Lazar Fleishman is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University.

Stefan Michael Newerkla is Professor in the field of West Slavic Linguistics at the Department of Slavonic Studies of Vienna University.

Michael Wachtel is Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

The book discusses Russia's contacts with the West from the eighteenth century to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles offer new perspectives on the study of Russian literature in a comparative context.

German-Slavic cultural relationships - Russian literature - 20 century modernism - History of Russian post-revolutionary emigration - Verse translations of Russian poetry

This volume is dedicated to Fedor B. Poljakov, Professor of the University of Vienna, a distinguished specialist in the history of Russian culture and Germano-Slavic cultural relations. It brings together scholars from leading universities in the United States, Europe and the Russian Federation. Thirty-seven essays discuss a broad array of themes ranging from early-modern Muscovy and Slavia Orthodoxa to Russia's contacts with the West from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles present unknown archival documents and offer new perspectives on the study of Russian literature in a comparative context.