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).