A female contemporary of Alexander Pushkin, Liubov Krichevskaya makes her Anglophone debut in an excellent translation of her fiction, drama, and poetry, which deftly capture women's estate in the early nineteenth century. Krichevskaya intriguingly combines Sentimentalist preoccupations--sensibility, virtue, and men's moral reformation through confrontation with exemplary women's passive piety--with the uncontrollable passions and volatile hero popularized...