Information about the author:
Yury A. Azarov
Yuri. A. Azarov, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2897-5526
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Abstract:
The monograph is devoted to the history of Russian émigré literature of the first wave. Thanks to the government’s Russian Help Action aimed at supporting refugees in the 1920s one of the most significant literary, cultural and scientific centres abroad was formed in Czechoslovakia. Many Russian writers, scientists and public figures found refuge in Prague, among them are literary critic A.L. Bem, literary secretary of Leo Tolstoy V.F. Bulgakov, poet and journalist B.A. Evreinov, satirist A.T. Averchenko, prose writers and poets D.M. Ratgauz, P.A. Kozhevnikov, Vas.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, M.I. Tsvetaeva, E.N. Chirikov, philosopher and writer K.A. Chkheidze, poet and art critic S.K. Makovsky, linguist and literary critic R.O. Jakobson and many others. The book as a whole is analytical and contains chapters based on documentary material and touching on various aspects of the existence of the first wave emigration.
Keywords: Russian émigré literature, Russian Prague, Russian Help Action, Vas.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, E.N. Chirikov, V.F. Bulgakov, A.L. Bem.