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113, 134, 137, 138, 147, 152, 156,

174–75, 182, 223, 230–38 Poor Folk 127, 129, 139, 147, 148,

237 White Nights 127, 135, 147 dual faith: see dvoeverie duel 13, 19, 72, 92, 99, 102, 103–04,

107, 108–14, 116, 127, 128,

237 dvoeverie 29, 61–62, 67, 72, 76

Ehrenburg, Ilya

Thaw, The 220 Eikhenbaum, Boris Mikhailovich

Young Tolstoi, The 16 Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich

Alexander Nevsky 66 Epstein, Mikhail Naumovich 15, 26,

236 Erofeyev, Venedikt 236

Moscow to the End of the Line 35, 236 Erofeyev, Viktor “Anna’s Body” 236 Russian Beauty 236 “Russia’s Fleurs du mal” 236 “Wake for Russian Literature, A” 236 estrangement 15, 132, 171, 177, 207, 211

face, visage, countenance, mask 22, 30–33, 52, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 78, 79, 116, 120, 122, 181, 186, 202, 244

Fadeyev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich 221

Fainzelberg, Ilya Arnoldovich: see Ilf and Petrov

fairy tales / folk tales 11, 19, 20, 25, 35, 39, 40, 43, 46, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66–71, 74, 75, 92, 99, 114, 115, 119, 122, 177, 203, 207–11, 212, 219, 232, 236

Fonvizin, Denis 86–89, 91, 93, 94, 108, 120 Brigadier, The 86, 88, 89 Minor, The 86–87, 93

fools, holy fools, jesters 11, 39–43, 48, 54, 60, 62, 63–65, 71, 77, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89–90, 94, 97, 138, 143, 148, 151, 152, 182, 199, 209, 210, 247

Fyodorov, Ivan 59

Gasparov, Boris 15, 32, 205 Gippius, Zinaida Nikolaevna 74 Gladkov, Fyodor Vasilievich 203–07, 218 Cement 65, 202, 203–07, 213–17, 231 Godunov, Boris 41, 59 Gogol, Nikolai 13, 16–17, 19, 20, 31, 43, 48–49, 51, 55, 74, 93, 97, 99, 100, 101, 108, 113, 114–24, 126, 127–28, 131, 134, 135–36, 139, 141, 142, 146–47, 148, 149, 151, 158, 161, 171, 172, 176, 177, 179, 181, 182, 183, 185–86, 187, 202, 203, 204, 207, 239, 240, 241, 245, 248, 249 “Carriage, The” 115–16 Dead Souls 25, 31, 48, 55, 93, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122–23, 185, 226, 245 Diary of a Madman 117, 118, 123, 146

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Gogol, Nikolai (cont.)

Government Inspector, The 32, 93, 118–21

“Nose, The” 116, 186, 240, 241

“Overcoat, The” 32, 116–17, 147, 148, 157

Selected Passages from a

Correspondence with Friends 124

“Sorochinsky Fair” 216 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich 167

Oblomov 72 Gorky, Maksim (pseudonym of

Peshkov, Aleksei Maksimovich) 13, 25, 27, 47, 56, 132, 133, 137, 157, 191, 192, 196–97, 199–200, 203, 207, 214, 217, 218, 221, 222, 225, 229

Mother 38, 203 Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich 100

holy fool: see fools

Ilf and Petrov 202

Golden Calf, The 202

Twelve Chairs, The 202 intelligentsia 7, 17, 126, 224–30 Iskander, Fazil Abdulevich

Sandro from Chegem 53 Ivan IV, The Terrible 52, 59, 84, 118 Ivanov, Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich

Armored Train 14 – 69 47

Jakobson, Roman Osipovich 15, 222 jester: see fools

Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich 27,

87–88, 94, 106–07, 122, 149, 238

History of the Russian State 100

Letters of a Russian Traveler 94

“Poor Liza” 94–97, 107, 145, 245

Kataev, Evgeny Petrovich: see Ilf and

Petrov Kataev, Valentin Petrovich 25 Time, Forward! 25

Kharms, Daniil Ivanovich

Elizabeth Bam 53 Khlebnikov, Velemir Vladimirovich

81 Knyazhnin, Yakov Borisovich 97, 108,

120 Misfortune from a Coach 89–90 Korolenko, Vladimir Glaktionovich

29 Koshchey the Deathless 66, 67–70, 74,

205 Kurbsky, Prince Andrei Mikhailovich

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Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich 12, 13, 17, 99, 100, 106, 109–10, 112, 113, 154, 203, 217, 245 Hero of Our Time, A 109 “Prophet” 110 Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich Enchanted Wanderer, The 46 Left-Handed Craftsman, The [Levsha] 53 Lipovetsky, Mark Naumovich 15 Lotman, Yury Mikhailovich 15, 18, 29,

76–79, 179–81, 185 Lukin, Vladimir Ignatievich 83

magic 24, 39, 61, 70, 74, 75–79, 105,

135, 142, 176, 177 Mandelstam, Nadezhda Yakovlevna 9 Mandelstam, Osip Emiliovich 184, 218 “Stalin Epigram” 52 Marshak, Samuil Yakovlevich 207 Marxism, communism, socialism 17, 25, 26, 36, 39, 130, 136, 191– 219, 220–30, 231, 236, 246 mask: see face Mayakovsky, Vladimir 7, 8, 201

Bedbug, The 57, 201 Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich 134, 166–67, 169 Anti-Christ. Peter and Alexis 29 “L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” 166

Index 289

“On Reasons for the Decline of

Contemporary Russian

Literature, and on its New

Tendencies” 166 Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emiliovich 189,

194,218,221 miracle 8, 23, 24, 38, 40, 42, 56, 60, 61,

63, 71, 75-79, 129, 136, 173,

176-77, 210, 219 Mirsky, Prince Dmitri Petrovich

Svyatopolk: History of Russian

Literature, A 23 Moscow, myth of 1, 20, 27, 43, 77, 126,