Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
Contents
Rainer Maria Rilke : A Russian chronology -- Introduction : The neighbor's soul -- Russia before Russia -- Mapping the "Russian soul" : Lou Andreas-Salome -- Two Russian capitals -- In the heartlands : Spiridon Drozhzhin and Rilke's Russian poems -- The aesthetics of icons and tales : Nikolai Leskov and Victor Vasnetsov -- The predicament of influence : Rilke and Tolstoy -- Fictionalizing Tolstoy -- Russia revisited : Gorky and Pasternak -- Beyond Rilke : Maria Tsvetaeva.