A window on Russia : for the use of foreign readers

contents......Page 4 Notes from the Forties - RUSSIAN LANGUAGE......Page 8 PUSHKIN......Page 20 TYUTCHEV......Page 33 GOGOL: THE DEMON IN THE OVERGROWN GARDEN......Page 43 SEEING CHEKHOV PLAIN......Page 57 Turgenev and the life-giving drop......Page 74 SUKHOVO-KOBYLIN......Page 152 NOTES ON TOLSTOY......Page 165 NOTES ON PUSHKIN......Page 189 A LITTLE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE......Page 202 THE STRANGE CASE OF PUSHKIN AND NABOKOV......Page 214 SVETLANA AND HER SISTERS......Page 243 SOLZHENITSYN......Page 275 Notes from the forties.--Russian language.--Pushkin.--Tyutchev--Gogol: the demon in the overgrown garden.--Seeing Chekhov plain.--Turgenev and the life-giving drop.--Sukhovo-Kobylin: "Who killed the French woman?"--Notes on Tolstoy.--Notes on Pushkin.--A little museum of Russian language.--The strange case of Pushkin and Nabokov.--Svetlana and her sisters.--Solzhenitsyn Notes from the forties. Russian language. Pushkin. Tyutchev Gogol: the demon in the overgrown garden. Seeing Chekhov plain. Turgenev and the life-giving drop. Sukhovo-Kobylin: "Who killed the French woman?" Notes on Tolstoy. Notes on Pushkin. A little museum of Russian language. The strange case of Pushkin and Nabokov. Svetlana and her sisters. Solzhenitsyn.