Selected Essays

Index of Names

Abraham, 42, 201

Adalis (Adelina Efron), 134, 230

Adam, 27, 42, 73, 77, 199; and Eve, 200

Aeschylus, 149

Aikhenvald, Iuly, 89, 225

Akhmatova, Anna, xiii, 54, 77, 81, 148, 150, 220, 230

Aksenov, I. A., 133

Alighieri, Dante, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xviii, 3–34, 93, 107, 188, 197, 212, 213, 214, 237

Andreev, Leonid, 139, 231

Annensky, Innokenty, 73, 74, 75, 146, 147, 148, 222

Apukhtin, Aleksei, 148, 232

Archilochus, 97

Aristophanes, xx

Aristotle, 7, 26

Arrowsmith, William, 211

Arshak, 206, 207, 239

Aseev, Nikolai, 54, 135, 136, 152, 219

Averbakh, Leopold, 234

Averroës, Ibn Rushd, 7, 213

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 12, 23, 129, 131, 183, 223

Bachelard, Gaston, xvi, 210

Balmont, Konstantin, xiii, xxii, 60, 61, 63, 73, 92, 145, 146, 221

Balzac, Honoré de, 86, 138

Baratynsky, Evgeny. See Boratynski, Evgeny

Batiushkov, Konstantin, 44, 81, 153, 218

Baudelaire, Charles, 21, 51, 94, 145, 226

Beatrice (B. Portinari), 16, 21, 29, 39

Beethoven, Ludwig van, xviii, 125, 126, 223

Berberova, Nina, 220, 231

Bergson, Henri, 66

Bezymensky, Alexander I., 192, 239

Biely, Andrei (Boris N. Bugaev), xiii, xix, xxiv, 69, 92, 134, 138, 139, 140, 141, 145, 147, 212–213, 222, 225

