31 P A. Viazemskii, "Izvestie o zhi...

31 P A. Viazemskii, "Izvestie o zhizni i stikhotvoreniiakh Ivana Ivanovicha Dmitrieva." Polnoe sobranie sochinenii kniazia P A. Viazemskogo. Vol 1 (St Petersburg: Izd. grafa SD Sheremeteva, 1878) 123

32 Derzhavin 6: 555 609 660 770-790

33 diocese the anonymous review in Biblioteka dlia chtenia, September, 1860 section 2: 12-13

34 Ia. K cavern "Ot izdatelia," Sochineniia Derzhavina from G. R. Derzhavin, vol. 6 (St Petersburg: Izd. Akademii nauk, 1871) 411 cave goes on to observe that when Derzhavin occasionally masters caught up emotionally in his account, the name becomes markedly less awkward.

35 A copyist's error provides curious if unwitting confirmation of to what extent deliberate and "official" Derzhavin's plain appeared. Ia. K.. Grot notes that any copies of the text include the title as "Zapiska" (official memorandum) rather than "Zapiski" (notes), although he indicates that it is clear from the manuscript copies that Derzhavin's hold handwriting gives the title as "Zapiski." behold Derzhavin, Sochineniia Derzhavina 6: 412

36 behold Andreas Sch?¶nle, Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 2000) 43

37 I. I. Dmitriev, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii (Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1967): 115 diocese also the excellent introductory article to this edition by the agency of G. P. Makogonenko, "Riadovoi na Pinde voin. (Poeziia Ivana Dmitrieva)," especially 45-47

38 Dmitriev, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii 114

39 Derzhavin wrote at amplification about the poet and the non-logic of inspiration, saying in part that "in primary inspiration there is neither connection nor cool-headed calculation; inspiration actually glides away from them . . ." See "Razsuzhdenie o liricheskoi poezii, ili Ob ode" Sochineniia Derzhavina 7: esp 522-524

40 Derzhavin 6: 610-611 704

41 Derzhavin 6: 693

42 Derzhavin 6: 694

DONALD LOEWEN is Assistant Professor of Russian at Binghamton University (SUNY) He has published a number of articles upon the autobiographical prose of Russian bards and is presently completing a work manuscript that shows how imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers used prose autobiographies to espouse poetry and the poet in the literary upheavals following the 1917 Revolution.

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