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Lyubov V. Sumatokhina
Lyubov V. Sumatokhina, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1803-616X
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Аbstract:
In the article, with the involvement of materials from the Archive of A.M. Gorky (IWL RAS, Moscow), the little-known fact of the collaboration of the German writer Theodor Plivier in the magazine “Kolkhoznik” created by M. Gorky is considered. For the first time, Gorky’s notes are given on typewritten manuscripts of Plivier’s story “Confession” and a fragment of his novel “The Kaiser is Gone, the Generals are left,” stored in Gorky’s Archive and printed in the Kolkhoznik magazine under the general heading “Kiel.” The history of this publication is revealed, its composition is analyzed. Fixed errors in the dating of letters and comments on Gorky’s correspondence with V.Ya. Zazubrin, admitted in the first publication.