Intro -- Half-title page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- 1. By Way of Introduction: British Reception, Perception and Recognition of Russian Culture Anthony Cross -- 2. Byron, Don Juan, and Russia Peter Cochran -- 3. William Henry Leeds and Early British Responses to Russian Literature Anthony Cross -- 4. Russian Icons through British Eyes, c. 1830-1930 Richard Marks -- 5. The Crystal Palace Exhibition and Britain's Encounter with Russia Scott Ruby -- 6. An 'Extraordinary Engagement': A Russian Opera Company in Victorian Britain Tamsin Alexander -- 7. Russian Folk Tales for English Readers: Two Personalities and Two Strategies in British Translations of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Tatiana Bogrdanova -- 8. 'Wilful Melancholy' or 'a Vigorous and Manly Optimism'?: Rosa Newmarch and the Struggle against Decadence in the British Reception of Russian Music, 1897-1917 Philip Ross Bullock -- 9. 'Infantine Smudges of Paint... Infantine Rudeness of Soul': British Reception of Russian Art at the Exhibitions of the Allied Artists' Association, 1908-1911 Louise Hardiman -- 10. Crime and Publishing: How Dostoevskii Changed the British Murder Muireann Maguire -- 11. Stephen Graham and Russian Spirituality: The Pilgrim in Search of Salvation Michael Hughes -- 12. Jane Harrison as an Interpreter of Russian Culture in the 1910s-1920s Alexandra Smith -- 13. Aleksei Remizov's English-language Translators: New Material Marilyn Schwinn Smith -- 14. Chekhov and the Buried Life of Katherine Mansfield Rachel Polonsky -- 15. 'A Gaul Who has Chosen Impeccable Russian as his Medium': Ivan Bunin and the British Myth of Russia in the Early 20th Century Svetlana Klimova -- 16. Russia and Russian Culture in The Criterion, 1922-1939 Olga Ushakova.

17. 'Racy of the Soil': Filipp Maliavin's London Exhibition of 1935 Nicola Kozicharow -- 18. Mrs Churchill Goes to Russia: The Wartime Gift-Exchange between Britain and the Soviet Union Claire Knight -- 19. 'Unity in Difference': The Representation of Life in the Soviet Union through Isotype Emma Minns -- 20. 'Sputniks and Sideboards': Exhibiting the Soviet 'Way of Life' in Cold War Britain, 1961-1979 Verity Clarkson -- 21. The British Reception of Russian Film, 1960-1990: The Role of Sight and Sound Julian Graffy -- Index.

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