Abstract:
This is the fourth volume of the series Vyacheslav Ivanov. Research and Materials. Russian and foreign scholars explore Vyacheslav Ivanov’s poetics, his originality, the aesthetic and historiosophical traditions that inform it (St. Augustine, Fyodor Dostoevsky), the reception of Ivanov's works by Valery Bryusov, Ivanov's reception of the dramas of Dmitry Merezhkovsky, the poet's relationship to his contemporaries (Zoya Bukharova, Yuly Aikhenwald, Jean Chuzeville, Giovanni Papini, students of Baku University), the influence — direct or typological — of Ivanov's ideas on twentieth-century scholars (M.M. Bakhtin, Rene Girard, Ludmila Gogotishvili). Previously unpublished works are introduced: Lidia Zinovieva-Annibal’s drama “The Great Bell”, letters to Ivanov by Yury Verkhovsky and Olga Shor, a synopsis of the 1920 Pushkin Seminar that Ivanov led. On the basis of archival materials, Ivanov’s role in the publication of Italian translations of Vladimir Solovyov’s articles in the 1930s is traced, and Ivanov’s pedagogical methods are reconstructed.
Keywords:
Vyacheslav Ivanov, poetics, aesthetic and historiosophical traditions, biography, correspondence, archival materials.
CONTENTS
From the Compilers (Elena А. Takho-Godi, Andrey B. Shishkin).......9
RESEARCH
I. Poetica
Maria Cymborska-Leboda
The Message of Medieval Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Writings of Vyacheslav Ivanov: “Above the Palimpsest of Saint Augustine’s Words”
Nina M. Segal-Rudnik
“Petrovskoye-na-Oke” by Vyacheslav Ivanov: Space and Time
Elena A. Andrushchenko
“…The Bottom Line, Drawn Publicly and Accessibly…”: on Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Article “Beside life” (1916)
Yuliya Yu. Anokhina
Historiosophical Aspects of Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Interpretation of “The Legends of the Grand Inquisitor”
Leonid G. Kaianidi
“Siloam of Blindness”: Valery Bryusov’s Insights and Delusions Regarding the Tragedy by Vyacheslav Ivanov “Prometheus”
Olga L. Fetisenko
“Geschenks-Widmung” by Vyacheslav Ivanov: Subtext and Context
Liubov V. Mashtakova
The luminary of the Muses During the Storm: the Context of Vyacheslav I. Ivanov the Last Epistle to Yuri N. Verkhovsky
II. Biografica
Alexander L. Sobolev
Vyacheslav Ivanov and Zoya Bukharova
Elena А. Takho-Godi
Yuly I. Aykhenwald and Vyacheslav Ivanov: Setting the Theme. Article One
Appendix I. Letters of Yu.I. Aykhenwald to Vyacheslav Ivanov
Appendix II. Yu.I. Aykhenwald. L.D. Zinovyeva-Annibal. A Tragic Menagerie. Stories
Vasily Rudich
Socrates in Baku: Prolegomena to the Pedagogic of Vyacheslav Ivanov
Stefano Garzonio, Bianca Sulpasso
Correspondence Between Vyacheslav Ivanov and Giovanni Papini
Appendix I. Letters of Vyacheslav Ivanov to Giovanni Papini
Appendix II. Letters of Giovanni Papini to Vyacheslav Ivanov
Appendix III. The letter of Giovanni Papini to Dimitry V. Ivanov
Natalia Gamalova
Meeting between Vyacheslav Ivanov and Jean Chuzeville in Rome
Appendix. Chuzeville J. The first Dionysian of Russian poetry
III. Maeutica
Vasily Rudich
The Sacrality of Sacrifice: Vyacheslav Ivanov and René Girard
Svetlana V. Fedotova
“Mysteries of the Linguistic Sphinx”: Vyacheslav Ivanov and Mikhail Bakhtin in Ludmila A. Gogotishvili’s interpretation
Appendix. Gogotishvili Ludmila A. Simbolism
Elena K. Sozina
About the Symbols of Vyacheslav Ivanov: Ludmila A. Gogotishvili’s Method
Yulia B. Demidenko
“Terror Antiquus” by Leon Bakst: Towards the Reconstruction of the Idea
Appendix. The Letter of Alexandre N. Benois to Vyacheslav Ivanov
MATERIALS
L.D. Zinovyeva-Annibal. Drama “The Great Bell”. Preface by Andrey B. Shishkin, text preparation by Natalia A. Yakovleva and Andrey B. Shishkin
Letters and Epistles of Yuri Verkhovsky to Vyacheslav Ivanov. Preface, text preparation and notes by Alexander L. Sobolev
Appendix. List of mutual poetic dedications left out of publication
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Nikolai Berdyaev and Others at the Meetings of the Pushkin Seminary in 1919: Notes by I.A. Kashkin. Preface and notes by Elena V. Glukhova, text preparation by Elena V. Glukhova and Olga L. Fetisenko
From Olga Shor’s Letters to Vyacheslav Ivanov. Preface, text preparation and notes by Olga L. Fetisenko