Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on Transliteration Introduction: The Sincere Voice, or How Sincerity Is Written and Read in Russian, and Not Only Russian, Poetry Preliminaries Two Poles in the Conceptualization of Sincerity Voice Decoding Sincerity The Structure of This Study 1. The Problem of Sincerity and the Poetic Device in Derzhavin's Odes 2. Romantic Sincerities I From Genre to the Sincere Voice (Alexander Pushkin) Romantic Charisma and the Material Trace (Dmitry Venevitinov) 3. Romantic Sincerities II: Late-Romantic Sincerities Disarming the Byronic Hero (Mikhail Lermontov) A Poetics of Abandon (Apollon Grigoryev) 4. A Fault Line in Modernism Blok vs. Mandelstam Parallels in Anglo-American Modernism Two Poems 5. Poetic Sincerity in the Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Context Anna Akhmatova's Requiem at the Crossroads of Sincerity Expectations The Second Epilogue: Confession of Hubris? Konstantin Levin: An Ironic Mid-Century Sincerity 6. Case Studies in Turn-of-the-Millennium Sincerity Boris Ryzhy's Renewal of Traditional Sincerity The "Prodigal" Sincerity of Timur Kibirov Conclusion Appendix: Another Vista on Pushkin's "Monument" Notes References Index.