Iazykov: K. K. Bakhmeier, introduction to Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii,by
N. M. Iazykov, 28 , 42.
Fet: Tatyana Whittaker, “Fet [Shenshin], Afanasii Afanas’evich,” in Weber,
Modern Encyclopedia of Russia and Soviet Literature, 7 : 194 , 196 ; Valerii Briusov,
“Predislovie,” in Polnoe sobranie sochinenii F. I. Tiutcheva, 18.
Kol’tsov: L. Plotkin, “A. V. Kol’tsov,” in Kol’tsov, Stikhotvoreniia, 13 , 17.
Maikov: “Apollon Nikolaevich Maikov,” in Nikolaev, Russkie pisateli 1800–
1917 , 3 : 454. B. F. Egorov, introduction to Stikhotvoreniia i dramy,by A.S. Khomi-
akov, 10.
35 .Viazemskii: “Rostopchina,” in Ledkovsky, Rosenthal, and Zirin, Dictio-
nary of Russian Women Writers,540–41; “Gotovtseva,” in Nikolaev, Russkie pisateli
1800–1917, 1 : 659.
On Zhukovskii and Mil’keev, see chapter 7. Zhukovskii, who first met
Kol’tsov in Saint Petersburg in 1836 , visited Voronezh in 1837. At that time he
met twice with Kol’tsov and also urged the local gimnaziia teachers to help
Kol’tsov to improve his education. See L. Plotkin, “A. V. Kol’tsov,” in Kol’tsov,
Stikhotvoreniia, 12 ; A. I. Liashchenko, “A.V. Kol’tsov (biograficheskii ocherk),” in
Kol’sov, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii A. V. Kol’tsova,xxvii–xxviii.
For Belinskii’s attitudes toward women, see V. I. Kondorskaia, “V. G. Belin-
skii o Zhorzh Sand,” inUchenye zapiski, Russkii iazyk i literatura,ed. G. G.
Mel’nichenko (Iaroslavl’, 1958 ), no. 28 ( 38 ), 137–66, and Vishnevskaia, “Tema
sotsial’nogo bespraviia zhenshchiny v literaturnom nasledii Belinskogo,” 116 :
5 , 292–96; Belinskii, “Sochineniia Zeneidy R-voi,” in Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 7 :
654 (first published in Otechestvennye zapiski 31 , no. 11 ( 1843 ): 1–24). Belinskii on
Zhadovskaia: “Vzgliad na russkuiu literaturu 1846 goda,” Polnoe sobranie sochi-
nenii, 10 : 35 (first published in Sovremennik 1 , no. 1 , section 3 ( 1847 ): 1–56.
36 .Teplova, for example, was forced to work through M. A. Maksimovich
in order to get a book of poetry published; her frustration and impatience may
be seen her in her letters to him (Vatsuro, “Zhizn’ i poeziia Nadezhdy
Teplovoi”). Similarly, Vladimir Zotov “placed” Khvoshchinskaia’s poetry in Lit-
eraturnaia gazeta,without paying her for it (Semevskii, “N. D. Khvoshchinskaia
Zaionchkovskaia,” 10 : 54 ).
37 .For examples of the kind of laudatory poems written to women at this
time, see Gitta Hammarberg, “Flirting with Words: Domestic Albums, 1770–
1840 ,” i nRussia, Women, Culture,ed. Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 ).
38 .Khodasevich writes that Count Vladimir Sollogub allowed no women at
his literary evenings but that an exception was made for Rostopchina (“Grafinia
E. P. Rostopchina,” 43 ). Compare men’s opportunities for professional advance-
ment in salons (note 2 ) with K. D. Kavelin’s memoir of A. P. Elagina’s salon, in
which he stresses approvingly that the hostesses did not write (in Literaturnye
salony i kruzhki: Pervaia polovina XIX v., ed. N. L. Brodskii [Moskva: Akademiia,
1930 ], 329 ).
39 .The six salon hostesses mentioned (in Brodskii, Literaturynye salony i
kruzhki) are Volkonskaia, Karamzina, Elagina, Pavlova, Rostopchina, and Fuks.
Pavlova was able to read her work at salons hosted by Elagina and Volkonskaia.
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