The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

254 Notes to pages 56–66

Letter from Turgenev to the poet Afanasy Fet, April 6, 1862, cited here from the Norton Critical Edition of Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, trans. and ed. Michael R. Katz (New York: Norton, 1994), p. 174.

For a discussion of Maksim Gorky’s views on Dostoevsky, see Vladimir Seduro, Dostoyevski in Russian Literary Criticism 1846–1956 (New York: Octagon Books, 1969), pp. 83–93.

3 Traditional narratives

Isabel de Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), p. 155.

For a lucid introduction, see Dmitry S. Likhachev [Likhachov], dean of Russian medievalists, especially his “Religion: Russian Orthodoxy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, ed. Nicholas Rzhevsky (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 38–56; and Dmitry Likhachov, The Great Heritage: The Classical Literature of Old Rus (Moscow: Progress, 1981), especially “The First Seven Hundred Years of Russian Literature,” pp. 7–31.

With the exception of the folk tales and the folk epic Ilya Muromets, all texts discussed in this chapter (plus other vital genres such as chronicles, sermons, laments, and historical tales) can be found in Serge Zenkovsky, ed., Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales (New York: Dutton, 1963). Referred to in body of text as Z.

The best introduction to “dual faith” remains George P. Fedotov, The Russian Religious Mind: Kievan Christianity, the 10th to the 13th Centuries (Belmont, MA: Nordland, 1975), chs. 1, 2, and 4.

Simon Franklin, “Nostalgia for Hell: Russian Demonism and Orthodox Tradition,” in Russian Literature and its Demons, ed. Pamela Davidson (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000), pp. 31–58, esp. 40.

Faith Wigzell, “The Russian Folk Devil and His Literary Reflections,” in Russian Literature and its Demons, ed. Pamela Davidson (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000), pp. 59–86, esp. 67.

For a pathbreaking study of Russian paganism and early Christianity from the perspective of their female traits, see Joanna Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), especially ch. 3 on Mother Earth.

Katerina Clark, “Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual Sacrifice,” ch. 8, The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual, 3rd edn. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 178–82.

John Garrard and Carol Garrard, Faith and Patriotism in the New Russia: From Party to Patriarch (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming), especially ch. 6, “A Faith-Based Army.”

10 Max Lu¨thi, The European Folktale: Form and Nature, trans. John D. Niles (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982), p. 85.