Russia's Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Transliteration and Translations xiii Introduction: Rome Envy 3 1 The Blueprint: Dmitrii Merezhkovskii’s Christ and Antichrist 34 2 Relinquishing Empire? Valerii Briusov’s Roman Novels 76 3 A “Roman Bolshevik”: Aleksandr Blok’s “Catiline” and the Russian Revolution 106 4 The Third Rome in Exile: Refitting the Pieces in Viacheslav Ivanov’s “Roman Sonnets” 129 5 Emperors in Red: The Poet and the Court in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Death of Nero 162 Conclusion: Bulgakov and Beyond 185 Notes 203 Index 281 vii ...