Pushkin Review/Pushkinskii Vestnik

Pushkin Review/Pushkinskii Vestnik publishes new scholarly articles in Russian or English on Pushkin, his era, and his legacy in Russian literature and culture; translations; archival materials; bibliographic rarities; new and interviews from the field of Pushkin studies; and book reviews.
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- Frequency: One volume (one issue) per year
- ISSN/eISSN: 1526-1476/2165-0683
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- To submit new work to the journal, email a Word File to the editors Joe Peschio (peschio@uwm.edu) and Igor Pilshchikov (pilshchikov@ucla.edu). Please ensure that the citations in your submission are formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style. The editors welcome email queries on the journal or submitting work for consideration.
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Pushkin Review---Пушкинский Вестник
Articles---Статьи
Alina Bodrova
Между литературным сообществом и индивидуальным
жизнетворчеством: Пушкин и Вольное общество
любителей российской словесности 1
Igor Pilshchikov
Navigium amoris and an Encounter in Mikhailovskoe
(Pushkin-Zhukovsky-Florian-Cervantes) 21
Tatiana Kitanina
Сводня грустно за столом... : K истории и интерпретации 51
Oleg Proskurin
Тяжкий млат (О генезисе одного образа в Полтавеa ) 67
Elena Pedigo Clark
Twenty-First-Century Prisoners of the Caucasus: Scapegoats and
Sacrificial Lambs in Aleksei Uchitel's Captive 75
Reviews---Рецензии
Kathleen Scollins
Yuliya Ilchuk, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2021. xvi +268 pp.
ISBN 978-1487508258. 97
Ingrid Kleespies
Susan Layton, Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021. x + 468 pp. ISBN 978-1644694206. 103
Bella Grigoryan
Il'ia Vinitskii, Graf Sardinskii: Dmitrii Khvostov i russkaia
kul'tura. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie: Nauchnoe prilozhenie
159. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. 352 pp.
ISBN 978-5444806074. 107
James H. McGavran III
Alexander Pushkin, Selected Poetry. Translated with an
introduction and notes by Antony Wood. London: Penguin
Classics, 2020. liv + 280 pp. ISBN 978-0241207130. 109
Alexandra Smith
Igor' Nemirovskii, Pushkinó liberten i prorok. Moscow:
Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. 352 pp.
ISBN 978-5444807194. 113
Igor Pilshchikov
Ilya Perelmuter, Russische Poesie in deutschen ‹Übersetzungen:
Bibliographie ausgewählter Werke. Wien: danzig & unfried, 2020.
450 pp. ISBN 978-3902752246 (print). ISBN 978-3902752765
(e-book, pdf). 115
Pushkin Review---Пушкинский Вестник
Articles---Статьи
Lada Panova
Pushkin’s Patrimony and the Rhetoric of “Russianness” in
Vladislav Khodasevich’s Poem “Not by my mother, but by a
Tula peasant woman...” 1
Andrei Dobritsyn
Пушкинская «Гавриилиада», мадригал Батюшкова:
Французские истоки либертинской трактовки Благовещения 39
Ilya Vinitsky
«Прием Гавриила» и американское эротическое воображение:
Перевод как захват 69
Translations---Переводы
Yuri Lotman
Two Sections from the Commentary to Eugene Onegin
Translated and with Commentary by Laura E. Matthews
The Education and Service of Nobles 111
The Interests and Pursuits of a Noblewoman 127
Interviews---Интервью
The Poetry of Grammar and Ungrammaticality
Alexander Zholkovsky interviewed by the editors of
Pushkin Review 135
Bibliography---Библиография
Selected Bibliography of Alexander Zholkovsky’s Works on Pushkin
Compiled and annotated by Alexander Zholkovsky and
Igor Pilshchikov 169
Chronicle of Pushkin Scholarship---Летопись пушкинистики
Benjamin Musachio
Pushkinalia III, 2020: “Вновь я посетил...”: Pushkin in Transit
(Conference Report) 179
Reviews---Рецензии
Victoria Juharyan
Jillian Porter. Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under
Nicholas I. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017.
