A window on Russia: for the use of foreign readers

Trama

Notes from the forties.--Russian language.--Pushkin.--Tyutchev--Gogol: the demon in the overgrown garden.--Seeing Chekhov plain.--Turgenev and the life-giving drop.--Sukhovo-Kobylin: "Who killed the French woman?"--Notes on Tolstoy.--Notes on Pushkin.--A little museum of Russian language.--The strange case of Pushkin and Nabokov.--Svetlana and her sisters.--Solzhenitsyn.

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