Works on Russian and Slavic Philology. Literary Criticism, VIII. Jaan Kross and Russian Culture

Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent Estonian writer Jaan Kross (1920?2007) with Russian literature and culture. It includes contributions on the poetics of some of Kross' works ("The Czar's Madman", "Professor Martens' Departure", "Michelson's Matriculation", "The Third Range of Hills", "A Hard Night for Dr. Karell") and his translations from Russian (e.g. D. Samoilov's poetry and A. Griboedov's "The Misfortune of Being Clever"). Contributors include Lea Pild, Ljubov Kisseljova, Timur Guzairov, Tatiana Stepanischeva, Dmitry Ivanov, and Maria Tamm. An appendix includes the original Russian text of the autobiography of Johann Köler, the patriarch of Estonian national art and protagonist of one of Kross' novels. So far, this text has appeared only in fragments; the full version was found in the Archive of the Institute of Russian literature in St. Petersburg and is here published, with an extensive commentary, for the first time. Acta Slavica Estonica, 2 01_Contents - alr reviewed_23.12.pdf 8 02_Introduction_from_the_Editor - alr reviewed_21.12.pdf 10 03_Pild_Poetic_of_the_leitmotifs - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 16 04_Kisseljova_Russian_history_and_Culture - alr reviewed_23.12.pdf 35 05_Guzairov_Works of Russian Literature - alr reviewed_21.12.pdf 46 06_Kisseljova_The Protagonists of Jaan Kross - alr reviewed_03.01.pdf 55 07_Pild_The Tolstoyan Layer and Estonian Theme - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 72 08_Guzairov_The Portrayals of Witte - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 83 09_Stepanishcheva_The_two_Storylines - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 97 10_Stepanischeva_David Samoilovs Poem The Museum in Translation - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 112 11_Stepanischeva_And_Russia_seemed_to_him_David - alr reviewed_21.12.pdf 125 12_Pild_David Samoilovs Poem Richter - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 139 13_ Ivanov_Tamm_Russian Classics in Soviet Estonia - alr reviewed_07.01.pdf 147 14_Kisseljova_The Autobiographical Story of Artist - alr reviewed_22.12.pdf 175 15_Kisseljova_Biografia professora Kelera_07.01.pdf 181 16_Name_index_07.01.pdf 229 17_Summaries in Estonian_23.12.pdf 248 18_About the Contributors_23.12.pdf 257 This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent Estonian writer Jaan Kross (19202007) with Russian literature and culture. It includes contributions on the poetics of some of Kross' novels ("The Czar's Madman", "Professor Martens' Departure", "Michelson's Matriculation", "The Third Range of Hills", "A Hard Night for Dr. Karell") and his translations from Russian (e.g. D. Samoilov's poetry and A. Griboedov's "The Misfortune of Being Clever"). Contributors include Lea Pild, Ljubov Kisseljova, Timur Guzairov, Tatiana Stepanischeva, Dmitry Ivanov, and Maria Tamm. An appendix includes the original Russian text of the autobiography of Johann Kler, the patriarch of Estonian national art and protagonist of one of Kross' novels. So far, this text has appeared only in fragments; the full version was found in the Archive of the Institute of Russian literature in St. Petersburg and is here published, with an extensive commentary, for the first time.