... and romanticism in Russia, especially for the poets who would become associated with the Decembrist Uprising, a failed attempt by liberal nobles to reform the absolutist state by military coup in 1825. Perhaps even more importantly, Byron also became identified with the primary candidate for the role of Russia’s...

... ) and granit (granite) invites The Bronze Horseman’ s flooded embankments to spill over into its claims about poetry’s impervious borders. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 Aesopian poetics Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin censorship Age of the Decembrists smooth translation...

... the metaphysical import of the nation’s historical destiny.3 Shortly before the verdict in the Decembrist trial was announced, the poet, fi lled with bad premonitions and yet clearly interested in securing for himself an opportunity to continue to work under the new regime, expressed to Pletnëv a desire...

... about the Decembrists, a group of young aristocrats who rose in favor of a constitutional monarchy at the death of Emperor Alexander I in 1825, for which they were later executed or confined to Siberia. In 1856, after Alexander II’s pardon and his own return from Siberian exile, Tolstoy set about...

... is Tiutchev’s half-mocking, half-consolatory address to the participants in the 1825 Decembrist uprising (1826), who naïvely believed that their “scanty blood would suffice to unfreeze the eternal pole.” Instead, “Barely, smoking, it [the blood] shone forth / On the age-old mass of 31 The Russian...

... that intentionally mixed psychological and political meanings, as in Pushkin’s “samovlastitel’nyi zlodei” (“willful/tyrannical villain”) in reference to Napoleon I, or in Fyodor Tiutchev’s address to the leaders of the Decembrist uprising—“Vas razvratilo Samovlastie . . .” (“Autocracy/Willfulness has...