Bizet, Georges, 91

Blagoi, Dmitry D., 163, 236

Blok, Alexander, xix, 16, 89–93, 136, 146, 150, 151, 215, 225, 226

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 12

Böhme, Jakob, xvii

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 86, 198, 218

Boratynsky, Evgeny (also spelled Baratynsky), 59, 60, 61, 149, 220

Bosio, Angelina, 165, 236, 237

Brahms, Johannes, 31

Briusov, Valery, 78, 92, 145, 147, 148, 220

Brodsky, Joseph, xx

Brown, Clarence, xxi, 209, 210, 213, 229, 230, 236, 237, 239

Bruno, Giordano, 37

Buckle, Henry Thomas, 78, 223

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 196

Bugaev, Boris N. See Biely, Andrei

Bukharin, Nikolai I., xxiii, 164, 234, 236

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 235

Bürger, Gottfried August, 32

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 110, 238

Caesar, Gaius Julius, 7

Catullus, Gaius Valerius, xxii, 50, 51, 219

Cavalcanti, Guido, 10

Cézanne, Paul, 193

Chaadaev, Peter, xii, xvii, 70, 71, 101–107, 222, 227

Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de, 110

Chénier, André, xxii, 78, 108–113, 166, 227, 228, 237

Chénier, Marie-Joseph, 166, 237

Chopin, Frédéric F., 7, 190

Christ, Jesus, xvii, xviii, 124, 125

Cimabue, Giovanni, 18, 215

Cohen, Arthur, xxiii, 209, 211, 212

Columbus, Christopher, 25, 199

Confucius, xiv

Coppée, François, 152, 233

Cyril, 80, 224

Dal, Vladimir, 73

Dante. See Alighieri, Dante

D’Anthès, Georges, 163, 236

Darwin, Charles, 196

David, Jacques Louis, xxi, 50, 218

Delacroix, Eugène, 181, 239

Democritus, 7

Demosthenes, 24

Derzhavin, Gavrila, 55, 65, 67, 94, 149, 219, 221

Dickens, Charles, 197

Dionysus, 125, 126, 220, 229

Dolidze, Fedor I., 133, 230

Doré, Gustave, 215

Dostoevsky, Fedor, 10, 138, 226

Dürer, Albrecht, 35

Dymshits, Alexander, xiii, 209, 210

Efron, Adelina. See Adalis

Eikhenbaum, Boris M., 89, 134, 225, 230

Einstein, Albert, 134, 151

Eliot, T. S., xiv, xv, xviii, 210

Erlich, Victor, 230

Esenin, Sergei, 152, 163, 233, 236

Euclid, 67

Euripides, 74, 123

Eve, 200

Fadeev, Alexander, 234

Farinata degli Uberti, 9, 10, 24, 25

Fedin, Konstantin, 141, 232

Fet, Afanasy A., 83, 92, 224

Filipoff, Boris, 209, 210, 218, 221, 228, 229, 230, 235, 237

Firdousi, 200

Flaubert, Gustave, 85, 98, 211

Foucault, Léon, 36

France, Anatole, 157

Frye, Northrop, 213

Gershenzon, Mikhail, 71

Ginzburg, Lidia, 209

Giotto di Bondone, 18

Gippius, V. V., xi

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von, 82, 196, 224

Godunov, Boris, 67, 106, 186, 239

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 87, 99, 187

Gogol, Nikolai, 142, 237

Goldoni, Carlo, 148

Golenishchev-Kutuzov, Arseny, 148, 232

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, 85, 98, 211

Gorky, Maxim (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 139, 231

Gornfeld, Arkady G., 161, 163, 164, 167, 233, 235

Gorodetsky, Sergei M., 77, 222, 229

Griboedov, Alexander S., 235

Grigoriev, Apollon A., xxiv, 90, 225

Grimm, Jacob, 30

Grin, Alexander (Grinevsky, Alexander S.), 161, 235

Gumilev, Nikolai S., xii, 54, 65, 74, 77, 220, 229

Handel, George Frederick, 224

Harte, Bret, 139

Haydn, Franz Joseph, 196

Heidegger, Martin, xvii

Heine, Heinrich, 91

Hemingway, Ernest, xii

Heredia, José Maria de, 21

Herzen, Alexander I., 84, 165, 211, 224, 225, 227

Hesiod, 90

Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, 78, 223, 232

Hokusai, 98

Homer, 41, 51, 73

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 42

Hughes, Robert, 213

Hugo, Victor, 12, 203

Iazykov, Nikolai M., 80, 81, 102, 223

Ibsen, Henrik, 176

Ivanov, Viacheslav I., 54, 55, 74, 78, 145, 147, 211, 219, 229

Ivanov, Vsevolod, 142, 232

Ivanov-Razumnik, Razumnik Vasilevich, 89, 225

Ivask, Iurii (George), 210, 229

Joshua, xviii, 52

Kagan, Benjamin Fedorovich, 157, 235

Kant, Immanuel, 130

Kariakin, V. N., 167, 233

Kataev, Valentin, 234

Khlebnikov, Velemir, 54, 68, 70, 81, 82, 83, 133, 141, 145, 147, 151, 152, 213, 219

Khodasevich, Vladislav, 54, 135, 148, 149, 220, 232

Kipling, Rudyard, 190

Kliuchevsky, Vasily O., xiii, xvii, 90, 226

Kliuev, Nikolai, 152, 233

Korolenko, Vladimir G., 164, 236

Kostomarov, Nikolai I., 90, 226

Kozyrev, Mikhail, 141, 142, 232

Kruchenykh, Aleksei, xiii, 135, 231

Krylov, I. A., 169, 198, 220, 237

Kuzin, B. S., xxiv, 183, 185, 189, 232

Kuzmin, Mikhail A., 54, 81, 148, 149, 219, 221, 232

La Fontaine, Jean de, 198

Lamarck, J.-B. Pierre-Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de, xxiv, xxv, 196, 197, 198

Lamartine, Alphonse de, 110

Latini, Brunetto, 7

Leconte de Lisle, Charles Marie, 21, 74

Lenin (Vladimir I. Ulyanov), 169, 231, 236

Leonardo da Vinci, 18

Leontiev, Konstantin, 71

Leskov, Nikolai, 142, 232

Lidin, Vadim G., 141, 232

Linnaeus, Carolus, 196, 199

Liszt, Franz von, 223

Lobachevsky, Nikolai I., 67

Lomonosov, Mikhail V., 24, 81, 95, 216

Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus), 42

Luther, Martin, xix, 72, 82

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 74, 145

Mandelstam, Isaiah B., 157, 158, 235

Mandelstam, Nadezhda Iakovlevna, xxiii, xxv, 209, 210, 212, 223, 228, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237

Manet, Edouard, 189

Markov, Vladimir, 221

Marot, Clément, 110, 227, 228

Marr, Nikolai I., 174, 179, 202, 238

Marx, Karl, 191

Matisse, Henri, 193

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, xiii, 54, 133, 135, 152, 219, 230

Mérimée, Prosper, 91, 139

Methodius, 80, 224

Mommsen, Theodor, 74, 219

Monet, Claude, 189, 194

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de, 112

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 79, 188, 196, 223

Mravian, Askanaz A., 162, 236

Musset, Alfred de, 112, 149

Nadson, Semen, 63, 148, 221

Napoleon, 86, 198, 218

Narbut, Vladimir, 77, 223

Nekrasov, Nikolai, 65, 71, 90, 92, 147, 221, 226, 236, 237

Nerval, Gérard de, 229

Newton, Sir Isaac, 157

Nikitin, Nikolai N., 141, 142, 232

Novalis (Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg), xv, 41, 78, 91, 218

