49 .Zotov, “Peterburg v sorokovykh godakh,” 296. Zotov quotes Khvo-
shchinskaia as having written, “I can only sing, because there is no feeling that
would not awaken feelings in my soul. But to scrutinize, analyze, and describe,
I don’t know if I can, if I will ever be in a condition [sostoianie] to do that.”
50 .On the shift in popularity from poetry to prose in Russia starting in the
1830 s, see Mirsky, History of Russian Literature, 126. See also Khvoshchinskaia’s
translation from the French, “Proshchanie s poeziei,” Literaturnaia gazeta,no. 45
(Nov. 11 , 1848 ): 709–10, and Rostopchina’s poem expressing similar feelings,
“Oda poezii (Anakhronizm)” ( 1852 ), which starts “Tebe razvenchannoi bogine
/ Tebe poklon moi i privet” (To you, dethroned goddess / To you my respects
and my greeting).
51 .“Zametki i razmyshleniia novogo poeta po povodu russkoi zhurnalistiki
avg. 1852 ,” 105–6. Nekrasov is identified as “Novyi poet” in I. F. Masanov, Slo-
var’ psevdonimov russkikh pisatelei, 2 : 274.
52 .“Bibliografiia,” Sovremennik 43 , no. 1 (Jan. 1854 ): 10. Nekrasov is identi-
fied as the author of this anonymous review in Vladimir Emmanuilovich Bograd,
Zhurnal “Sovremnnik,” 1847–1866: Ukazatel’ soderzhaniia(Moskva: Gos. Izd-vo
khudozhestvenoi literatury, 1959 ), 235.
53 .Thomas H. Johnson, Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography(Cam-
bridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955 ), 120.
54 .Johnson, Emily Dickinson, 56 , 112–44, especially 117 –20.
Chapter 6. Karolina Pavlova
l. For recent Pavlova scholarship, see Fusso and Lehrman, Essays on Karolina
Pavlova.Anthologies that omit Pavlova (and, for the most part, all women po-
ets) include Verkhovskii, Poety pushkinskoi pory;Bannikov, Tri veka russkoi poezii;
Petrov, Istoriia russkoi literatury XIX veka;L. Ia. Ginzberg, ed., Poety 1820 – 1830
godov, 2 vols. (Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel’, 1972 ); E. Vinokurov, ed.,Russkaia
poeziia XIX veka(Moskva: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1974 ); Anoshkina and
L. D. Gromova, eds., Istoriia russkoi literatury XIX veka: 40–60gody(Moskva: Iz-
datel’stvo Moskovskogo Universiteta, 1998 ).
2 .Das Nordlicht(Dresden: In der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1833 ); Les Pre-
ludes(Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1839 ); Dvoinaia zhizn’(Moskva:
Tip. Got’e i Monigetti, 1848 ); Razgovor v Kremle(Sankt-Peterburg: V tip. Iakova
Geia, 1854 ); Stikhotvoreniia(Moskva: Tip. Stepanovoi, 1863 ).
Since her death, the following works have appeared: Sobranie sochinenii,ed.
Valerii Briusov; Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii,ed. N. Kovarskii; Polnoe sobranie
stikhotvorenii,ed. Pavel Gromov; Stikhotvoreniia,ed. E. N. Lebedev (Moskva:
Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1985 ).
3. It is not necessary here to give a complete biographical account of
Pavlova’s life, as several are now available. See B. Rapgof, Karolina Pavlova: Ma-
terialy dlia izucheniia zhizni i tvorchestva(Petrograd: Izdatel’stvo Trirema, 1916 );
Sendich, “Life and Works of Karolina Pavlova”; Pavel Gromov, “Karolina
Pavlova,” in Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii,by Karolina Pavlova, 5 –72; and my
“Karolina Pavlova,” in Russian Women Writers,ed. Christine Tomei, 1 : 313–21.
Pavlova as a curiosity: Konstantin Khranevich, “Mitskevich i Karolina Ian-
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