Table of Contents

Contents: Russian literary activities in Finland, 1808-1956. The devastated world of Russian writers in Finland after the Revolution of 1917. Russian emigre writers and Russian refugees in Finland and their newspapers and Journals.

About the Author

The author: Temira Pachmuss is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Illinois. Among her many academic honors are the Fullbright-Hays Fellowships and the Specialist Fellowship from the Finnish Ministry of Education. She has authored several books on Dostoevsky, Zinaida Hippius, women writers in Russian Modernism, Russian literature in the Baltic between the World Wars, and Russian literature in exile, D.S. Merezhkovsky in Exile (Peter Lang, 1990).

Reviews

In her latest work, 'A Moving River of Tears: Russia's Experience in Finland', Professor Pachmuss introduces the reader to the rich and varied literary achievements of Russian writers who lived in, or were associated with, Finland. Previously, this interesting subject was neglected by scholars. The list of names discussed in the book is testimony to the importance of this branch of the Russian literary tradition: among them are Pushkin, Lermontov, Baratynsky and Leonid Andreev. Professor Pachmuss brings to the subject her usual thorough scholarship and keen understanding of Russian literature. Her book will be of particular interest to the specialist, owing to the considerable amount of archival material included in it. (Richard Tempest, University of Illinois) Temira Pachmuss is the noted author of a number of books on the subject of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian emigre literature. Her latest book, 'A Moving River of Tears: Russia's Experience in Finland', meticulously shows the extent to which Russian emigre talent contributed to Finnish culture, and is revealing in its sensitive analysis of literary works not only of famous Russian authors in Finland, such as Leonid Andreev and Elena Guro, but of all but forgotten Russian writers, such as Countess Rostopchina and Maria Krestovskaya. In this book on Russian literature in Finland, a subject not heretofore sufficiently examined by critics and scholars, the specialist will find an invaluable contribution to the history of Russian literature and culture. (Ruth E. Lorbe, University of Illinois)