Journal: The Slavonic and East European Review
Year: 2015

SEER, 93, 2, APRIL 2015 348 Peschio runs through the ‘secret societies’ of Arzamas and The Green Lamp, before concluding with an excellent account of the almost revolutionary nature of Pushkin’s ‘break-through’ work, Ruslan and Liudmila, which is in turn followed by the aforementioned Epilogue. At times Pushkin is a bit player in all this, at times he moves centre-stage; in both contexts the reader gains many important insights into the tiny but influential groups of young Russian men in the sec