Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-406) and index
Transformative myths and acts of possession -- Pushkin is dead : the elegies of Mikhail Lermontov, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Evdokia Rostopchina -- The making of museum culture : the poet's spirit and the work of remembrance -- Solid gold Pushkin : anniversary commemorations and the time lines of a story -- Document, fidelity, and the cinematic image -- Anna Akhmatova's Pushkin : allegories, ethics, grieving for the dead -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Pushkin and the poet's identities -- Andrei Bitov and the mystifications of self and story -- Ending/beginning with Andrei Sinyavsky/Abram Tertz
