Khodasevich, V. F.

Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), called by Vladimir Nabokov (in 1939) “ the greatest Russian poet that the twentieth century has yet produced, ” was also an outstanding memoirist and biographer.   Angela Brintlinger is associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the Ohio State University. She is the author of "Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937" and coeditor of "Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture,"