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Acknowledgments This project originated out of a conversation with Susan Harris, formerly at Northwestern University Press, at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 1997, and we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Susan for her encouragement and support throughout. It then developed further as the result of a series of Modern Language Association panels on Alexander Pushkin and his African heritage in 1999. As with any ongoing and long-gestating project, there are a number of people who were instrumental in helping bring it to completion. The editors would first of all like to thank our readers Marcus Levitt and Josephine Wohl for their valuable feedback during the review process. We also thank Irina Reyfman for her many suggestions and thorough reading of the manuscript; and Alla Rachkov, Kevin Laney, Ronald Meyer, and Larisa Kirichenko for their valiant efforts on our behalf and their unflagging support in all aspects, large and small. Jared Ingersoll and Clint Walker were especially helpful to us in our numerous bibliographic queries. Deborah Martinsen, Kathleen Parthé, Donia Allen, Robert Coles, and Allison Blakely provided us with useful suggestions and source materials; Souleymane Ndiaye gave us firsthand information on the experiences of African exchange students in Moscow; and Kara Lynch graciously shared the prerelease version of her documentary Black Russians with us. Finally, we are grateful for the research assistance of Douglas Greenfield, Eric Roston, Cate Huetter, and Tench Coxe. The editors express appreciation to the University Seminars at Columbia University for their help in publication. Material in this work was presented to the University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture. We would also like to thank Barnard College and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University for their generous support. J. Thomas Shaw’s article “Pushkin on His African Heritage: Publications during His Lifetime” has been reprinted from the volume Pushkin Today, edited by David M. Bethea (1993), with the permission of Indiana University Press. Associated University Presses has granted us permission to publish a shorter version of a chapter from Catherine O’Neil’s book With Shakespeare’s xv Eyes: Pushkin’s Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare (University of Delaware Press, 2003). N. K. Teletova’s article has been reprinted with permission of the author. The excerpt from Abram Tertz’s Strolls with Pushkin (1993) has been republished here with the permission of Yale University Press. Acknowledgments xvi ...

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