xiv 324 pages, indexed, bibliography. First American edition. The front of the price clipped jacket has a stain at the head, the remants of a price sticker (?),and the front flap is creased along the outer edge; the front end paper is also clipped at the head and the pages are tanned, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy which appears unread. CONTENTS: Vladislav Khodasevich on The song of Igor's campaign Alexandr Pushkin on Gavrila Derzhavin and other matters Alexei Veselovsky on Denis Fonvizin Sergei Andreevsky on Evgeny Baratynsky Marina Tsvetaeva on Alexandre Pushkin Vladislav Khodasevich on Pushkin Boris Eichenbaum on Pushkin Alexandr Slonimsky on Pushkin Alexei Veselovsky on Alexandr Griboedov Osip Mandelstam on Pyotr Chaadaev Innokenty Annensky on Mikhail Lermontov Valery Briusov on Fyodor Tiutchev Yury Tynyanov on Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol Dr. N.N. Bazhenov on Gogol Andrei Bely on Gogol D.N. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky on Gogol and Ivan Goncharov Yuly Aikhenvald on Alexandr Herzen Innokenty Annensky on Fyodor Dostoevsky Mikhail Kuzmin's 1907 short story "Aunt Sonya's sofa" Viktor Shklovsky on Leo Tolstoy Ivan Goncharov on Ivan Turgenev Leonid Grossman on Turgenev Vasily Sleptsov on Alexandr Ostrovsky Leonid Grossman on Apollon Grigorev Maxim Gorky on Vasily Sleptsov Vsevolod Meyerhold on the Russian theater Pyotr Bitsilli on Anton Chekhov Valerian Chudovsky on Nikolai Nekrasov and Dmitri Merezhkovsky Vyacheslav Ivanov on Innokenty Annensky Alexandr Blok on Fyodor Sologub Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik on Andrei Bely Zinaida Gippius on Alexandr Blok Viktor Shklovsky on the development of literary criticism and poetry Ilya Ehrenburg on Vladimir Mayakovsky Viktor Shklovsky on Isaac Babel Mikhail Kuzmin on Russian literature in the early 1920s Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik on the first twenty-five years of Soviet prose Nikolai Chukovsky on Osip Mandelstam Andrei Bely on Vladislav Khodasevich Nikolai Chukovsky on Nikolai Zabolotsky Gaito Gazdanov on Boris Poplavsky Nikolay Andreyev on Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov) Vladimir Weidle on Sirin Andrei Sinyavsky on Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Voznesensky, and Bulat Okadzhava Andrei Sinyavsky's final plea before being sentenced A small pantheon of Russian writers.