Writers on writers - introductory essay, R. Aizlewood and F. Wigzell familiar solidarity and squabbling - Russia's 18th-century writers, G. Jones Fet on Tiutchev, R. Aizlewood Chekhov and Merezhkovskii, S. le Fleming Shestov on Chekhov, M. Jones Gumilev's reviews of Viacheslav Ivanov's "Cor Ardens" as a tool in the polemics of literary succession, P. Davidson missing links - Russian women writers as critics of women writers, C. Kelly Marina Tsvetaeva as literary critic and critic of literary critics, S. Forrester air, suffocation, muteness - Akhmatova, Mandel'shtam, Pasternak and Tsvetaeva, A. Naiman Joseph Brodsky on Marina Tsvetaeva, H. Gifford Nabokov and Dostoevskii - aesthetic demystification, N. Buhks the myth of the poet and the poet of the myth - poets on Brodsky, V. Polukhina Trifonov on Dostoevskii, D. Gillespie Zinov'ev on Chekhov, M. Kirkwood.