About the Author

Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), called by Vladimir Nabokov (in 1939) ""the greatest Russian poet that the twentieth century has yet produced,"" was also an outstanding memoirist and biographer. Angela Brintlinger is associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture, 1917-1937 and coeditor of Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture.

Reviews

Khodasevich, himself a major poet and brilliant literary historian and critic, created a work that demonstrates in a real sense what it must have felt like to see the boisterous eighteenth-century Russian world through Derzhavin's eyes. - David M. Bethea, University of Wisconsin - Madison, series editor