Translation of: Tussen twee bronzen ruiters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Imperator Peter the Great -- Chapter Two: Petro Primo Catharina Secunda -- Chapter Three: Diamonds for Scholarship: The birth of \'Altphilologie\' in Russia -- Chapter Four: Aere Perennius: Alexander Pushkin -- Chapter Five: Interlude: The Frame of Reference -- Chapter Six: The Iron Age: 1825-1855 -- Chapter Seven: The Lost Past of Nikolai Gogol -- Chapter Eight: The Two sides of Ivan Goncharov -- Chapter Nine: \'The ideal professor\': Timofei Granovsky -- Epilogue -- Index of names.

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The author shows how the history of the classical tradition in Russia cannot be separated from the history of Russia's orientation to Western Europe in general. His book, based on many little-known and previously unexplored Russian materials, is the result of the first comprehensive research on the study of the Greek and Roman classics in Russia, and its sociocultural —utopian as well as ideological— function within the framework of Russian cultural and intellectual history and Russian educational policy from the accession of Peter the Great to the death of Nicholas I. A tradition does not exist apart from the people who adhere to it and the networks they create in order to ensure some kind of growth and continuity. Therefore the author has ordered his material into an interpretive framework based on a prosopographical approach towards the subject. Among specific writers and poets discussed are Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov and Turgenev.