prose writer 51,

145–6

93, 94, 95–6, 151

Sentimentalism 99, 106

Spivak, Gayatri 108

serial novels
36
, 38

In

Staël, Germaine de 107

dex

Seth, Vikram 5

Stalin, Joseph, Soviet leader 44,

Shaginyan, Marietta

52, 87

(1888–1982), prose writer

Stratford 19, 25

and poet 103

Surkov, Aleksandr (1899–1983),

Shakespeare, William vi, 9, 12–13,

poet 88

15, 51, 62, 80

Swift, Jonathan 43

Shalamov, Varlam (1907–82),

prose writer 71, 94–5

Shaw, Thomas Budge 8

T

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 9, 115

Tchaikovsky, Petr (1840–93),

Shepherd, David viii, 91

composer
55

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 8

‘Thaw’ 93