Contents: Vladimir E. Alexandrov: The "Otherworld" in Nabokov's The Gift; Joachim T. Baer: Mikhail Kuzmin's The Miraculous Life of Count Joseph Balsamo Cagliostro: Artfulness and Metaphysics; John A. Barnstead: Nabokov, Kuzmin, Chekhov and Gogol': Systems of Reference in "Lips to Lips"; Diana Lewis Burgin: Mythical Ballads and Metaballadic Myth in Bryusov's Verse; Julian W. Connolly: Boris Vakhtin's "The Sheepskin Coat" and Nikolai Gogol''s "The Overcoat"; Anna Lisa Crone: Wood and Trees: Mandel'shtam's Use of Dante's Inferno in "Preserve My Speech"; Margaret Dalton: A Russian Best-Seller of the Early Twentieth Century: Evdokiya Apollonovna Nagrodskaya's The Wrath of Dionysus; Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman: Minskii's Al'ma: A Bridge to the Twentieth Century; Joan Delaney Grossman: Bryusov after Symbolism: Mirror of Shades; Edythe C. Haber: Teffi's Adventure Novel; Norman W. Ingham: The Case of the Unreliable Narrator: Leskov's "White Eagle"; Simon Karlinsky: Misanthropy and Sadism in Lermontov's Plays; Sonia I. Ketchian: An Inspiration for Anna Akhmatova's Requiem: Hovannes Tumanian; Heinrich Kunstmann: Where the Hutsuls Got Their Name; Nicholas Lee: Manifestations of the Feminine in Solzhenitsyn's August 1914; Vladimir Markov: Some Remarks on Bal'mont's Epigraphs; Earl D. Sampson: The Poacher and the Polluter: The Environmental Theme in Nagibin; Linda Nadine Saputelli: The Long-Drawn Sunset of Fialta; Robert Szulkin: Nikolai Negorev: A Voice from the Void; Walter Vickery: Kyukhel'beker's "On the Death of Chernov" and Lermontov's "The Death of a Poet": The "Foreigners"; Lynn Visson: Chekhov's Stories and Music: The Unspoken Language.

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