The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

280 Glossary

Bashk´ır, Steppe p. 45.

Belomor [“White Sea”] Canal p. 225.

Boldino Pushkin’s estate, where he had two legendarily productive autumns, p.

106. Borodino site of an extremely bloody battle between the Russians and Napoleon’s

army near Moscow in 1812, p. 150.

Caucasus, Mountains p. 28.

Chechnya p. 13.

Chern´ıgov p. 72.

Chud (pronounced chood), Lake p. 59.

Dnieper, River p. 175.

Don, River p. 175.

Dushanbe formerly Stalinabad, in Soviet Taj´ıkistan, p. 210.

Ekibastuz Soviet prison camp, p. 224.

Kazan p. 72.

Kiev former capital of Rus', now capital of Ukraine, p. 44.

K´ıtezh (pronounced Keetezh), p. 29.

Klopsko A monastery located near the northern city of Novgorod, p. 63.

Kolyma p. 225.

Leningrad Soviet name for St. Petersburg from 1924-91 (see also Petrograd, St. Petersburg), p. 42.

Magnitogorsk p. 25. Moscow p. 1. Murom p. 72.

Novgorod p. 40.

Ob’, River p. 45. Oka, River p. 72. Oryol p. 74.

Petersburg St. Petersburg (see also Petrograd and Leningrad), p. 28. Petrograd Slavic equivalent of the Germanic-sounding Petersburg (“Peter’s

city”), so renamed in 1914 by Nicholas II as a patriotic move during World

War I, p. 15.

Riga p. 72.

Sakhal´ın Island a penal colony north of Japan, p. 133. Sevastopol battle site in the Crimean War, p. 125.