xi + 198 pp. ISBN 978-0-8101-3544-4. 189
Peter Orte
Ilya Vinitsky. Vasily Zhukovsky’s Romanticism and the Emotional
History of Russia. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,
2015. xi + 375 pp. ISBN 978-0-810-13098-2. 193
Elena Pedigo Clark
Daria Khitrova. Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden
Age of Russian Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
2019. x + 296 pp. Index. ISBN 978-0299322106. 197
Valeria Sobol
Anne Lounsbery. Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, an
imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 344 pp. ISBN 978-1501747922. 199
Pushkin Review---Пушкинский Вестник
Contents
Pushkinalia---Пушкиналия
Ilya Vinitsky and Michael Wachtel
Introducing the Pushkinalia 1
Alexey Balakin
Из бумаг И. Е. Велипольского: К истории его ссоры с
Пушкиным в августе 1826-ого года 5
Edyta M. Bojanowska
Pushkin’s “To The Slanderers of Russia”:
The Slavic Question, Imperial Anxieties, and Geopolitics 11
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
“Vot muza, rezvaia boltun ́ia...”: Poetic Form as a
Window onto Pushkin’s Playful Ethical “Doublespeak” 35
Oleg Proskurin
“Медный всадник”:
Поэтическая символика в свете внешней политики 53
Ilya Vinitsky
Byron’s Teeth: Alexander Pushkin and the Romantic Body 85
Michael Wachtel
Pushkin’s Turn to Folklore 107
Articles---Статьи
Irina Anisimova
Between Nation and Empire: Alexander Pushkin’s
The Captain’s Daughter 155
Gary Rosenshield
Napoleon and Alexander I in Pushkin’s Pre-exile Poetry 179
Translations---Переводы
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
“The Snowslide” and “...Again I visit” 209
James MacGavran
“The Heavenly Language of Hellas”:
Pushkin’s Elegiac Distichs 213
Reviews---Рецензии
Emily Wang
Bella Grigoryan. Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and
the Gentry, 1762–1861. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University
Press, 2018. xii + 189 pp. ISBN 978-0-87580-774-4. 225
Kathleen Scollins
Irina Reyfman. How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and
the Imperial Table of Ranks. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2016. ix + 237 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-30830-8 229
Alexandra Smith
Gary Rosenshield. Challenging the Bard: Dostoevsky and
Pushkin. A Study of a Literary Relationship. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. 318 pp.
ISBN 978-0-299-29354-3 233
Lev Nikulin
Kathleen Scollins. Acts of Logos in Pushkin and Gogol:
Petersburg Texts and Subtexts. Brighton: Academic Studies
Press, 2017. xiii + 278 pp. ISBN 9781618115836 (e-book),
ISBN 9781618115829 (cloth) 235
Contents
Translations
From the Archives of Pushkin Scholarship: Three Essays, edited by Michael Wachtel
Michael Wachtel
Introduction 1
Mark Azadovsky
The Sources of Pushkin’s Fairy Tales (Translated by James McGavran) 5
Yuri Lotman
The Duel (Translated by Laura E. Christians) 41
Mikhail Gasparov
The Semantic Aura of Pushkin’s Trochaic Tetrameter (Translated by Michael Wachtel) 55
Pushkin Is Our Comrade: Mikhail Lifshitz and Andrei Platonov on the Legacy of Russia’s Classic Writer in the Soviet 1930s, edited by Ania Aizman, Jason Cieply, and Pavel Khazanov
Pavel Khazanov
Mikhail Lifshitz and the Dialectical Politics of Art in the USSR 67
Mikhail Lifshitz
On Pushkin. Letter to G. M. Fridlender, 8 April 1938 (Translated by Pavel Khazanov) 75
Jason Cieply
Andrei Platonov and the “Living Dialectic” of the “Pushkinian Person” 87
Andrei Platonov
Pushkin Is Our Comrade (Translated by Ania Aizman) 101
Andrei Platonov
Pushkin and Gorky (Translated by Jason Cieply) 117
Article
Geoff Cebula
Pushkin and the Death of the Poet in Alexander Vvedensky’s “Where. When” 141
Reviews
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
Michael Wachtel. A Commentary to Pushkin’s Lyric Poetry: 1826– 1836. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 404 pp.
