How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks

ISBN-13: 9780299308346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Irina Reyfman

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration and Translation
• Introduction: Russian Writers and State Service, 1750s-1850s
• 1 To Serve or to Write? Noble Writers in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• 2 Pushkin as Bureaucrat, Courtier, and Writer
• 3 Hierarchy of Ranks according to Gogol
• 4 Poets in the Military: Denis Davydov, Aleksandr Polezhaev, and Mikhail Lermontov
• 5 Service Ranks in Dostoevsky's Life and Fiction
• Conclusion: Beyond Rank
• Appendix: The Table of Ranks
• Notes
• Index