man; Khomiakov “V al’bom sestre” (For my sister’s album, 1826 ); Kol’tsov,
“Malen’komu bratu” (To my younger brother, 1829 ) and “Sestre” (To my sister,
1829 ).
65 .See my “Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: Critical Reception vs. Self-
Definition,” 95–109.
66 .Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, eds., New French Feminisms
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980 ), 16.
67 .Alice Rossi, ed., The Feminist Papers(New York: Bantam, 1981 ), 7–15.
68 .For the influence of Rousseau and Emilein Russia, see Andrew Wachtel,
The Battle for Childhood: The Creation of a Russian Myth(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
University Press, 1990 ), 38 , 71.
69 .See Edward Brown’s accounts of how Mikhail Bakunin, Vissarion Belin-
skii, and Nikolai Stankevich treated Bakunin’s sisters, Varvara and Liuba
(Stankevich and His Moscow Circle, 1830–1840[Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univer-
sity Press, 1966 ], 66 , 69 , 77 , 79 , 80 , 118 ).
70 .“Lyric,” in New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,ed. A. Pre-
minger and T. V. F. Brogan, 721.
Chapter 4. Evdokiia Rostopchina
1 .I base my analysis on the following biographical sketches.
Nineteenth century: Berg, “Grafinia Rostopchina v Moskve,” 691–708
(reprinted in E. P. Rostopchina, Schastlivaia zhenshchina [Moskva: Izd.-vo Pravda,
1991 ], 391–400); Bykov, “Russkie zhenshchiny-pisatel’nitsy,” 238–43; E. S.
Nekrasova, “Grafinia E. P. Rostopchina,” Vestnik Evropy 3 (March–April 1885 ):
42–81; Dmitrii Mikhailovich Pogodin, “Grafinia E. P. Rostopchina i ee vechera,”
401–3; Grafinia L[idiia] A. Rostopchina, “Pravda o moei babushke,” Istoricheskii
vestnik,no. 95 ( 1904 ): 50–66, 427–40, 864–81; no. 96 ( 1904 ): 47–68; and “Semeinaia
khronika (fragmenty),” 404–11; D[mitrii] Sushkov, “K biografii grafini E. P. Ros-
topchinoi,” Istoricheskii vestnik 5 ( 1881 ): 300–305(reprinted from an unsigned
archival copy in E. P. Rostopchina, Schastlivaia zhenshchina,412–14); S. Sushkov,
“Biograficheskii ocherk,” 1 : iii–xlviii; M. Tsebrikova, “Russkie zhenshchiny
pisatel’nitsy,” Nedelia(May 30 , 1876 ): 13–17, 430–43.
Twentieth century: Afanas’ev, “‘Da, zhenskaia dusha,’” 3–18; N. V. Bannikov,
“Ot sostavitelia,” in his Russkie poetessy XIX veka,5–12, 43–45; Ernst, “Karolina
Pavlova i gr. Evdokiia Rastopchina [sic],” 5–35; Fainshtein, Pisatel’nitsy pushkin-
skoi pory,83–104; Irina Filipenko, “Moskovskie literaturnye salony,” Moskovskii
zhurnal 7 ( 1991 ): 50–52; Helena Goscilo, “Evdokiia Rostopchina,” in Russian and
Polish Women’s Fiction,ed. H. Goscilo, 45 ; and “Evdokiia Petrovna Rostopchina,”
in Dictionary of Russian Women Writers,ed. M. Ledkovsky, C. Rosenthal, and M.
Zirin, 540–44; Khodasevich, “Grafinia E. P. Rostopchina: Ee zhizn’ i lirika,” 35–
53 ; Kiselev, “Poetessa i tsar’,” 144–56; Kiselev-Sergenin, “Taina grafini E. P. Ros-
topchinoi,”Neva 9 ( 1994 ): 267–84; and “Po staromu sledu (o ballade E. Ros-
topchinoi ‘Nasil’nyi brak’),” 137–52; Pedrotti, “Scandal of Countess Rostopcˇina’s
Polish-Russian Allegory,” 2 , 196–214; Ranchin, editor’s introduction to Schastli-
vaia zhenshchina,5–14; Romanov, editor’s introduction [“Liricheskii dnevnik
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