As Don has mentioned before, Simon Karlinsky suggests that we should not expect the Russian novelist in Ch. 6 to be a writer we know but consider him an amalgam (like Koncheyev in *The Gift*) of several nineteenth-century Russian writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Vladimir Odoevsky. All of them have similarities to and differences from the novelist in question. According to Karlinsky, *Faust in Moscow* would be a highly appropriate title for Odoevsky's *Russian Nights*. I would be grateful if Alexey or anyone would kindly tell me more about the novel. Are there parallelisms between the novel and TT?

Russian Nights (1844)

Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky (1804-1869)

This captivating novel is the summation of Odoevsky's views and interests in many fields: Gothic literature, romanticism, mysticism, the occult, social responsibility, Westernization, utopia and anti-utopia. Compared to The Decameron, to Hoffman's Serapion Brethren, and to the Platonic dialogues, Russian Nights is a unique mixture of romantic and society tales framed by Odoevsky's musings on strands of Russian thought and his own obsessions.

A thing about Dostoevsky. Recently I happened to read that Dostoevsky wrote in *A Writer's Diary* that he took Swedenborg's psychic powers of clairvoyance seriously. Does he write about clairvoyance or translucency in his works?