CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Vologda to St. Petersburg

2. War and Peace

3. The City and the Country

4. Back to War

5. The Return of Odysseus

6. Arzamas and the Essays

7. To Italy

8. Into the Dark

Notes

Translator’s Note

Index of Texts by Batyushkov Cited or Discussed