"This book shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature (the themes of horror, medieval barbarity, darkness, and transgression) frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity"--

Introduction: From the Island of Bornholm to Taman: The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny
Part I: The North
1. A Gothic Prelude: Nikolai Karamzin's "The Island of Bornholm"
2. In Search of the Russian Middle Ages: The Livonian Tales of the 1820s
3. "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation
Part II: The South
4. Ukraine: Russia's Uncanny Double
5. On Mimicry and Ukrainians: Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorelsky's The Convent Graduate
6. 'Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine