Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Dimensions of the Pushkin Monument 3
6. Chapter One. Pushkin’s Poem: Monument and Allusion (1811–1836) 39
7. Chapter Two. Opekushin’s Pushkin Monument: Statue and Performance (1836–1880) 75
8. Chapter Three. Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita: Crisis of the Future Poet (1880–1937) 111
9. Chapter Four. Toporov’s Petersburg Text: Rejecting the Statue (1937–2003) 141
10. Chapter Five. Tolstaia’s Slynx: Disfiguring the Monument (1986–2000) 167
11. Conclusion: Allusion and the Naive Reader 197
12. Appendix 203
13. Notes 211
14. Bibliography 255
15. Index 267