Irina Evdokimova is an independent scholar and a lawyer who used to work as a Criminal Prosecutor for the Attorney General Office.Slav N. Gratchev is a professor of Spanish at Marshall University.Margarita Marinova is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Christopher Newport University.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionDmitry SporovDialogue 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"AfterwordCaryl EmersonNotes on the Photo Collection Ekaterina Snegireva About the Contributors

Irina Evdokimova is an independent scholar and a lawyer who used to work as a Criminal Prosecutor for the Attorney General Office.Slav N. Gratchev is a professor of Spanish at Marshall University.Margarita Marinova is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Christopher Newport University.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionDmitry SporovDialogue 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"AfterwordCaryl EmersonNotes on the Photo Collection Ekaterina Snegireva About the Contributors

Irina Evdokimova is an independent scholar and a lawyer who used to work as a Criminal Prosecutor for the Attorney General Office.Slav N. Gratchev is a professor of Spanish at Marshall University.Margarita Marinova is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Christopher Newport University.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionDmitry SporovDialogue 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"AfterwordCaryl EmersonNotes on the Photo Collection Ekaterina Snegireva About the Contributors