Monsters of Russian Literature

[Tatyana Buzina]

Eto, verno, kosti glozhet
Krasnogubyi vurdalak.

Also Pushkin's "Marco Yakubovich" from "Pesni zapadnykh slavyan" which is about vampires, too, and Alexei K. Tolstoy's vampires (Sem'ia vurdalakov if memory serves). 

And Alexei N. Tolstoy's statue that Caliostro brings to life in the story that is called  "Graf Caliostro."

Plus, any collection of "Russkie romanticheskie povesti" (which should rather be called Russian Gothic tales of terror) will feature a number of lovely monsters starting with Porogelsky's "Lafertovskaia makovnitsa" with a witch's cat turning into a prospective fiance for the witch's heiress. Zagoskin's "Kontsert besov" leaps to mind, too. 

Tatyana

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