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  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Aida G. Razumovskaya
  • Pages: 436–451
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: Estate and Dacha in the Literature of the Soviet Era: Losses and Gains
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0758-8-436-451
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/IOEBCR

  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Razumovskaya, A.G. “‛The Shelon River Flows Like the Onegin Line’: the Kholomki Estate in the Space of Memory.” Estate and Dacha in the Literature of the Soviet Era: Losses and Gains: A Collective Monograph, comp. by O.A. Bogdanova, ex. ed. V.G. Andreeva, O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 436–451. (Series: “Russian Estate in a Global Context”, issue 8). (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0758-8-436-451

Information about the author:

Aida G. Razumovskaya (Pskov, Russia), DSc in Philology, Professor, Department of literature, State University of Pskov.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7289-0629.

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Abstract:

The article reveals the fate of the Gagarins’ estate Kholomki (Porkhov district of the Pskov province), built at the end of the estate culture and experienced a number of transformations throughout the 20th century. The main focus of the study is the reflection of the estate in the literature of the 1920s and subsequent years, which indicates the consolidation of the locus in cultural memory. The literary and artistic image of Kholomki, formed in the “blessed summer of 1921”, is associated with the organization of the Petrograd House of Arts on the former colony estate, where K. Chukovsky, M. Dobuzhinsky, V. Milashevsky, V. Khodasevich, E. Zamyatin, S. Neldichen and many others escaped from hunger and were engaged in creativity. The novelty of the research is determined by the analysis of a variety of verbal material (diary entries, letters, memoirs, poetic and prose works of the inhabitants of the Porkhov “dacha”), which made it possible to show the influence on the perception of the estate not only of the typically Russian nature of Kholomki, but also of the cultural memory of the creative intelligentsia, causing, in particular, associations with Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”. The author of the work concludes that cultural consciousness, yearning for the idyll of the past, continued to create the “estate myth” in the post-estate (revolutionary) time, transforming everyday life with literature.

  • Keywords: Kholomki estate, Petrograd creative intelligentsia, cultural memory, “estate myth”.

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