A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature

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Abbeele, van Den Georges, 19, 107, 120, 189n Abrams, M. H., 50, 186n, 187n, 195n Adams, singleton, 136, 207n, 211n, 212n Adams, Percy, 193n Ahasuerus, 16, 74, 200n “Ahasver. The Jew-wanderer” (Zhukovsky, v.), 16 Alexander I (Tsar), 63, 67, 69, 70, 76, 83, 153, 154, 159, 215n Alienation: borders and, 37; Chaadaev and, 20, 62, 80; cultural, 156; with departure and return, 162; european Russian and, 169, 179; national consciousness and, 52; new world order and, 146; nomadic wanderer and, 82; Romanticism and, 49, 50, 51; society and, 15; wandering Jew and, 16; wandering radicals and, 166 “All over Russia” (Gorky), 181 Anthropology: nomad and, 10; travel and, 12 Apology of a Madman (Chaadaev), 60, 68, 69, 147 The Bell (Herzen), 158 Benckendorff, Alexander, 99, 198n, 216n Bhabha, Homi, 170, 194n Blok, Alexander, 137, 174, 175, 179, 180, 181, 218n Bonald, Louis de, 7, 50, 55, 56, 57, 185n Borders: alienation and, 37; comparisons of, 25, 26; cultural divide and, 37, 38; cultural divisions of, 30–1; cultural gap and, 43–4, 45; eternal traveler and, 36; fear and return of, 33, 34; foreignness and, 31, 32; identity and experience of, 45; nomadic and, 51; receding Russian, 106–8, 109; siberia, 140; unfixed identity and, 37; vanishing, 38–40, 41 Budgen, David, 66, 196n, 197n, 199n Butor, Michel, 18, 98 Byron, George Gordon, 16, 17, 65, 81, 86, 91, 199n, 200n, 201n, 202n “Cain” (Byron), 16 “Cain” (Coleridge), 16 “Camicia Rossa” (Herzen), 148, 149 Carr, e. H., 144, 152, 170, 213n Catherine II, 62, 69,70, 94, 191n, 209n Chaadaev, Petr Iakovlevich: alienation and, 20, 62, 80; anti-authoritarian actions and, 64; anti-autocracy and, 75–7; Decembrists and, 62; evaluation of Russia and, 50, 52; exile and the west, 66; French language and, 56; “friendly letter” and, 65; friendship and, 76; Herzen’s My Past and Thoughts, 78, 79; house arrest and, 47, 67; insanity and, 67, 68; internal exile and, 65, 66; lack of history and, 160; legend of, 73–4; nomadic genealogy and, 20; nomadic national character and, 72, 73; nomadic perception Index 236 Index and, 5; nomad imagery and, 8; philosopher-seer and, 48; political action and, 18, 72; political defiance and, 63; public denunciation of Russia and, 67; Pushkin’s poetry and, 75–7; Romantic rebel and, 61; Russian self and, 80; self-love and, 73; social detachment and, 62; stylized behavior and, 74 “Childe Harold” (Byron), 16, 81 Childhood (Gorky), 181 Civilization: development stages of, 12–4, 15; failure to progress and, 50; historical progress and, 50; Russian elite and, 44; western european culture and, 49 Coleridge, samuel Taylor, 16, 17 Colonialism, 14 “Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History” (Kant), 13, 51 Conrad, Joseph, 183 Culler, Jonathan, 172, 193n Culture: alienation of, 156; borders and division of, 30–1, 37, 38; english vs. Russian, 122, 123; gap in, 43–4, 45; historical consciousness and, 147; national consciousness and, 130; siberia and, 141 Custine, Marquis de, 7, 185n, 194n Dead Souls (Gogol): homecoming and, 132; nomadic wanderer and, 137; nomadism and, 22, 179; return and, 128; Russian road and, 139; Russian society and, 137 “The Decembrist in Daily Life” (Chaadaev), 157 Decembrists: Byronic behavioral code and, 61; Chaadaev and, 62, 63; imperial expansion and, 94; political development and, 84; selfhood and, 17; self-sacrifice and, 63; siberia and, 130 Deleuze, Gilles, 14, 147, 182, 218n Departure: defined, 28, 29; geopolitical realm and, 31; home and, 120; homelessness and, 115; internal confusion and, 39; movement and, 115; Pushkin and, 102, 108, 109; Russian europe and, 44 Derzhavin, G. R., 94, 132, 133, 134 Dickinson, sara, 22, 185n, 201n, 208n “Digression” (Mickiewicz), 59 Don Carlos (schiller), 63, 70, 160 Dostoevsky, Feodor M.: eternal Russian traveler and, 23–46; eternal traveler and, 10; home and, 19, 20; nomadic wanderers and, 5; political action and, 18; Pushkin Jubilee and, 3; Russian wanderer and, 9; travel texts and, 8 enlightenment: civilization concept and, 7, 12; “eastern” Russians and, 50; foreign education and, 156; nature of history and, 13, 14; theories of progress and, 15 “The eternal Jew” (Gubier), 16 “The eternal Jew” (Kiukhelbeker), 16 “The eternal Jew” (Zhukovsky), 16 eternal traveler: borders and, 36; Dostoevsky and, 10; Frigate Pallas and, 113, 114, 178, 179; Goncharov and, 10; home and, 19, 121, 141; Pushkin and, 21; siberia and, 127 etkind, Aleksandr, 170, 209n Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), 5, 49, 62, 100, 118, 203n, 206n, 211n “Family Drama” (Herzen), 150, 151, 167 Faust (Goethe), 16 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 52 First Philosophical...