Information about ex. editor:
Monika L. Spivak
Monika L. Spivak, DSc in Philology, Head of the Department of Literary Heritage, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
This issue of the Literary Heritage Library presents the full text of the memoirs of Nadezhda Grigoryevna Chulkova (1874–1961), wife of the Symbolist poet, prose writer, literary historian Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov (1879–1939). Covering the period from 1900s to 1930s, memoirs are devoted to the Chulkovs’ Siberian exile, their travels abroad, literary life in the capital, everyday life of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. Certain chapters are devoted to major figures of Russian culture (L.N. Andreev, A.A. Akhmatova, A.A. Blok, A.S. Golubkina, V.I. Ivanov, A.M. Remizov, F. Sologub), and lesser known names (A.K. Gertsyk, E.P. Ivanov, V.N. Ivoilov-Knyazhnin, V.A. Pyast, V.A. Ternavtsev, V.A. and P.E. Shchegolev). The second part of the issue presents G.I. Chulkov’s currently known correspondence with V.I. Ivanov, F. Sologub and V.F. Khodasevich.
Keywords: history of Russian Symbolism, revolutionary movement, G.I. Chulkov, Russian modernism, literary life, memoirs, V.I. Ivanov, F. Sologub, V.F. Khodasevich.
