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Taboo Pushkin Pu bl ic at i o n s o f t h e Wi sc on s in Cen t er fo r Pus h k i n S t u d i e s Ser ies Edi t ors David M. Bethea Alexander Dolinin Taboo Pushkin Topics, Texts, Interpretations Edited by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie Th e U n i v e r s i t y o f Wi sc o n s i n P r e s s Publication of this book was made possible through support from the Department of Slavic Studies and Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Institute for Scholar ship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, at the University of Notre Dame. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711–2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2012 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critic al articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Taboo Pushkin : topics, texts, interpretations / edited by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie. p. cm.—(Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-28704-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-28703-0 (e-book) 1. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837— Appreciation—Russia. 3. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837. I. Dinega, Alyssa W. II. Series: Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. PG3355.5.T33 2012 891.71´3—dc23 2011042002 I gratefully dedicate this book to my teachers, mentors, and colleagues far and wide, whose example inspires, challenges, and sustains me. !"#$%&' ()*+,-,&$".. /012,3,4 516+".&+,# [Pushkin scholars are to be feared.] Vladim ir Maiakovsky Contents Foreword: The Power of the Word and the Turn to Taboo xi C a ry l E me r s o n Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Beyond Pushkin as Dogma xvii xix 3 A ly s sa D in e g a G il l e s p ie Part 1: Taboos in Context Pushkin the Titular Councilor 41 I ri na R e y fm a n Why Pushkin Did Not Become a Decembrist 60 I go r N e m i r ov s k y Lighting the Green Lamp: Unpublished and Unknown Poems 84 Joe Pesc h io Pushkin and Metropolitan Philaret: Rethinking the Problem O l e g P ro s k u r in vii 112 viii Contents Part 2: Taboo Writings If Only Pushkin Had Not Written This Filth: The Shade of Barkov and Philol ogical Cover-ups 159 I go r P i l s h c h ik ov Bawdy and Soul: Pushkin’s Poetics of Obscenity 185 A ly s sa D i n e g a G il l e s p ie Resexing Literature: Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters J . D o u gl a s C l ay t o n and 224 Nat a l ia Ve s s el ova The Poetics of Dry Transgression in