Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2021-22-225-251
Gennady V. Obatnin, K. A. Kumpan
{"title":"Nikolay Kotrelev. To the History of a Murder: From a Commentary on “Autobiographical Letter”","authors":"Gennady V. Obatnin, K. A. Kumpan","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2021-22-225-251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-22-225-251","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a transcription of N.V. Kotrelev’s report read in 2016 and dedicated to archival materials revealing the fate of Vyach. Ivanov's first wife, Darya Mikhailovna, and their daughter Alexandra, years after the church dissolution of their marriage in 1896. Over the years, their daughter developed a mental illness. Ivanov was very distressed by descriptions of the course of the disease and accused himself of “murder” of his daughter. In an attempt to help his first wife, who lost her income, Vyach. Ivanov applied for a subsidy and organizational support to the “Literary Fund” and in a letter addressed to the chairman of the fund (F.D. Batyushkov) described in detail the tragic situation. The materials from the archives of the Literary Fund (Manuscript Department of IWL RAS), presented in the appendixes, demonstrate the history of assistance to the Vyach. Ivanov’s daughter.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127097476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-196-219
I. Vinogradov
{"title":"“Deutero-Gogol’s”: N.V. Gogol, O.M. Somov and the History of Two Articles in “Northern Bee”","authors":"I. Vinogradov","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-196-219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-196-219","url":null,"abstract":"An unknown fact of “deutero-author's” (“second-author's”) publications of two ethnographic notes by N.V. Gogol from his handwritten “Book of all sorts of things, or the handy Encyclopedia” (1826–1830) is introduced into scientific circulation. The publications appeared in 1832, anonymously, in three issues of F.V. Bulgarin’s newspaper “Northern Bee”. It is proved that the articles were published not by Gogol himself, but by his fellow countryman and friend, the writer O.M. Somov, with whom the writer then not only communicated, but also shared ethnographic materials. It is established that the content of the articles exactly corresponds to Gogol’s notes “On the Little Russian weddings” and “Little Russian legends, customs, rituals” in his “Book of all sorts of things...”. In addition to articles from Gogol's notebook, entitled “Observations in the Fatherland. Little Russians Wedding Ceremonies” and “Popular Beliefs. Mermaids” in the newspaper, several unknown publications by O.M. Somov in “Northern Bee” are revealed. In 1832, the newspaper published two of his stories: “Organist Tomasz”, “Dancers on the Rope”, as well as a translation of a fragment from “Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft” by W. Scott (1830), entitled “The Story of a Free Spirit-Seer”. The possible influence of “Organist Tomash” on the creation of Gogol's story “Taras Bulba” is noted. The study of Somov's journalistic activities as an employee of “Northern Bee” replenishes the history of the lifetime publications of Gogol's texts and opens a new page in the communication of two compatriot writers.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116580104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2023-27-246-257
Alexander V. Lavrov
{"title":"“A Familiar Khlebnikov Specialist in Kiev.” For the 85th Jubilee of A.E. Parnis","authors":"Alexander V. Lavrov","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2023-27-246-257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2023-27-246-257","url":null,"abstract":"The article is dedicated to the anniversary of Alexander E. Parnis, who is known as a foremost researcher of Velimir Khlebnikov’s works, Russian futurism and Russian literature of the early 20th century overall. The author of the article marks main landmarks of the creative biography of the scholar, evaluates his most significant works and shows their importance for modern history of Russian literature. The text includes some personal memoires by the author who has been on close friendly terms with A. Parnis for many years. The work of the scholar is not only an overcoming of the resisting material, which, thanks to his efforts, becomes а transformation of the hidden into the open, of the unknown into the knowable, but also, to a certain extent, an overcoming of himself. The main wish to the “hero of the day” is to complete his main work, i. e. the scientific biography of Velimir Khlebnikov, chapters from which are already beginning to reach the reader.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131344340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2023-27-269-277
Maksim S. Shchavlinsky
{"title":"Bibliography of Publications by I.A. Bunin and V.N. Muromtseva-Bunina in the “Novyi Zhurnal” / “The New Review”","authors":"Maksim S. Shchavlinsky","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2023-27-269-277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2023-27-269-277","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides a complete bibliography of publications by I.A. Bunin and V.N. Muromtseva-Bunina in the “New Journal,” as well as publications prepared by the heirs (and researchers with their permission), namely L.F. Zurov, M.E. Green, Yu.V. Maltsev. The author of the article eliminates shortcomings and errors of bibliographers and adds previously missed publications.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131453857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2022-25-25-57
A. Y. Zadneprovskaya
{"title":"“A Person Becomes Better after a Great Trial” (Tanya Wagner’s Letters, 1939–1945)","authors":"A. Y. Zadneprovskaya","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2022-25-25-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-25-25-57","url":null,"abstract":"The article contains letters (1939–1946) of a Leningrad teenage girl Tanya Wagner preserved in her family archive. Most of them were addressed to her mother Maria F. Wagner, deportee after her husband had been arrested and then shot. These letters are at the same time a diary, a chronicle of life in pre War and then besieged Leningrad. The appendix contains an extract from her unpublished memoir on the siege of Leningrad, written in later years.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134265664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2022-26-183-201
Olga S. Pospelova
{"title":"The Image of Bluebeard in the Age of Symbolism","authors":"Olga S. Pospelova","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2022-26-183-201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-26-183-201","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the symbolics in the play “Ariana and Bluebeard, or Vain Deliverance” (1896) by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck and in the libretto “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” by the Hungarian writer Béla Balazs (1911). There is a transformation of the Bluebeard story from folklore to the field of symbolist and neo-romantic literature, where it undergoes significant changes, being transformed into a “new age myth.”","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124052437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-164-181
A. Sobolev
{"title":"New Materials about Arthur Khominsky (His Letters to Mikhail P. Alexeev)","authors":"A. Sobolev","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-164-181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-164-181","url":null,"abstract":"Arthur Sigismundovich Khominsky (1888 — after 1917) was a Kyiv poet and prose writer, the author of five poetry collections and a prose book “The Comfort of Jenkini” (1914). He called himself the founder of the “Alexander Blok Society” in Kyiv, sometimes being more radical in his own creative experiments than Russian symbolism Maitre. Together with Mikhail P. Aleхeev and the poet Maxim F. Rylsky they organized the literary group “Kyiv Anthropophages”, which existed in 1914–1915. The article and comment are attached to the publication of Arthur Khominsky’s creative heritage from the archive of Aleхeev who became an Academician later. Hitherto unknown Khominsky's letters to Aleхeev as well as his poetic and prose texts not only help to complete his image as an extraordinary author but contain interesting facts about literary life of the 1910s.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121193051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-185-195
V. Terekhina, N. V. Kotrelev
{"title":"“…Given to Comrade V.V. Mayakovsky”: An Unknown Letter by Lunacharsky to Dzerzhinsky","authors":"V. Terekhina, N. V. Kotrelev","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-185-195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-185-195","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the historical context of the first-published document from the GARF foundations — A.V. Lunacharsky's letter of recommendation about V.V. Mayakovsky, addressed to F.E. Dzerzhinsky on April 13, 1918. In this regard, Mayakovsky was recommended to Dzerzhinsky as well-in knowledge of “artists, poets and other actors, in one way or another associated with anarchist groups”, for their “rehabilitation and termination of persecution”. The article establishes a link between the two events related to the published letter, namely, the release of the first and only issue of “Futurist Newspaper” on March 15 and the closing of “Cafe of Poets” on April 14, 1918. Based on the published letter, the article establishes a connection between the two events, namely, the release of the first and only issue of “Futurist Newspapers” on March 15 and the closing of “Cafe of Poets” on April 14, 1918. It concludes that there is a need for an in-depth examination of the anarchist period in Mayakovsky's creative biography. In this context, Lunacharsky's letter of recommendation to Dzerzhinsky is the earliest official document of Mayakovsky’s soviet period.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128454759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2023-28-241-264
Alexander N. Taganov
{"title":"Reception of Proust in Russia in the 1920s","authors":"Alexander N. Taganov","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2023-28-241-264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2023-28-241-264","url":null,"abstract":"The article traces the history of the reception of Marcel Proust’s works in Russia, which began in the 1920s. The problem of studying the perception of Proust’s literary heritage, which has not yet been fully investigated, is of particular importance, since it allows us to touch upon a number of important issues of theoretical and historical-literary plans. Proust as an object of research is chosen here not by chance. In the world literary space there are special constant values, which, if to compare with various artistic phenomena, allows us to understand their artistic value, to follow the change of axiological parameters that determine the state of a particular stage of the literary process and to identify the main directions of development in it. Reception in the Russian culture works by Proust, which, of course, is one of such values, deserves special attention and study, since it reveals important moments not only in the creative activity of the French writer, but also in the development of Russian fiction and literary criticism. Based on the analysis of numerous documentary evidences contained in periodicals (“The Modern West,” “The Press and the Revolution,” “On a literary post,” etc.), theoretical and literary-critical works of authoritative literary critics (N.Y. Berkovsky, V.V. Weidle, B.A. Griftsov, A.K. Voronsky, etc.), in the statements of famous writers (O.E. Mandelstam, V.V. Mayakovsky, Y.K. Olesha, I. Ilf and E. Petrov), research reveals how the attitude to the works by Proust in the specified period of Soviet literature development, which is characterized by the coexistence and confrontation of various schools and trends (“Forge,” “Pass,” RAPP, LEF, etc.), helps to clarify their aesthetic orientation.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116421892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary FactPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-265-281
K. Dushenko
{"title":"Despicable Metal: the Entry of the Idiom into Literature","authors":"K. Dushenko","doi":"10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-265-281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-265-281","url":null,"abstract":"The Russian idiom “despicable metal” in the meaning of “gold/ money” was descendant of the phrases “vile metal” (calque from the French “vil metal”), “worthless metal,” “despicable gold” (calque from the French “or méprisable”). At first, they were used in a moralistic and exemplary context, as a sign of condemnation of the desire for enrichment. The idiom “despicable metal” also has a counterpart in French and German (“métal méprisable,” “verächtliche Metall”). It entered Russian literature at the turn of the 1830s and 1840s, and among the authors of the first row this expression is invariably given in an ironic and parodic manner, even before Goncharov’s Ordinary Story (1847). Nevertheless, the role of Goncharov’s novel in the perception of an idiom new to the Russian language was exceptionally great. “Despicable metal” is one of the cross-cutting motifs of the novel, arising in the context of fundamental polemics with a pseudo-romantic life concepts.","PeriodicalId":176975,"journal":{"name":"Literary Fact","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114190978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}