This collection of essays is dedicated to John E. Malmstad (Harvard University) a prominent
American Slavist leading specialist in Russian Silver-Age poetry the novel visual art and
ballet. Among the contributors to the volume are Konstantin Azadovsky (St. Petersburg) Nikolay
Bogomolov (Moscow) Robert Hughes (Berkeley) Aleksandr Lavrov (St. Petersburg) Jean-Claude
Marcadé (Paris) Fedor Poljakov (Vienna) Olga Raevsky-Hughes (Berkeley) Stephanie Sandler
(Cambridge MA.) Roman Timenchik (Jerusalem) and Michael Wachtel (Princeton).
