Contents
Vladimir E. Alexandrov
The "Otherworld" in Nabokov's The Gift 7
Joachim T. Baer
Mikhail Kuzmin's The Miraculous Life of Count Joseph Balsamo Cagliostro: Artfulness and Metaphysics 9
John A. Barnstead
Nabokov, Kuzmin, Chekhov and Gogol' Systems of Reference in "Lips to Lips" 15
Diana Lewis Burgin
Mythical Ballads and Metaballadic Myth in Bryusov's Verse 34
Julian W. Connolly
Boris Vakhtin's "The Sheepskin Coat" and Nikolai Gogol''s "The Overcoat" 50
Anna Lisa Crone
Wood and Trees: Mandel'shtam's Use of Dante's Inferno in "Preserve My Speech" 61
Margaret Dalton
A Russian Best-Seller of the Early Twentieth Century Evdokiya Apollonovna Nagrodskaya's The Wrath of Dionysus 74
Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman
Minskii's Al'ma: A Bridge to the Twentieth Century 87
Joan Delaney Grossman
Bryusov after Symbolism: Mirror of Shades 102
Edythe C. Haber
Teffi's Adventure Novel 140
Norman W. Ingham
The Case of the Unreliable Narrator: Leskov's "White Eagle" 153
Simon Karlinsky
Misanthropy and Sadism in Lermontov's Plays 166
Sonia I. Ketchian
An Inspiration for Anna Akhmatova's Requiem: Hovannes Tumanian 175
Heinrich Kunstmann
Where the Hutsuls Got Their Name 189
Nicholas Lee
Manifestations of the Feminine in Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 197
Vladimir Markov
Some Remarks on Bal'mont's Epigraphs 212
Earl D. Sampson
The Poacher and the Polluter: The Environmental Theme in Nagibin 222
Linda Nadine Saputelli
The Long-Drawn Sunset of Fialta; Robert Szulkin: Nikolai Negorev: A Voice from the Void 233
Robert Szulkin
Nikolai Negorev: A Voice from the Void 243
Walter Vickery
Kyukhel'beker's "On the Death of Chernov" and Lermontov's "The Death of a Poet": The "Foreigners" 255
Lynn Visson
Chekhov's Stories and Music: The Unspoken Language 274
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