This collection of essays is dedicated to John E. Malmstad (Harvard University), a prominent American Slavist, leading specialist in Russian Silver-Age poetry, the novel, visual art, and ballet. Among the contributors to the volume are Konstantin Azadovsky (St. Petersburg), Nikolay Bogomolov (Moscow), Robert Hughes (Berkeley), Aleksandr Lavrov (St. Petersburg), Jean-Claude Marcade (Paris), Fedor Poljakov (Vienna), Olga Raevsky-Hughes (Berkeley), Stephanie Sandler (Cambridge, MA.), Roman Timenchik (Jerusalem), and Michael Wachtel (Princeton)."

This volume dedicated to Ronald Vroon, Professor of The University of California, Los Angeles, a distinguished scholar of Russian literature, covers a wide range of topics reflecting his broad research interests (various periods in the history of Russian literature in its relationships with visual art, political life, and church). It brings together leading international specialists in the field Nikolay Bogomolov (Moscow), Aleksandr Dolinin (Madison/WI), Lazar Fleishman (Stanford), Stefano Garzonio (Pisa), Viach. Vs. Ivanov (Moscow-Los Angeles), Marcus Levitt (Los Angeles), Aleksandr Ospovat...