The two volumes of The Russian Image of Goethe constitute the only study in a western language on Goethe s reception in Russia. Volume II is a seamless continuation of the earlier book, covering the second half of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth. The two volumes of The Russian Image of Goethe constitute the only study in a western language on Goethe s reception in Russia. Volume II is a seamless continuation of the earlier book, covering the second half of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth.