- On Mordovtseva, see G. P. Murenina, “Vy zhili nedarom,” in Saratovskie
druz’ia Chernyshevskogo,ed. I. V. Porokh (Saratov: Privolzhskoe knizhnoe iz-
datel’stvo, 1985 ), 59 ; Mordovtseva’s autobiographical poema, Staraia skazka, in
Otzvuki zhizni,17–19, 27 ; and P. Iudin’s less than sympathetic “Mordovtsevy v
Saratove,” Istoricheskii vestnik(March 1907 ): 931–32. On Khvoshchinskaia, see
Polovtsov et al., Russkii biograficheskii slovar’, 21 : 302. - On Rostopchina’s poetry, see “Evdokiia Rostopchina,” in Russian and Pol-
ish Women’s Fiction,ed. H. Goscilo, 45. As will be discussed in chapter 4 , how-
ever, Rostopchina could only begin to publish after her marriage.
On Pavlova, see Barbara Heldt, “Karolina Pavlova: The Woman Poet and the
Double Life,” in A Double Life,by Karolina Pavlova, trans. Barbara Heldt (Oak-
land: Barbary Coast Books, 1986 ), xi. Also see Pavlova’s poem “Pishu ne smelo
ia, ne chasto,” printed in V. K. Zontikov, “‘Pishu ne smelo ia, ne chasto.. .’
(Stikhotvorenie Karoliny Pavlovoi),” in Vstrechi s proshlym,ed. N. B. Bolkova,
no. 4 (Moskva: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1982 ), 35–39. Pavlova’s seemingly self-
deprecating letter of 1854 to I. I. Panaev, which Heldt discusses (“Karolina
Pavlova,” x), on close reading reveals considerable irony. See Pavlova’s gleeful
description of it in her letter (Oct. 13 , 1854 ) to Boris Utin. Munir Sendich, “Boris
Utin in Pavlova’s Poems and Correspondence: Pavlova’s Unpublished Letters ( 17 )
to Utin,” Russian Language Journal 28 , no. 100 (spring 1974 ), 80.
For Teplova, see Vatsuro, “Zhizn’ i poeziia Nadezhdy Teplovoi,” 30 , 31 , 33.
On Zhadovskaia, see Fedorova, “Vospominaniia ob Iu. V. Zhadovskoi,” 402 ,
and Blagovo, Poeziia i lichnost’ Iu. V. Zhadovskoi, 27 , 31 , 72. For possible reasons
that Zhadovskaia stopped writing, see Blagovo, 62 , 63 , 64 , 70 , 73.
For a discussion of Bakunina, the third unmarried poet, who fell silent in the
late 1850 s, see my “Praskov’ia Bakunina and the Poetess’s Dilemma,” 43–57. - Additional examples of such advantageous marriages are those of N. M.
Karamzin (1766–1826), whose first wife, E. I. Protasova (1767–1802), was the sis-
ter-in-law of the Freemason A. A. Pleshcheev and sister of the salon hostess A. I.
Pleshcheeva (Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature, 215 ). Karamzin’s second
wife, Ekaterina Andreevna Viazemskaia, A. F. Tiutcheva writes, was the half sis-
ter of the prominent poet and critic Petr Viazemskii (Pri dvore dvukh imperatoro,
69–70). [“On [Karamzin] byl sviazan tesnoi druzhboi s Zhukovskim, kotoromu
vposledstvii bylo porucheno vospitanie naslednika, i s Viazemskim, na vne-
brachnoi sestre kotorogo on byl zhenat” (He was connected in close friendship
with Zhukovskii, who subsequently was entrusted with the education of the
heir to the throne, and with Viazemskii, to whose out-of-wedlock sister he was
married)] (quoted in Aronson and Reiser, Literaturnye kruzhki i salony, 162 ).
See also I. B. Chizhova, Khoziaiki literaturnykh salonov Peterburga pervoi poloviny
XIX v. (Sankt-Peterburg: Izd. Serdtse, 1993 ), 79.
On Tiutchev, see Valerii Briusov, “F. I. Tiutchev: Kritiko-biograficheskii
ocherk,” in Polnoe sobranie sochinenii F. I. Tiutcheva (Sankt-Peterburg: A. F. Marks,
1913 ), 10–11, 14.
On Fet, see Harry Weber, ed.,Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Liter-
ature(Gulf Breeze, Fla: Academic International Press, 1977–89), 7 : 195 , and P. V.
Bykov, “Predislovie,” in Tiutchev, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 3.
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