Polish Encounters, Russian Identity

Index

211 Index aggression of Poland, 4–5, 6, 15–16, 173 Akhmatova, Anna, 194, 196, 198, 199 Aksakov, Ivan: and geopolitical boundaries, 135, 136 journal, 113 on Kingdom of Poland, 126–127 philosophical evolution of, 11 Slavophilism of, 94–98 Aleksii II, 20–21 Alexander I: and cultural trends, 78 and Durova, 39 and geopolitical boundaries, 139 and Kingdom of Poland, 7 and liberalization, 10 pro-Polish policy of, 96 and Staszic Palace, 151, 155–156 Alexander II, 83, 121, 126, 127, 132 Alexander III, 110, 121, 148, 154, 156 Anderson, Benedict: on influence of music, 84 on national biographies, 145–146 nationalistic emphasis of, 61 on print and national identity, 51, 53 on Russification, 68 on unisonality, 80–81 Annenkov, Pavel, 73 ‘‘The Anniversary of Borodino’’ (Pushkin), 50, 56, 59, 60–61, 67 Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir, 181, 182–183 Apolek (literary character), 163, 166, 167, 169, 171 Apukhtin, Aleksandr L., 147–148, 152, 154, 156 Arakcheev, Aleksei, 86 Archaeographic Commission, 76 architecture, 14, 144–157 aristocracy. See gentry and aristocracy assimilation, 3–4 Auden, W. H., 198, 199 Augustus gubernia, 129 autocracy, 76, 146 Avejde, O., 128 Avins, Carol, 161 Babel, Isaac, 15, 160–170 Balakirev, Milii Alekseevich, 74, 82 Bal’mont, Konstantin, 15 Baran’czak, Stanisl’aw, 195, 199–200 Baratynskii, Evgenii, 7 Bathory, Stephan, 23 Beck, Jozef, 180, 182–183 ‘‘Before the Sacred Tomb’’ (Pushkin), 50, 57– 58 Belarus/Belorussia: assimilation, 3 and bids for independence, 125 and Catholicism, 21–31, 97 geopolitical boundaries, 131, 137, 139, 140, 167, 173, 175 Polish influence in, 91, 99, 129 and Russification, 133 and Soviet Union, 184 Benckendorf, Aleksandr Khristoforovich, 63, 64, 72 Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, 65 Bessarabia, Territory of, 136 Bestuzhev-Marlinskii, Aleksandr, 7 Bethea, David, 50–51, 52, 53, 54–55 Betskoi, Ivan, 8 Bhabha, Homi, 53 Bial’ystok, 129 Bibikov, Dmitrii, 132 Bludov, Dmitrii, 126, 134–135 Bolshevik Party, 174 borders and borderlands, 1–2, 15, 124. See also geopolitics Boris Godunov (Pushkin), 62 Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich, 74 Brandenberger, David, 174–175, 176 Index 212 Britain, 175, 176 Brodsky, Joseph, 16–17, 189–201 Brodzin’ski, Kazimierz, 77 Broniewski, Wladyslaw, 15 Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 104, 109 Bug River, 127 Bulgarin, F. V., 125 Bunge, Nikolai, 136 Byzantium, 22 Catherine II (Catherine the Great), 6–7, 10, 25, 26–28, 34, 35 Catholicism: campaign against clergy, 93 and cultural reforms, 114 Dostoevsky on, 102–103, 109 and Eastern Orthodoxy, 3, 20–31, 110–117 and ethnicity, 112 Herzen on, 12 and Judaism, 97 and language, 97, 99 and Poland, 80, 92, 94, 95, 97–98, 105 as threat to Russian identity, 3, 146 and uprising of 1863, 100 censorship, 64, 78, 110 Central Committee of the KP(b)U, 172, 174, 177, 183, 184, 185 Chaadaev, Petr, 4, 10, 90, 126 Chernigov gubernia, 131 Chernov, Ivan, 41 Cherven cities, 125 Chicherin, Boris, 115 Chicherin, Georgii, 175, 177 children, 8–9, 14, 146–147, 151, 154, 156 China, 175 Chopin, Frédéric-François, 75, 82, 83, 88 classes. See also gentry and aristocracy; peasantry: class conflict, 16 in Dostoevsky’s writings, 103–104 and ethnicity, 128 and Glinka’s opera, 79 of illegitimate children, 8–9 Communist Party, 172, 173, 177, 181 conservative nationalism, 115 Constantinople, 21, 22, 32, 109 ‘‘Conversation about Criticism’’ (Pushkin), 66 Copernicus, Nicholas, 145, 149 Corazzi, Antonio, 145 Cossacks, 24, 130–131, 134, 161 Counter Reformation, 7 Courland gubernia, 136 Craft-Fairchild, Catherine, 47, 48 cross-dressing, 37–48 Cui, César Antonovich, 74 culture: Brodsky’s interest in, 196 cultural borrowing, 6 cultural mediator role of Poland, 6, 192 fears of Western penetration, 14 Herzen on, 12 interest in Polish culture, 14–15 in Kingdom of Poland, 7 and Lithuania, 96 reforms, 114 and religion, 2–3, 28, 29–30, 116 and Russian identity, 1, 6–7 significance to Poland, 4–5 suppression of Polish culture, 11 Ukrainian cultural identity, 31, 176–177 Western culture, 192, 194 world culture, 190–191, 192 Curson Line, 168 Czacki, Tadeusz, 96 Czartoryski, Adam, 77, 96 Dabrowski, Witold, 195, 199 dance, 10–11, 74, 75, 81, 83, 84 Danilevskii, Nikolai, 3 Decembrist rebellion (1825), 8, 197 De Courten, Manon, 5, 13, 110–117 Delavigne, Jean-François-Casimir, 65 Del’vig, Anton Antonovich, 49 Denikin, Anton, 174 Derzhavin, Felix, 50, 52, 53, 55, 58 Diary of a Writer (Dostoevsky), 101, 103, 104, 106 Dixon, Megan, 9–10, 49–67 Dmowski, Roman, 127 Dnepr river, 131 Dostoevsky, Fyodor...