The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

Afanasiev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich 68,

192 Akhmatova, Anna Andreyevna 30, 192,233,236 “Requiem” 217,218,233,235 Akimov, Nikolai Pavlovich 210, 211 Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich

Family Chronicle 45 Akunin, Boris (pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili) 220, 237, 243-47 Azazel' [Eng. The Winter Queen]

97, 244, 245-46 Seagull, The. A Comedy and its Continuation 246 Alexander I, Tsar 24, 99, 100 Alexander II, Tsar 12, 56, 63, 125,

170 Alexander III, Tsar 132 Avvakum Petrovich, Protopop “The Life of Archpriest Avvakum, Written by Himself” 45

Baba Yaga 66, 67, 68-70, 84, 122, 188,

227,236 Babel, Isaak Emmanuilovich 48,195,

201,221 Red Cavalry 47 Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich 15,

17-18, 19, 34, 134, 136, 143, 153,

182, 199,230, 249 Behrs, Sofya Andreyevna (later S. A.

Tolstaya) 151 Belinsky, Vissarion Grigorievich 14,

126, 199

Bely, Andrei (pseudonym of Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich) 166, 172, 173, 179, 181, 189, 204 Petersburg 17, 171–72, 174, 178, 181, 183, 226 Berdyaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich 241

The Russian Idea 22 binary oppositions (as a cultural category) 18–22, 143, 164, 175, 183, 192–95, 223 city vs. countryside 26–30, 43, 135,

141, 187–88, 189, 212 civilian vs. military 46, 47, 116, 140,

150 empire vs. hearth 32–33 free vs. unfree 45–46, 104–06, 127,

130, 145, 150, 192, 194 poetry vs. prose 4–7, 18, 106–07,

127, 153–55 Russia vs. West 76, 80–97, 110, 126,

169 sacred vs. demonic 30–32, 35–36,

73, 76, 119–21, 172, 175 settlers vs. wanderers 46–47, 213 Bitov, Andrei Georgievich 236–38

Pushkin House 17, 236–38 Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich 182–83, 241 “Intelligentsia and Revolution, The”

182 Twelve, The 182–83, 217, 243 Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirievich 44

Prince Igor 44 Brodsky, Joseph Aleksandrovich 220