Thanks to Jansy and Alexey, the thread connecting Pauline and Turgenev is getting thicker.  
 
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? 

Akiko