Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. The Earliest Accounts
California and the Russian American Company
Wrangell's Journey Through Mexico in 1836
2. The Age of Porfiro Diaz
Early Visitors
Patkanov in Yucatan
Protopopov
Devollan in "Montezuma's Kingdom"
The Mythological Mexico of Konstantin Balmont
Tverskoi's "Contemporary Mexico"
3. The Nineteen-Twenties: A Shared Revolutionary Experience
Diplomats Scientists, Dancers, and Athletes
S. S. Pestkovsky
Mayakovsky's Idiosyncratic Mexico
Aleksandra Kollontai
4. Sergei Eisenstein and the Eternal Circle
5. Postscript: Trotsky's Mexico
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index