CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES xi
5. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES xiii
6. CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1
7. CHAPTER TWO: Hagiography and History: The Saintly Prince in the Poetry of the Decembrists 34
8. CHAPTER THREE: Hagiography Revised: Adaptations of Legends and Tales 72
9. CHAPTER FOUR: Neo-Hagiography: The Saintly Monk and the Holy Fool in Modern Dress 121
10. CHAPTER FIVE: Hagiography and the Rigorous Hero: The Josephite Type in Later Russian Literature 190
11. CHAPTER Six: Anti-Hagiography: Tolstoy's Assault on Orthodoxy 218
12. CONCLUSION 246