CHAPTER XI. The Exile of Mikhailovskoe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE ix
3. CONTENTS xi
4. ILLUSTRATIONS xiii
5. TRANSLITERATION xv
6. Introduction 1
7. CHAPTER I. “Russian Scribblers Call Me an Aristocrat” 7
8. CHAPTER II. Childhood 17
9. CHAPTER III. An Emperor Establishes a Lyceum 34
10. CHAPTER IV. Literature and Love in the Lyceum 49
11. CHAPTER V. In the Great World 68
12. CHAPTER VI. Among the Conspirators 89
13. CHAPTER VII. A Russian Childe Harold 102
14. CHAPTER VIII. “Accursed Qty of Kishinev” 118
15. CHAPTER IX. A Russian Ovid Among the Goths 137
16. CHAPTER Χ. Odessa 156
17. CHAPTER XI. The Exile of Mikhailovskoe 188
18. CHAPTER XII. “I Choke Him with a Tragedy” 216
19. CHAPTER XIII. The Tsar Commands 236
20. CHAPTER XIV. Moscow Again 249
21. CHAPTER XV. “Pompous City, Wretched City” 276
22. CHAPTER XVI. Marriage 301
23. CHAPTER XVII. Honeymoon and Wormwood 335
24. CHAPTER XVIII. A Prisoner of the Tsar’s Court 361
25. CHAPTER XIX. Coadjutor of the Order of Cuckolds 384
26. CHAPTER XX. The Last Duel 410
27. Epilogue 429
28. NOTES 441
29. BIBLIOGRAPHY 459
30. INDEX 471