Acknowledgments Introduction Susanne Fusso and Alexander Lehrman The Poetics of Karolina Pavlova Alexander Lehrman Karolina Pavlova B. Grifcov Abandoned Meditation: Karolina Pavlova's Early Poetry Stephanie Sandler and Judith Vowles Karolina Pavlova's A Twofold Life Olga Peters Hasty Pavlova's Dvojnaia zhizn' : An Icon Turns the Plot Romy Taylor Living Poetry: The Mute Poet and the Double Life Ginger B. Lazarus Gender and Genre in Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life Diana Greene Pavlova's Quadrille : The Feminine Variant of (the End of) Romanticism Susanne Fusso Karolina Pavlova and Louise Colet: Materials for a Cross-Cultural Study Priscilla Meyer Karolina Pavlova's Afterlife in the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova Susan Amert Almost a Hundred Years Later: Toward a Comparison of Karolina Pavlova and Marina Cvetaeva Tomas Venclova Karolina Pavlova in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita Alexander Lehrman Music and Painting in Karolina Pavlova's Life Mikhail Fajnshtejn The German Period in the Life and Work of Karolina Pavlova Frank Göpfert Appendix 1: A Chronology of Karolina Pavlova's Life Alexander Lehrman Appendix 2: Solution to Priscilla Meyer's Colet-Pavlova Conundrum Notes on Contributors.