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329 Index abstinence. See celibacy Against Nature (Huysmans), 12–13, 67–69, 107, 114, 121, 144, 244 Aksakov, A. N., 290n19 Aleksei, Grand Duke, 274 anatomical Venus, 139–40, 310n27 anatomizing trope. See dissection and vivisection androgyny, 9, 19–20, 70, 71–77, 282n11, 291n32, 309n67; ambiguous status of, 73; and castration, 81; Gippius and, 172–79, 205–11; as originary human state, 61, 73, 251, 291nn37, 42; and part/whole relationship, 19, 246–47. See also homosexuality Anfimov, Iakov, 273 anti-Semitism, 14–15, 114, 185, 259, 276, 298nn65, 68, 324n58, 325n66; and degeneration, 263–64. See also Beilis case; Rozanov, Vasilii: antiSemitism of Antonii, Metropolitan (Vadkovsky), 212, 216, 326n74 Antonin, Archimandrite (Granovsky ), 215, 228 Aphrodite, 60, 127, 235, 320n12 apocalypse, 3, 9–10, 308n62, 317n42; and Blok, 92–97, 102–3, 122–24, 130, 141, 154–60; and Bolshevik revolution, 26; and Gippius, 192; relationship of celibacy and procreation to, 222, 228–29; and Rozanov, 247, 250, 271; and Solov’ev, 74–75; and Tolstoy, 50, 56 Armand, Inessa, 201 asceticism, 49; and erotic celibacy, 7– 8; Rozanov and, 243; Solov’ev and, 59, 77; Tolstoy and, 29, 49 atavism. See under degeneration Bakhtin, Mikhail, 248, 321n26 Bakst, Leon, 172, 173, 174, 195, 212, 218, 314n2, 315n20 Bakunin, Mikhail, 97–98, 119–21 Bal’mont, Konstantin, 15, 171, 306n15 Baturina, L. A., 109 Baudelaire, Charles, 16, 30, 139, 233; Flowers of Evil, 11 Beardsley, Aubrey, 149, 150, 177, 178 Beilis case, 14, 114–15, 259, 264–65, 298n67 Beketova, Maria A., 98, 106, 295n8 Bekhterev, Vladimir, 273, 326n75 Belinsky, Vissarion, 120–21, 164 Bely, Andrei, 89–91, 100, 201–2; and Dante, 130; description of Gippius , 177–78; description of Ivanov, 316n31; description of Rozanov, 236–37, 318n2; description of Solov’ev, 70; on Premukhino as model for Shakhmatovo , 119–23; relationship with Bely, Andrei (cont.) Liubov’ Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, 97–101, 123, 296n22 Bely, Andrei, works of: Arabesques, 283n20, 301n26; Beginning of the Century, 308n62; Between Two Revolutions , 97, 295n9; “Despair,” 304n60; Gold in Azure, 13; “Green Meadow,” 98; Petersburg, 119, 318n2; Reminiscences about Blok, 91–95, 119–23, 294n7; Sacred Colors , 96 Benois, Alexander, 195, 212–13, 217, 305n14, 310n73, 315n20 Berberova, Nina, 210 Berdiaev, Nikolai, 201–2, 215, 237, 281n2, 305n8, 309n68, 319n8 Bernard, Claude, 286n20 Bernheimer, Charles, 16, 45, 284n47, 285n49 Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo, 232 Bershtein, Evgenii, 284n34, 320n16 Bezobrazova, Maria S., 85 Bible: I Corinthians, 51, 224, 226, 234; Genesis, 73, 226, 391n32; Luke, 66; Matthew, 41, 49, 199, 227; Revelation , 3, 10, 22, 75, 97, 102, 157, 191, 199, 203, 217, 228, 312n113 Binet, Alfred, 12, 18, 83, 85 Blagoi, Dmitrii, 111 Bloch, Iwan, 320n15 Blok, Alexander, 6, 12–13, 77, 89–161, 92, 99, 110, 124, 215; and archeology , 135; and Beilis affair, 114, 266, 298n67; and blood imagery, 142– 46, 150–54, 157–60; and bloodline, 101–2, 109–11; and Cleopatra, 133– 42; cult of, 95–101, 295n13; and Dante, 129–30; Eurasian discourse of, 154–59; family of, 89, 111; and femme fatale, 143–54; and John the Baptist, 144–51; journey to Italy, 128, 129–32, 142–43; memoirs concerning, 91–95, 119–23, 294n7, 295n8; and mosaics in Basilica of San Marco, 144–49; and Nordau, 283n20; notion of history, 154–61; and revolution, 159, 276; and Salome, 142–54, 303n54; sexual anxiety of, 101–3, 107–8; and Solov’ev, 156–57; and vampire trope, 111–14, 298n61; and venereal disease, 106, 108–9, 117, 296n33, 297n42; wedding of, 89– 92, 95 Blok, Alexander, works of: “Amethyst,” 297n59; Ante Lucem, 91; “Antwerp,” 153, 304n56; “Art and Revolution (On the Art of Richard Wagner),” 282n20; “Cleopatra,” 135–41, 152–53; “A cold wind from the lagoon . . . ,” 142–44; “Collapse of Humanism,” 156; The Field of Kulikovo, 157–58; “Finally I Conquered Her!” 113; “The Gaze of the Egyptian Woman,” 132–35, 143; Italian Verses, 130; Katilina, 161, 275, 304n64; Lightning Flashes of Art, 129–32, 157, 300n14; “Neither Dreams nor Waking,” 303n54; “On the Contemporary State of Russian Symbolism,” 141; Poetry about the Beautiful Lady, 91; Retribution, 114–19, 118, 152, 298nn71, 74; Scythians, 157–58; “Silent Phantom in the Tower,” 110; “Song of Hell,” 113, 300n9; “The Stranger,” 133; “Sun Over Russia (On the Eightieth Birthday of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy),” 297n55 Blok, Liubov’ Dmitrievna. See Mendeleeva, Liubov’ Dmitrievna blood: blood libel, 14, 114–15, 259, 264–65, 268; blood rituals, 14, 260– 63, 265, 323n48, 324n60; as decadent trope, 12, 41, 113, 124, 158, 160...

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