Pushkin Review

In his 1820 tongue-in-cheek article in the journal Blagonamerennyi (The Benevolent One), a certain "N. Virsheeskii" complains about the then fashionable "invention" of albums and their detrimental effect on literary culture: "Now all new poems and...

One of only three sonnets Pushkin wrote in his lifetime, "Madona" (1830) is a monument to the union of a poet's life and work. (1) Due in large part to the circumstances of Pushkin's death, reception of the sonnet has focused less on the poem itself...

The critical ambition to use reception as a means by which to gain new insight cannot invariably be fulfilled, yet it is ever the exceptional cases that prove the matter. I wish to examine what appears to be an extraordinarily pointed allusion to Virgil's...

Dreamlore Games. A. S. Pushkin, "Evgenii Oniegin," Igra dlia personal'nago komp'iutera. Moscow: Akella, 2009. <http://www.dreamloregames.com/onegin/> Dreamlore's "Evgenii Oniegin" (title in the old orthography) is not so much a computer game...

Now and then, in the course of events, when the flow of time turns into a muddy torrent and history floods our cellars, earnest people are apt to examine the interrelation between a writer and the national or universal community; and writers themselves...

April 2008 brought together scholars, researchers, teachers, artists, departmental executives, media professionals, students, residents, visitors, and Harvard alumni from numerous disciplines both within and without the academy, and within and beyond...

The title of this paper, "Pushkin as a Poet of Blackness," shades into another title, "Pushkin as a Black Poet." I am taking as my starting point a question one of my colleagues, Irina Reyfman, posed when my co-editors and I were first beginning the...

5 [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] My Genealogy Laughing cruelly at their colleague, This crowd of Russian hacks Calls me an aristocrat: Just look, if you will, at this nonsense! I'm no officer, no assessor, ...

Wikipedia has become a common resource not only for students shirking the rigors of genuine research, but also for scholars seeking a quick and reliable answer to a basic question. In that capacity it has been extremely useful and time-saving to us...

Alexander Pushkin's Poltava concludes with a paean to the subtle traces of human lives a century after their ends. All that "goes on four feet, two feet and three feet ... and is most feeble when it walks on four" passes to dust, thereafter existing...

It has been widely assumed that Alexander Pushkin's Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831) were inspired by the oeuvre of Sir Walter Scott, and most notably by Scott's Tales of my Landlord, Collected and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (1816-19)...

Paul Debreczeny will always be remembered with love and gratitude by those who were fortunate enough to have met him and worked with him. His importance as not only a scholar and teacher, but also as ah extraordinary human being, is testified to in...

The subject of Pushkin and his "blackness" is one that continues to attract American students of Russian. For this reason, Pushkin Review has attempted to assess the resource most likely to be the one our undergraduates first consult upon investigating...

In the winter of 2006 Simon Morrison offered me a unique directing opportunity, perhaps the most interesting and challenging I've yet faced. The task at hand: to create a production of one of Russia's best-known plays, almost completely unknown in...

In the Boris-related courses offered through the Slavic Department, one obstacle to visualizing the Meyerhold production was the paucity of designed sets and fully blocked scenes. We knew how the production was supposed to sound, and at which points...

Dedicated to J. Thomas Shaw with gratitude for his scholarship and generosity of spirit More often than not at the beginning of the nineteenth century the genre signal "zapiski" was used as the Russian equivalent of the French term "memoires," that...

After 1837, blood and poetry both rang differently in the ears. --Osip Mandel'shtam, The Noise of Time How (even with all hindsight) can we know the true ephebe, the potentially strong poet, from the mass of ocean's nurslings around him? By hearing...

In recognition of Professor Shaw's lifetime work and numerous contributions to the field of Pushkin studies in North America, we are including two special sections to the journal for this issue. Part 1: (1) Contest for the best rhymed translation...

In 2006 the first volume appeared of a projected new collection of Pushkin's works: Pushkin: Poemy i povesti. Chast' I. Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2006. Commentary by Oleg Proskurin. The complete edition is entitled Pushkin. Sochineniia. Kommentirovannoe...

Most writers steal a good thing when they can, And 't is safely got't is worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect'em, Before they ever dream that we suspect'em. (1) Pushkin and Cornwall: The Nature of Scholarly Work...

The dilemma of the literary exile is the writer's awareness of the need both to point out his distance from home and yet also continue a literary presence there. How does Pushkin's attempt to make readers aware of his absence and yet create a powerful...

Tat'iana's dream in Evgenii Onegin is an enigma. Occupying a central place in Pushkin's novel in verse, it shares the role of novelistic artifact with the protagonists' letters and its folk song. Dreams, in particular, hold sway as indicators of special...

Where the event of a great action is left doubtful, there the Poet is left Master. Dryden, preface to Don Sebastian The rumors surrounding the role of Antonio Salieri in the death of Mozart have transformed these artists into the subjects of...

Proletkult, poetry, and Pushkin. Quite a combination, if you think about it. Add the poet Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939) into the mix, and the likelihood of pedagogical success seems slim, at best. The publication of a number of documents from...

Introduction Pushkin published too late for his reputation to reach Byron. He appears in neither of John Bowring's anthologies of Russian poetry, at least one of which Byron knew: (1) if Byron had read a Bowring-ized version of The Fountain of Bakhchisarai,...

The Pushkin course introduced at the University of Oregon twenty years ago is designed to accommodate students with or without Russian. Without close reading and discussion of texts, a Pushkin course would lose much of its value. Our compromise has...

Eugene Onegin--like champagne Its effervescence stirs my brain. (Vikram Seth, A Golden Gate, 1986) "Poetry as we know it is dying." Thus David Bethea opens his 1998 book on Alexander Pushkin (3); similar laments on undergraduates' "bewilderment"...