HOW THEY WANTED TO PUBLISH FIRDOUSI’S SHAHNAMEH AT VSEMIRNAYA LITERATURA PUBLISHING HOUSE

Abstract

The article analyzes the discussions concerning the prospects of publishing the Persian epic "Shahnameh" at the meetings of the Eastern Department of "Vsemirnaya Literatura" Publishing House in 1919. Based on the data from A. M. Gorky Archives, Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the chronology of the consideration of proposals for the translation of Fir-dousi’s epos, as well as of the discussions between the two reviewers, two employees of the "Vsemirnaya Literatura" Publishing House, N. S. Gumilyov and F. A. Rosenberg, have been reconstructed. As the result of this debate, N. S. Gumilyov came up with a suggestion to retranslate "Shahnameh".