ISBN 978-029928544-9 159
Emily Wang
Joe Peschio. The Poetics of Impudence and Intimacy in the Age of Pushkin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
xii + 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-29044-3 163
Contents
Articles
Matthew Spellberg
On Laughter and Dreaming in Pushkin 1
Jonathan Brooks Platt
Where Are Liberty and Law? Subjectivizing the Naïve in Chénier, Pushkin, and Lermontov 25
Leslie O’Bell
Onegin’s Album: A Creative and Literary Crossroads 49
Bella Grigoryan
The Poet Turned Journalist: Alexander Pushkin and the Reading Public 61
Sidney Eric Dement
The Lifelike Statues of Ovid and Pushkin’s Orthodoxy 85
Maksim Hanukai
Tragedy in the Balkans: Pushkin’s Critique of Romantic Ideology in The Gypsies 107
In Memoriam
Caryl Emerson and Ivan Eubanks
Tim Vasen (1964–2015) 135
Translations
Boris Dralyuk
Three Poems from the Golden Age:
Vasily Zhukovsky’s “9 March 1823,”
Konstantin Batyushkov’s “You wake, o Baiae, from your tomb,”
and Yevgeny Baratynsky’s “The Muse” 137
“Eugene Onegin” on the Stage
Caryl Emerson
Tairov’s Theater, Evreinov’s Monodramatic Moment, and the
Lessons of “Eugene Onegin”: A Scenic Projection 1
Caryl Emerson
Preface to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Eugene Onegin 25
James E. Falen, trans.
“Eugene Onegin”: A Scenic Projection 33
Articles
Brian Horowitz
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the New Soviet State:
Pavel Sakulin and the Pushkin Edition of 1931–36 181
Kathleen Scollins
Cursing at the Whirlwind:
The Old Testament Landscape of The Bronze Horseman 205
John Lyles
Bloody Verses: Rereading Pushkin’s Prisoner of the Caucasus 233
Reviews
Gary Saul Morson
David M. Bethea. The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically.
Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2009. 432 pp.
ISBN 978-1-934843-17-8. Cloth. 255
Ivan Eubanks
Review of Roger Clarke’s Series of Pushkin in English 259
David Gasperetti
Katya Hokanson. Writing at Russia’s Border. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2008. x + 301 pp.
ISBN 978-0- 8020-9306-6. Cloth. 263
Articles on Pushkin
Тимур Гузаиров
«Simplicité niaise» А. С. Пушкина: Выбор и организация фактов в «Истории Пугачевского бунта» 1
А. Левашов и С. Ляпин
«Медный Всадник» А. С. Пушкина: проблема текста 13
Ingrid Kleespies
Traveling Domestics: The Penates and the Poet in
Pushkin’s Lyric Verse 27
Archival Materials
“The Green Lamp Archive”
Edited with commentary by Joe Peschio and Igor Pilshchikov 53
Articles on Pushkin's Contemporaries
Angela Brintlinger
Inaugural Introduction to the Pushkin Review’s
Section on Pushkin’s Contemporaries 97
Anna Aydinyan
Griboedov’s Project of the Russian Transcaucasian
Company and the Ideas of the European Enlightenment 101
Justin Wilmes
Reading Griboedov’s Woe from Wit as a
“Chekhovian” Tragicomedy 125
Jennifer Wilson
Griboedov in Bed: Meyerhold’s Woe to Wit and the
Staging of Sexual Mores in the NEP Era 143
News of the Profession
Roger Clarke
New Series of Pushkin Editions in English 147
Reviews
Angela Brintlinger
Andrew Kahn, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin. Introduction by Andrew Kahn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 238. Illustrations. Chronology. Map. Appendix. Index. ISBN-0-521-60471-0. Paper 163
Svetlana Klimova
Stephanie de Montalk. The Fountain of Tears. Wellington,
New Zealand: Victoria University Press, Victoria University of Wellington.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 240 pp.
ISBN 0-86473-531-6 165