Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many people and institutions have helped me write this book. Financial support was provided by the Cambridge european Trust, the Deutscherakademischer austauschdienst, the studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the university of Göttingen, and in Oxford by the history Faculty, Oriel College, and the Fell Fund. i am grateful to all of them. i also wish to thank the staffs of the libraries and archives where i conducted my research: the university libraries of Cambridge, Göttingen, Münster, and Oxford, the rossiiskaia natsional’naia biblioteka, the rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka, the Biblioteka akademii nauk, the Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia istoricheskaia biblioteka, the sanktpeterburgskaia gosudarstvennaia teatral’naia biblioteka, the Bayerische staatsbibliothek, the British library, the library of the school of slavonic and east european studies (university College london), the rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv, the Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv rossiiskoi Federatsii, the natsional’nyi arkhiv respubliki Tatarstana, the Muzei tsirkovogo iskusstva , the Tsentral’nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv sankt-Peterburga, the Tsentral’nyi istoricheskii arkhiv Moskvy, the Muzei Bakhrushina, and the institut russkoi literatury. i am most grateful to friends and colleagues without whose help i would never have written this book. hubertus Jahn and susan Morrissey helped me formulate the project at the very beginning, and hubertus saw it through the stages of a doctoral thesis. Natascha Astrina was always happy to help with the difficult features of the russian language, and without her, Tatjana Balzer, and elizaveta liphardt, research trips to Moscow, st. Petersburg, and Kazan would not have worked out so well. aleksandr and Ol’ga astriny always had an open door for me in Moscow, zoia Balandina was my host in st. Petersburg, and together with Kiril Bitner and elizaveta liphardt, zoia tracked down texts about hypnosis , while Guzel’ ibneeva, lialia Khasanshina, and elena Vishlenkova helped me find primary texts in Kazan. Tetyana Bogdan, Nikolai Bogomolov, Sandra Dahlke, Vera Dubina, James von Geldern, Boris Kolonitskii, Polly McMichael , and Karen Petrone have also helped me with sources or suggestions. x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS irina Khmel’nitskaia has done more for me than could ever be expected of a friend, providing me with a place to stay in Moscow, helping with archives, libraries, red tape, and together with Dmitrii Provodin, enabling me to conduct “on-site research.” in Göttingen, Manfred hildermeier was always ready to help, and in Oxford my colleagues at the history Faculty and Oriel College have made me feel most welcome and have supported me in every possible way. numerous friends and colleagues have commented on drafts of chapters or the whole manuscript at various stages of its development, and i would like to thank Clare ashdowne, Dominik Collet, Bruno Currie, simon Dixon, Murray Frame, ian Forrest, Michael hagemeister, Jana howlett, hubertus Jahn, emese lafferton, Carlos Martins, David Moon, alex Oberländer, Will Pooley, Bernice rosenthal, steve smith, nick stargardt, and Christine Worobec for their invaluable suggestions. at northern illinois university Press, amy Farranto and susan Bean have been extremely helpful editors in every possible way, and i am also grateful to Marlyn Miller for her thorough copy editing. Tilman Bauer has supported me in every possible way throughout the many years i have been working on the occult in russia; for his love and companionship i am more than thankful. This book is dedicated to him. MODERN OCCULTISM in LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA This page intentionally left blank ...