Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Double narratives, or, Dukelsky's The end of St. Petersburg
  • Soviet "méchanique," or, The Bolshevik temptation
  • Neoclassicism à la russe 1, or, Reclaiming the Eighteenth Century in Nabokov's Ode
  • Neoclassicism à la russe 2, or, Stravinsky's version of Similia similibus curentur
  • 1937, or, Pushkin divided
  • Feast in time of plague
  • Epilogue, or, Firebird to Phoenix.