GOOD SOURCES FOR EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT RUSSIAN 19TH CENTURY CULTURAL HISTORY:

Billington, James.  The Icon and the Axe. (General history of Russian culture—excellent, dense)

Greenleaf, Monica.  Pushkin and Romantic Fashion. (Connects Pushkin to European Romantic tradition)

Frank, Joseph.  Dostoevsky (multi-volume biography; excellent and very readable).

Nabokov, Vladimir.  Nikolai Gogol. (Quirky, funny, insightful.  Check out the index).

Nabokov, Vladimir.  Commentary to his translation of Eugene Onegin. (Encyclopedic treatment of

Pushkin’s European and Russian milieux).

Paperno, Irina.  Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism. (Study of the literary roots of socialism in Russia)

Terras, Victor.  Handbook of Russian Literature (General reference).

Richard F. Gustafson. Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger.

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