Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Krylov, Ivan (1769–1844), poet 36

L

Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie-Louise Prat de 6

laughter 151

Lawrence, T. E. 122

Lay of Igor’s Campaign (twelfth-century epic) 127

Layton, Susan 120, 126

Ledkovsky, Marina 113

Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924), Soviet leader 44, 135

Lermontov, Mikhail (1814–41), poet and novelist 50, 52, 53, 59, 79, 84, 120, 124

Leskov, Nikolay (1831–95), prose writer 146–7

Letkova, Ekaterina (1856–1937) 131

literary journals 36, 37–8, 42

Lomonosov, Mikhailo (1711–65), scientist and poet 36, 41, 43, 52, 89, 139

Lotman, Yury (1922–1993), semiotician 56, 79

M

Mandelstam, Natalya (1899–1980), memoirist 109

Mandelstam, Osip (1891–1938), poet 8, 27–8, 63, 88, 89, 112–13, 145

Mann, Thomas 92

Mansfield, Katherine 6

Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Aleksandr (1797–1837), prose writer 120

Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893–1930), poet 21, 29, 64, 85–7, 90, 111

metaphysical poetry 140

Mickiewicz, Adam 40

Mirsky, Dmitry Svyatopolk (1890–1939), critic 1, 52

morality, literature and 88–91

Munro, Alice 6

Musorgsky, Modest (1839–81), composer 55, 64

N

Nabokov, Vladimir (1899–1977), novelist v, 18, 21, 35, 45, 91, 92, 112, 115, 142, 144

négritude 127

Nekrasov, Nikolay (1821–77) 41, 45, 81, 130

New Literary Review 116

Nietzsche, Friedrich 4

Nikitin, Afanasy (d. 1472), travel writer 126

O

O’Faolain, Sean 6

Olesha, Yury (1899–1960), prose writer 92, 144

Ostrovsky, Aleksandr (1823–86), dramatist 23, 67

Ovid 13, 38

P

Paine, Thomas (Tom) 43

Panova, Vera (1905–73), prose writer 32, 103, 109, 145

Parnok, Sofiya (1885–1933), poet 114

Parny, Evariste-Désiré de Forges 6

Pasternak, Boris (1890–1960), poet 28, 96, 112–13, 142

Pavlova, Karolina (1807–93), poet 65, 102, 114

peasantry, as represented in literature 130–2

Peter I (reigned 1682–1725), Tsar of Russia 42, 90

Pisarev, Dmitry (1840–68), critic 30, 40, 46

politeness, relationship of with literature 99

Pope, Alexander 43

Prigov, Dmitry (b. 1940), poet 75–6

‘progressiveness’ as merit in Soviet criticism 42–6

Proletcult 136

publishing and printing 32–3

Pushkin, Aleksandr (1799–1837), poet

and authorship

32

–

7

biography of

3

,

13

,

51

,

57

commodification of

19

–

20

cult of

39

–

40

,

42

–

6

,

52

,

59

and French literature

6

manuscripts of

18

,

39

,

75

,

106

monuments to

16

–

17

,

22

museums of

16

–

17

as ‘negro’

120

,

121

and Orientalism

118

–

20

parodies of

70

–

2

and religion

138

–

9

,

142

as salon poet

100

,

104

in schools

48

,

50

as stylist

7

,

14

–

15

,

69

translated

8

–

11

and women’s writing

106

–

8

Works:

Angelo

80

Boris Godunov

64

,

80

The Captain’s Daughter

36

,

48

,

53

Count Nulin

76

‘Desert Fathers’

107

‘The Drowned Man’

61

–

2

Dubrovsky

50

Egyptian Nights

16

,

18

,

65

Evgeny Onegin

3

,

4

,

22

,

35

,

45

,

53

,

67

–

8

,

76

,

79

,

98

,

138

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai

120

The Gabrieliad

74

,

138

The Gypsies

118

‘I loved you’

72

,

106

Journey to Erzerum

118

–

19

Letters

7

,

64

The Little House at Kolomna

76

,

77

–

8

Little Tragedies

63

‘Monument’

10

–

12

,

48

,

62

‘The Poet’

99

‘The Poet and the Mob’

102

The Prisoner of the Caucasus

119

,

121

‘The Prophet’

9

,

62

Queen of Spades

55

,

64

,

68

–

9

,

70

,

71

,

78

Ruslan and Ludmilla

3

,

129

Skazki

(verse tales)

129

Tales of Belkin

129

Goncharova-Pushkina, Natalya (1812–1863), wife of Pushkin 25, 31, 111, 23

R

Rabelais, François 8

Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873–1943), composer 103

Radishchev, Aleksandr 41, 43, 46

Rembrandt van Rijn 146

Remizov, Aleksey (1877–1957), prose writer, artist 44–5, 132, 145

Repin, Ilya (1844–1930), painter 19

Romanticism 16–17, 61–2

Rosenthal, Charlotte 113

Rosetti, Christina 43

Rostopchina, Evdokiya (1811–58), poet 108, 114–15

Rowse, A. L. 51

Rozanov, Vasily (1856–1919), essayist 138, 148

S

salons 100–1

Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail (1826–89), satirist 41, 52, 83–4

Sartre, Jean-Paul 4

Scott, Walter 48

Sedakova, Olga (b. 1949), poet 145–6

Sentimentalism 99, 106

serial novels 36, 38

Seth, Vikram 5

Shaginyan, Marietta (1888–1982), prose writer and poet 103

Shakespeare, William vi, 9, 12–13, 15, 51, 62, 80

Shalamov, Varlam (1907–82), prose writer 71, 94–5

Shaw, Thomas Budge 8

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 9, 115

Shepherd, David viii, 91

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 8

Shklovsky, Viktor (1893–1984), Formalist critic 133

Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906–75), composer 73

Shpet, Gustav (1879–1937), neo-Slavophile thinker 6

Shvarts, Elena (b. 1948), poet 18

Sinyavsky, Andrey (1925–97, also wrote as ‘Abram Terts’), prose writer 63, 74, 93, 139

Sipovsky, V. V. (1872–1930), literary historian 110

skaz 132

Slavophile movement 6, 140–1, 147–8

Socialist Realism 87–8, 90, 109, 136, 145

Solovyov, Vladimir (1853–1900), religious philosopher 140

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (b. 1918), prose writer 51, 93, 94, 95–6, 151

Spivak, Gayatri 108

Staël, Germaine de 107

Stalin, Joseph, Soviet leader 44, 52, 87

Stratford 19, 25

Surkov, Aleksandr (1899–1983), poet 88

Swift, Jonathan 43

T

Tchaikovsky, Petr (1840–93), composer 55

‘Thaw’ 93

Thesiger, Wilfred 122

Thomson, James 43

Tolstaya, Tatyana (b. 1951), prose writer