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Abstract:

The collective monograph presents the latest research on the biography, legacy, and fate of the ideas of Mikhail Prishvin (1873–1954). The work considers literary-aesthetic and religious-philosophical aspects of writer’s works, and reveals the main constants of the artistic world, lines of dialogue with contemporaries. The monograph reconstructs the cultural landscape of the creative path of Prishvin, being at once a writer and publicist, local historian and ecologist, myth-maker and religious thinker. New archival materials are being introduced into scientific circulation. The book is relevant to philologists and philosophers, historians, cultural scientists, teachers, and anyone interested in the history of Russian thought and culture.

Keywords: M.M. Prishvin’s creative legacy, literary and philosophical context, problematics and poetics, Prishvin and his contemporaries.

CONTENTS

E.Yu. Knorre
Preface

PROBLEMATICS AND POETICS OF CREATIVITY

Valery I. Tiupa
Prishvinʼs Contribution to Literary Theory
Yuri B. Orlitsky
Prishvin and Free Verse
Natalia P. Dvortsova
Mikhail Prishvin on Birds and Other Winged Creatures
Elena Yu. Knorre
“I Saved and Brought the Spring of Light to the People”: Kitezh Text by Mikhail Prishvin
Natalia A. Trubitsina
Culturogenic Imperatives in Mikhail Prishvin’s Story “The Worldly Chalice”
Nina A. Dvoryashina
“Religion of Childhood” in M.M. Prishvin’s Creative Perception
Igor S. Uryupin
The Image of the Russian Shepherd in Mikhail Prishvin’s Story “Spas-Chekryak”
Olga A. Bogdanova
Dynamics of the Estate Image in M.M. Prishvin’s Works of the First Third of the 20^th Century: “At the Walls of the Invisible City” (1909), “Adam” (1918), “The Worldly Chalice” (1922), “Kashchey’s Chain” (1927)
Оksana А. Novikova, Eleonora L. Kotova
“Empire Palace”: Alexino in Mikhail Рrishvin’s Creative Life

Valeria G. Andreeva
The Image of the Land in the Context of the Estate Theme in M.M. Prishvin’s Novel “Kashchey’s Chain”
Yana Z. Grishina
“An Invisible City is Built and Growing...”: The Artist and the Time (Based on M.M. Prishvin’ s Diaries of 1930–1931)
Ivan A. Esaulov
“My Motherland is the Captain’s Daughter”: Prishvin as a Reader
Olga V. Astafyeva
Mikhail Prishvin’s “The Treasure Trove of the Sun” as an Easter Text
Varvara K. Burtseva
“Much of a Soviet Thing, but Without Sycophancy”: “The Treasure Trove of the Sun” as a Philosophical Manifesto
Ilya V. Kuznetsov
“Eyes of the Earth” by Mikhail Prishvin as a Late Modern Text
Sergei R. Fediakin
Creating an Image. Features of the Architectonics of Mikhail Prishvin’s Book “The Eyes of the Earth”
Natalia A. Merkuryeva
Overcoming the War by the Power of “Birth”: The Image of Lyalya in M. Prishvin’s Diaries, 1939–1945

MIKHAIL PRISHVIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Alexey N. Varlamov
Clavdophora: Prishvin and Two Platonovs
Anzhelika I. Dormidontova
M.M. Prishvin and K.G. Paustovsky. Creative Dialogue
Evgeniy N. Nikitin
M.M. Prishvin and S.T. Grigoriev. Relationship History
Anastasia G. Gacheva
Mikhail Prishvin and Alexander Gorsky: Spiritual and Creative Dialogue
Irina V. Kochergina
Yu.I. Eichenwald’s Evaluation of M.M. Prishvin’s Works
Tatiana G. Shchedrina, Irina O. Shchedrina
“Undressed Spring”: Prishvin’s Ecological Hermeneutics (Experience of Methodological Reading)
Lyudmila Yu. Surovova
The Controversy Surrounding M. Prishvin’s “Undressed Spring”: “Friends” and “Enemies”
Larisa N. Anpilova
Prishvin Through the Eyes of Favorsky
Elena A. Khudenko
“Between Scylla and Charybdis”: Mikhail Prishvin’s Writing Strategies in the 1930s 
Aleksandr M. Podoksenov
Artist and Power: Mikhail Prishvin and Soviet Leaders
Dmitry D. Nikolaev
“Should We Call Him a ʽSoviet Writer’?” Criticism of the Russian Diaspora About Mikhail Prishvin in the 1920s–1930s
Alexei M. Lyubomudrov
Correspondence of V.D. Prishvina with V.N. Bunina and L.F. Zurov

MIKHAIL PRISHVIN’S CREATIVE WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL AND WORLD CULTURE

Alexey P. Kozyrev
“My You”: Mikhail Prishvin as a Philosopher of Dialogue
Mikhalina M. Shibaeva
Mikhail Prishvin’s Creative Work in the Optics of Aesthetic Humanism
Aleksandr A. Medvedev
“Life is Joy”: Franciscan Foundations of Mikhail Prishvin’s Life-Creation Strategy
Olga I. Shapkina
About Mikhail Prishvin’s Cooperation with “Rech” Newspaper
Andrey V. Martynov
“Each of These Women Who Spoke at the Meeting Could Become Shakespeare if They Could Feel Eternity”: Western European Literature on the Pages of Prishvin’s Diary During the Revolution and the Civil War
Dmitrii V. Baranovskii
“The Treasure Trove of the Sun” by M.M. Prishvin in the Optics of Russian Cosmism
Elena S. Tverdislova
Mikhail Prishvin and Janusz Korczak: Childhood as an Existential and Religious Concept
Alexey V. Svyatoslavsky
The Problem of Marital Fidelity in the War Years: Based on the Works of M. Prishvin, G. Nikolayeva, A. Platonov, V. Nekrasov 
Yulia M. Bryukhanova
The Image of a Child as an Element of a Meta-Plot About Flooding (M. Prishvin, V. Rasputin, R. Senchin)
Kirill S. Yamshchikov
Diary as a Stylistic Instrument: Mikhail Prishvin and Witold Gombrowicz
Victor P. Vizgin
“Unripe Souls”: Gachev and Prishvin
Sergey A. Abramov
The Publication and Translation of Prishvin’s Novella “Ginseng” in Italy
Nadezhda A. Nikulina
Reader of Prishvin in ʽThe Age of Gadgets and Social Media'