«DON’T TRY TO PORTRAY SASHA ICONICALLY»: A LETTER FROM G. P. BLOK TO S. N. TUTOLMINA (1946)

Abstract

The publication relates the history of the aborted book of memoirs about A. Blok, which was being prepared in August and September 1946. The author of the published letter, G. P. Blok (1888–1962), novelist, translator, publisher, cousin of the famous poet and editor of the planned collection, approaches the poet’s cousin S. N. Tutolmina (nee Kachalova; 1880–1967) with a proposal to write new, more detailed memoirs, and as a professional editor offers certain guidelines on how to write memoirs in general and about A. Blok in particular.