Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Dmitry Sporov
Dialogue I: Victor Ardov (1)
“How Sergey Yesenin recited poems, about one version of his suicide, and why fame cannot be trimmed by administrative means”
Dialogue II: Victor Ardov (2)
“On working with Vsevolod Meyerhold, and on bohemian life in Moscow in 1920s–1930s”
Dialogue III: Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky (1)
“On the failed duel in defense of Marina Tsvetaeva, and on the life of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris”
Dialogue IV: Roman Jakobson
“On my friendship with Vladimir Mayakovsky”
Dialogue V: Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky (2)
“On meetings with Pasternak and Babel, German captivity, the uprising on the Oleron island, and working at the UN”
Afterword
Caryl Emerson
Notes on the Photo Collection
Ekaterina Snegireva
About the Contributors