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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,

110, 113, 118, 121–22, 124, 209 Eugene Onegin 17, 38, 87, 103,

104–06, 108, 113, 115, 123, 244 Journey to Arzrum, A 28 “Little Tragedies, The” 50, 109 Miserly Knight, The 51; Mozart and Salieri 109, 110; Stone Guest, The 50 “Prophet” 109–10 “Queen of Spades, The” 55, 96,

104 Ruslan and Lyudmila 71 Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich

Belkin 93, 107–08, 123, 136;

“Shot, The” 108–09, 113;

“Stationmaster, The” 107, 112,

147, 148

Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich 27 Rasputin, Valentin Grigorievich Farewell to Matyora 13

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich Invisible City of Kitezh and the

Maiden Fevronia, The 29 Koshchey the Deathless 68 rogue 11, 40, 43, 47–53, 86, 90, 118,

121, 122, 201, 209 Ryurik 59

saints’ lives 11, 19, 36–37, 38–39, 59–61, 62–66, 73, 75, 129, 132, 193 Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich Golovlyovs, The 51 Scriabin, Aleksandr 60

Mysterium 60 Shagin, Dmitry 42–43 Shalamov, Varlam Tikhonovich 225 Kolyma Tales 225 Shelgunov, Nikolai Vasilievich 14 Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich 6, 15

“Art as Device” 15 Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich 9, 212, 224 The Quiet Don 9, 47, 224 Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitrievich

116, 192, 195, 230 Shukshin, Vasily Makarovich 42 Shvarts, Evgeny Lvovich 203, 207–11, 218, 232 Dragon, The 203, 207–11 One Night 210 Sinyavsky, Andrei Donatovich (real name of Abram Tertz) 39–40, 41, 199, 220 Lectures on Ivan Durak 39, 199 “What Is Socialist Realism?” 199 skomorokh 39, 40–43, 71, 209 Slavophilism/Slavophiles 12, 18, 126,

212 socialist realism 9, 14, 20, 29, 189–90, 191, 192, 197, 198–203, 204, 205–06, 207, 211, 213, 214, 217,

Index 291

218, 220, 221, 222–23, 228, 231, 236, 240, 242 Sologub, Fyodor Kuzmich

Petty Demon 17 Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich

Lectures on Divine Humanity 168 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich 25, 36, 145, 212, 220, 224–30, 237, 239, 241, 247, 248 Cancer Ward, The 49, 145, 225, 229 First Circle, The 23, 44, 225 Gulag Archipelago 225–26, 230 One Day in the Life of Ivan

Denisovich 45, 224 Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and