""This book is a significant contribution to the field. Other scholars have decoded Masonic and other esoteric elements in Pushkin's writings, but to the best of my knowledge, Leighton is the only one who has revealed the esoteric dialogue between Pushkin and his contemporaries, and traced the path by which particular esoteric elements entered into Russian romantic literature. The chapters contain a wealth of material on the writings of certain Decembrists and their context.""-Bernice Glazer Rosenthal, Fordham University The European esoteric tradition was introduced into Russia in the eighteenth century by Freemasons and continued in Russian romantic literature of the early nineteenth century. This study, which conjoins historiographical methods developed by modern scholars of esoterica and formalist methods of textual analysis, reveals the role of that tradition in Russian romantic literature. It deals extensively with Decembrism, the political conspiracy so known after its...

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