Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. PREFACE VII
4. Medieval Novgorod: Political, Social, and Cultural Life in an Old Russian Urban Community 1
5. Muscovy's International Relations in the Late Seventeenth Century: Johan van Keller's Observations 44
6. Kliuchevskii's Pupils 68
7. Puäkin and the Femme Fatale: Jealousy in Cygany 99
8. The Historical Framework of Nikolaj Gogol's "Stra§naja Mest'" 127
9. Transcending Politics: Vyacheslav Ivanov's Visions of Sobornost' 147
10. "ΠΟΡΥΝΚ ΚΝΧΕ" ["Lieutenant Kizhe"]: A Discussion 171
11. Mythopoetic Thinking in Aleshkovsky's Smert' v Moskve 195
12. Pan Twardowski: The Polish Variant of the Faust Legend in Slavic Literatures: A Study in Motif History 209
13. South Slavic Muslim Epic Songs: Problems of Collecting, Editing, and Publishing 232
14. A Literary and Spiritual Profile of Ruder J. Boäkovic: On the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of his Death 270
15. The Prosodic Possibilities of Modern Standard Slovene and Slovene Dialects 287
16. Note on Contributors 309