Alexander Pushkin in Bessarabia: literature and identity politics in the peripheryFootnote^*

* I have previously discussed some aspects of this article in an essay ‘Between Muse and Politics: Pushkin Museum-house in Chisinau and the (Un)Making of Heritage’ at the Platzforma web platform; see http://www.platzforma.md/between-muse-and-politics-pushkin-museum-house-in-chisinau-and-the-unmaking-of-heritage/, last modified 30 January 2016.

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