Introduction. Russian modernist studies: a centennial perspective / Irina Shevelenko -- I. Concepts in Flux. The terminological labyrinth of Russian modernist studies / Leonid Livak -- II. Aesthetics and Pragmatics. Shifting time-frames and metaphorical spaces: Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian modernism, and the classical past / Judith E. Kalb -- Pan-slavism redux, or speaking Russian in modernist tongues / Irina Shevelenko -- Arranging the absolute: the modernist rupture of history and urban space in the Soviet era / Thomas Seifrid -- III. Science and Medicine. Darwin and Russian modernism / David Bethea -- The discourse of sexual psychopathy in Russian modernism / Evgenii Bershtein -- Civilization, irony, neurasthenia: anti-Semitic discourse in the writings of Aleksandr Blok / Arkadii Blumbaum -- IV. Religion and Spirituality. Religion, secularism, and modernist culture in Russia: the case of Aleksandr Dobroliubov / Thomas H. Tabatowski -- Russian modernity meets yoga / J. Alexander Ogden