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Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich (b. 1933) p. 230.

Zamyatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937) p. 49. Works by: Islanders, The; “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters”; “Scythians?”; We.

Zhukovsky Vas??ly Andreyevich (1783-1852) p. 100.

Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1958) p. 192. Works by: Before Sunrise; Youth Restored.

Places

Angara, River p. 13. Arzrum p. 28.

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Bashk??r, Steppe p. 45.

Belomor [“White Sea”] Canal p. 225.

Boldino Pushkin’s estate, where he had two legendarily productive autumns, p.

106. Borodino site of an extremely bloody battle between the Russians and Napoleon’s

army near Moscow in 1812, p. 150.

Caucasus, Mountains p. 28.

Chechnya p. 13.

Chern??gov p. 72.

Chud (pronounced chood), Lake p. 59.

Dnieper, River p. 175.

Don, River p. 175.

Dushanbe formerly Stalinabad, in Soviet Taj??kistan, p. 210.

Ekibastuz Soviet prison camp, p. 224.

Kazan p. 72.

Kiev former capital of Rus', now capital of Ukraine, p. 44.

K??tezh (pronounced Keetezh), p. 29.

Klopsko A monastery located near the northern city of Novgorod, p. 63.

Kolyma p. 225.

Leningrad Soviet name for St. Petersburg from 1924-91 (see also Petrograd, St. Petersburg), p. 42.

Magnitogorsk p. 25. Moscow p. 1. Murom p. 72.

Novgorod p. 40.

Ob’, River p. 45. Oka, River p. 72. Oryol p. 74.

Petersburg St. Petersburg (see also Petrograd and Leningrad), p. 28. Petrograd Slavic equivalent of the Germanic-sounding Petersburg (“Peter’s

city”), so renamed in 1914 by Nicholas II as a patriotic move during World

War I, p. 15.

Riga p. 72.

Sakhal??n Island a penal colony north of Japan, p. 133. Sevastopol battle site in the Crimean War, p. 125.

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Smolensk p. 74.

St. Petersburg original name for the former capital of Russia, p. 1.

Stalinabad now Dushanbe, in Tajikistan, p. 210.

Svetloyar, Lake p. 29.

Tobolsk p. 45.

Tula city South of Moscow, p. 131.

Ufa, region p. 45. Ural (Mountains) p. 45.

Vladivostok p. 53.

Yalta coastal city on the Black Sea in Crimea, p. 159.

Yaroslavl-Volga, region p. 29.

Yasnaya Polyana estate where Count Leo Tolstoy was born and buried, p. 131.

Yenesei River p. iv.

Yershalaim “Jerusalem,” in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, p. 176.

Guide to further reading

General background and useful reference

Brown, Edward J., Russian Literature since the Revolution (Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 2002). Brown, William Edward, A History of Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature

(Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1980). A History of Seventeenth Century Russian Literature (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis,

1980). Cornwell, Neil, ed., The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (New York:

Routledge, 2001). Fedotov, George P., The Russian Religious Mind, 2 vols. (Blemont, MA: Norland,

1975), vol. I: Kievan Christianity, the 10th to the 13th Centuries, and

vol. II: The Middle Ages, the 13th to the 15th Centuries. Haney, Jack J., An Introduction to the Russian Folktale (Armonk, NY:

M. E. Sharpe, 1999). Hubbs, Joanna, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988). Karlinsky, Simon, Russian Drama from its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Kelly, Catriona, A History of Russian Women’s Writing 1820–1992 (Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1994). Mirsky, Prince D. S., A History of Russian Literature from its Beginnings to 1900

(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999). Moser, Charles, ed., The Cambridge History of Russian Literature (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1992). Rzhevsky, Nicholas, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, Helena Goscilo, and Karen Evans- Romaine, eds.,

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (London: Routledge,

2006). Terras, Victor, ed., Handbook of Russian Literature (New Haven: Yale University

Press, 1990). A History of Russian Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press,

1991).

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