CONTRIBUTORS    

John E. Bowlt is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Russian Art of the Avant Garde and The Silver Age: Russian Art in the Early Twentieth Century and the World of Art Group and translator and editor of Benedikt Livshits, The One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer.

Malcolm Hamrick Brown is Professor of Music at Indiana University. Editor of Musorgsky: In Memoriam, 1881—1981 and author of numerous articles on Russian music, he is preparing a book on the life and work of Sergei Prokofiev.

Donald Fanger is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He is author of The Creation of Nikolai Gogol and Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol.

Alison Hilton is Assistant Professor of Art History at Wayne State University. She has published articles on Russian art and on Russian women artists and is currently preparing a book on Russian folk art.

Janet Kennedy is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University and author of The “Mir Iskusstvo” Group and Russian Art. She is completing a book on the Russian symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel.

Sidney Monas is Professor of History and of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include The Third Section: Police and Society in Russia under Nicholas I, The Selected Works of Nikolai S. Gumilev, and Osip Mandelstam: Selected Essays.

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky is Sidney Heilman Ehrman Professor of European History at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications inlcude Russia and the West in the Teaching of the Slavophiles, Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825-1855, A History of Russia, and A Parting of Ways: Government and the Educated Public in Russia, 1801-1855.

Paul Schaffer, a specialist in Russian antiques, is President of A La Vieille Russie, Inc., New York City, and former President of the National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America. He has lectured at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the New School for Social Research, and the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Philadelphia and New York.

Albert J. Schmidt is Arnold Bernhard Professor of History and Law at the University of Bridgeport. He is completing a book entitled The Image of Classical Moscow: Architecture and Planning 1760-1840.

S. Frederick Starr is President of Oberlin College and former Secretary of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. His publications include Decentralization and Self-Government in Russia, 1830-1870, Melnikov: Solo Architect in a Mass Society, and Red and Hot: Jazz in the USSR.

Theofanis George Stavrou is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. His publications include Russian Interests in Palestine, 1882-1914: A Study of Religious and Educational Enterprise; Russia under the Last Tsar; and Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime.

Joshua Taylor was Director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, at the time of his death in 1981. Among his publications are Learning to Look; A Handbook for the Visual Arts; To See Is To Think; Looking at American Art; America as Art; and The Fine Arts in America.

Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier is Assistant Curator of the Archives of Russian and East European History and Culture at Columbia University and an associate of the Russian Institute, Columbia University. She is author of Russian Realist Art, the State, and Society: The Peredvizhniki and Their Tradition.