Odoevsky, Vladimir F., 78

Odysseus, 23, 24, 25

Ogarev, Nikolai P., 84, 225

Orpheus, 124

Ostrovsky, Alexander N., xxiv, 239

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), xxi, xxii, 42, 50, 51, 74, 218, 219, 227

Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky, Dmitry, 55, 220

Pallas, 196

Paracelsus (Philipp Theofrast von Hohenheim), 25

Parnok, Sophie I., 134, 230

Pasternak, Boris, xviii, 54, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 136, 148, 153, 210, 220, 229, 234

Perovsky, Sophie, 90, 226

Peshkov, Aleksei M. See Gorky, Maxim

Peter I, 106, 177

Phaedra, 123, 126

Picasso, Pablo, 194

Pilniak (Boris A. Vogau), 139, 140, 141, 142, 231

Pissarro, Camille, 194

Poe, Edgar Allan, 73, 145

Polotsky, Simeon, 65, 221

Potebnia, Alexander A., 134, 230

Pound, Ezra, xii, xiv, 229

Prishvin, Mikhail M., 141, 142, 232

Prometheus, 100, 126

Propper, Stanislav M., 164, 236

Psyche, xx, xxii, 49, 52

Ptolemy, 37

Punin, Nikolai, 220

Pushkin, Alexander, xxiii, 50, 51, 55, 56, 58, 62, 65, 78, 81, 92, 102, 110, 111, 123–127, 139, 149, 151, 153, 190, 209, 210, 211, 214, 215, 218, 220, 223, 228, 229, 233, 236, 238

Rabelais, François, 78, 110, 139

Racine, Jean, xxii, 76, 78, 110, 229

Radlova, Anna, 134, 230

Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 194

Rimbaud, Arthur, 21, 39

Ripellino, A., 210

Robespierre, Maximilien F. I. de, 50

Rolland, Romain, 87, 99

Rostopchina, Evdokia P., 149, 232

Rozanov, Vasily, xx, 70, 71, 72, 73, 222

Salieri, Antonio, 79, 223

Schelling, Friedrich, xvii, 78

Schubert, Franz, 223

Schwitters, Kurt, 213

Scriabin, Alexander, xvi, 123–127, 210, 211, 228, 229

Serapion Brothers, 139, 140, 141, 142, 231, 232

Sergeev-Tsensky (Sergei Nikolaevich Sergeev), 139, 231

Shakespeare, William, 30, 78, 230

Shapukh (Shapur or Sapores or Pahlavi Shahpur II), 207, 239

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 73, 145

Shklovsky, Victor, 134, 222, 230

Shmelev, Ivan S., 139, 231

Signac, Paul, 181, 239

Singleton, Charles S., 215

Smirnov, E. S., 188

Sologub, Fedor (Fedor K. Teternikov), 54, 61, 63, 146, 147, 148, 220

Soloviev, Sergei M., 90, 226

Soloviev, Vladimir S., 92, 129, 226

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 238

Sorgenfrei, Wilhelm A., 89, 225

Spengler, Oswald, 16, 26

Spohr, Ludwig, 30

Stalin (Joseph V. Djugashvil), 231, 232, 235, 236, 238

Steiner, Rudolf, 222

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 86

Stevens, Wallace, xiv

Struve, Gleb, 209, 210, 218, 221, 228, 229, 230, 235, 237

Sumarokov, Alexander, 148

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 145

Tager, Elena, 211

Taranovsky, Kirill, 211, 229

Terras, Victor, xxi, 211

Teternikov, Fedor K. See Sologub, Fedor

Tiutchev, Fedor I., 26, 70, 129, 149, 222

Tolstoy, Leo, 30, 67, 105

Trediakovsky, Vasily, 81

Trotsky, Leon, 169

Tsvetaeva, Marina, xiii, 25, 134, 217, 230

Tzara, Tristan, 213

Van Gogh, Vincent, 193

Venetsianov, Aleksei G., 158

Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 11, 17, 18, 21, 38, 41, 42

Verhaeren, Emile, 52

Verlaine, Paul, xv, xviii, 21, 53, 110, 114, 118, 219, 228

Veselovsky, A. N., 230

Viazemsky, Peter A., 149, 223

Vigna, Pier della, 188

Villon, François (François de Montcorbier de Loges), xiii, xviii, xxi, xxii, 59, 62, 110, 114–120, 227, 228

Villon, Guillaume de, 115

Vogau, Boris A. See Pilniak

Wagner, Richard, 16

Whitman, Walt, 73

Zamiatin, Evgeny, 139, 142, 231

Zenkevich, Mikhail A., 77, 223

Zhirmunsky, Victor M., 89, 134, 225, 230

Zola, Emile, 86

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 162, 169, 234, 237