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skaz the literary device of a folksy, oral, usually digressive narrator, p. 201. skazka folk tale; fairy tale, p. 60. skomorokh (pl. skomorokhi) traveling minstrel, p. 39. Skot´ınin “Mr. Pig,” or “Brute,” speaking name from Denis Fonvizin’s comedy

The Minor (1781), p. 86. Slavophile nineteenth-century writers and lay philosophers opposed to borrowing from other national traditions and favoring a uniquely “Russian” culture

untainted by the West, p. 12. sluchai chance, p. 105. smekh laughter, p. 41. sobor synod, assembly; cathedral, p. 61. sobornost' togetherness; a sense of spiritual, ideological, or cultural togetherness,

p. 31. Sofya “Wisdom,” speaking name from Denis Fonvizin’s comedy The Minor

(1781) and also The Brigadier (1769), p. 86. sotsial'nyi zakaz social command, p. 193. soyuz union, p. 198. Starodum “Old Thought,” speaking name from Denis Fonvizin’s comedy The

Minor (1781), p. 86. stolnik a high-ranking official responsible for serving the tsar at table, p. 48. strannik (f. stra´nnitsa) wanderer, p. 36. strastoterpets passion-sufferer, p. 62. Svoi krug “Our Crowd” (title of Lyudm´ıla Petrushevskaya’s short story),

p. 232.

tamizdat lit. “published elsewhere,” works smuggled out of the Soviet Union and

published in the West, p. 238. toska melancholy, grief, anguish, p. 50. tsarevich son of the tsar (prince, in the Western sense), p. 41. tselostnost' wholeness, p. 31.

274 Glossary

vashe prevoskhod´ıtel'stvo Your Excellency; the appropriate mode of address for

third and fourth ranks in the Table of Ranks, p. 101. vashe vysokoblagorodie Your High Honor; appropriate for sixth, seventh, or

eighth rank, p. 101. vashe vysokoprevoskhod´ıtel'stvo Your High Excellency; appropriate for the first

or second rank in the Table of Ranks, p. 101. vashe vysokorodie Your Highly Born; appropriate for the fifth rank in the Table

of Ranks, p. 101. vertet'sya to revolve, spin, p. 62. Vestnikova “Tattler,” speaking name from Catherine the Great’s comedy O! The

Times! (1769), p. 85. vlast' power (political), p. 23. voda water, p. 62. vozdukh air, p. 62.

“Vprok” the title of Platonov’s short story, “For Future Use,” p. 203. vremya time, p. 62. vruchenie sebya self-giving, the giving or “handing over” of oneself without the

motive of personal gain, p. 77.

yurodivy (f. yurodivaya) holy fool, p. 39.

yurodstvo Khrista radi holy foolishness for the sake of Christ, p. 41.

zap´ıski notes or diary entries, p. 11.

zastoi Stagnation; usually refers to the years of cultural and economic stagnation

under Brezhnev (1970s-84), p. 220. zemlya earth (as in soil), p. 62. zhitie [pronounced “zhitiyeh”] saint’s life (hagiographic text), p. 62.

People

Afanasiev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich (1826-71) Russian collector of fairy tales,

p. 68. Akhmatova, Anna Andreyevna (1889-1966) p. 30. Works by: “Requiem.” Ak´ımov, Nikolai Pavlovich (1901-68) p. 210.

Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich (1791-1859) p. 45. Works by: Family Chronicle. Akunin, Bor´ıs (pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishv´ıli, b. 1958) p. 97. Works by:

Azazel' [Eng. The Winter Queen]; Seagull, The: A Comedy and its Continuation. Alexander Nevsky (r. 1236-63) p. 59. Alexander Romanov I (r. 1801-25) p. 24. Alexander Romanov II (r. 1855-81) p. 12. Alexander Romanov III (r. 1881-94) p. 132. Avvakum, Protopop (1620-82) p. 45. Works by: “The Life of Archpriest Avva-

kum, Written by Himself.”

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Babel, Isaak Emmanu´ılovich (1894-1941) p. 47. Works by: Red Cavalry.

Bakht´ın, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1975) p. 15.

Behrs, Sofya Andreyevna (later S. A. Tolstaya) p. 151.

Bel´ınsky Vissarion Grigorievich (1811-48) p. 14.

BelyAndrei (pseudonym of Bugaev, Bor´ıs Nikolaevich, 1880-1934) p. 17.Works by: “Magic of Words, The”; Petersburg.

Berdyaev, [Nicolas] Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1874-1948) p. 22. Works by: Rus-sian Idea, The.

B´ıtov, Andrei Georgievich (b. 1937) p. 17. Works by: Pushkin House.

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1880-1921) p. 182. Works by: “Intelligentsia and Revolution, The”; Twelve, The.

Bor´ıs Godunov (r. 1598-1605) p. 59.

Borod´ın, Aleksandr Porf´ırievich (1833-77) p. 44. Works by: Prince Igor.

Brodsky, Joseph Aleksandrovich (1940-96) p. 220.

Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich (1873-1924) p. 243.

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich (1891-1940) p. 16. Works by: “Adventures of Chichikov, The”; “Diaboliad”; Fatal Eggs, The; Heart of a Dog; Master and Margarita, The.

Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich (1870-1953) p. 221.

Catherine Romanova [Ekaterina Romanova] I (r. 1725-27) p. 93.

Catherine Romanova [Ekaterina Romanova] II (the Great) (r. 1762-96) p. 80.

Works by O! The Times! Chaadaev, Pyotr Yakovlevich (1794-1856) p. 4. Chapayev, Vasily (1887-1919) p. 243. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904) p. 12. Works by: “Black Monk, The”;