Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Russians and the French -- 1. From Poetry to Prose: Pushkin, Gogol, and the Revue étrangère -- The Revue étrangère -- The Bronze Horseman -- "The Overcoat" -- Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy -- 2. Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time -- Lermontov and the French -- Pushkin -- Synthesis: Foreign and Native -- 3. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment -- France -- A Modern Gospel -- Synthesis: Novel and Gospel -- 4. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina -- The French and Adultery -- The Gospels -- Conclusion -- From Romanticism to Realism -- The Everyday -- The Hierarchy of Subtexts -- Appendix: "The Flood at Nantes" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.