Table of Contents for Commemorating Pushkin

Introduction: Transformative Myths and Acts of Possession

1.      Pushkin Is Dead: The Elegies of Mikhail Lermontov, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Evdokia Rosopchina

2.      The Making of Museum Culture: The Poet’s Spirit and the Work of Remembrance

3.      Solid Gold Pushkin: Anniversary Commemorations and the Time Lines of a Story

4.      Document, Fidelity, and the Cinematic Edge

5.      Anna Akhmatova’s Pushkin: Allegories, Ethics, Grieving for the Dead

6.      Marina Tsvetaeva’s Pushkin and the Poet’s Identities

7.      Andrei Bitov and the Mystifications of Self and Story

Afterward: Ending/Beginning with Andrei Sinyavsky/Abram Tertz