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Abstract:

The monograph is dedicated to the autobiographical documents of poets and writers of the Silver Age: A.A. Blok, Andrei Bely, L.N. Andreev, D.S. Merezhkovsky, M.M. Prishvin, I.A. Bunin, and others. The authors of the articles examine the stylistic originality of letters, memoirs, autobiographies, diaries and notebooks, and determine their significance in the culture of the turn of the century. The book presents hitherto unknown letters of L.N. Andreev, D.V. Filosofov, S.A. Sviridova, S.M. Solovyov, along with biographical materials of Vl. Piast, autobiographical notes of I.A. Bunin, L.L. Kobylinsky (Ellis). The reader will become acquainted with the notebooks of A.K. Gorsky and the diary entries of P.A. Florensky; as well as with the memoirs of N.G. Chulkova. The monograph is aimed at a wide range of readers interested in literature and culture of the the late 19^th – early 20^th centuries.

Keywords: ego-document, Silver Age, memoirs, letters, diaries, biographical materials, autobiography.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

I. Studies

ELENA A. ANDRUSHCHENKO. Semantic and Stylistic Features of D.S. Merezhkovsky’s “Notebook. 1919–1920”

VALERY V. PETROFF. An Early Edition of Andrei Bely’s Diaries of an Idiot: Some Observations

MONIKA L. SPIVAK. The Crime of Bugaev — Letaev — Korobkin (Three Versions of the Same Event in Andrey Bely’s Autobiographical Prose)

IOANNA B. DELEKTORSKAYA. Autobiographical Context and Mythology in Andrey Bely’s Book An Habitation in the Kingdom of Shadows

DINA M. MAGOMEDOVA. Alexander Blok’s Correspondence with His Mother as a Biographical Source 

ANTONINA G. GREK. Alexander Block’s 1917 Diary. Language Portrait of the Author

SVETLANA V. FEDOTOVA. “Erotic Gestures” in Epistolary Discourse (Based on the Correspondence Between A.A. Blok and L.D. Mendeleeva-Blok) 

ELENA E. TCHOUGOUNOVA-PAULSON. “God, When Creating, Wrapped His Heart in Dark Fabrics”: The Neo-Gothic Concept in Blok’s Diaries and Notebooks

FEDOR B. POLJAKOV. “An Inexorably Radiant Individual”: Memories of Childhood in Ellis’s Letters to Nikolai Zaretskii 

ALEXANDRA A. CHABAN. (Non) Fictional in the S.K. Makovsky’s Memoirs On Parnassus of the Silver Age

VERONIKA B. ZUSEVA-ÖZKAN. Narrative Structure and the Problem of Self-Identification in the “Сonfessions of a Grandson of the Underground Man” by A.A. Barkova

ELENA YU. KNORRE. The Path to the Invisible City: An Autobiographical Myth in Mikhail Prishvin’s Diaries

VYACHESLAV V. SAVELOV. Yu.A. Sidorov in A.K. Vinogradov’s Notebooks 

PATRIK VARGA. Goethe’s Fairy Tale in the Autobiographical Myth of M.V. Sabashnikova (Based on the Memoirs Green Snake)

II. Publications

MIKHAIL V. KOZ’MENKO. Monument of Soulful, but Biased Friendship. Letters from Leonid Andreev to Sergey Goloushev

OLGA A. BOGDANOVA. Thе Problem of Variability of the Archive Source (On the Example of N.G. Chulkova’s Memoirs)

ANASTASIA G. GACHEVA. Alexander Gorsky’s Notebooks of 1900–1912 as a Historical and Cultural Phenomenon

ANTON V. BAKUNTSEV. The Russian Bohemia at the Turn of the Century in “Autobiographical Notes” (1948) by I.A. Bunin

ALEXANDER L . SOBOLEV. Letters from Dmitry Merezhkovsky to Dmitry Filosofov

ALEXEY V. VOSTRIKOV, ELENA V. Glukhova. To the Biography of S.A. Sviridova: On the Materials of Private Correspondence. “Gymnasian Album”; Letters to O.N. Annenkova and I.A. Grinevskaya

ARMEN V. GEVORKYAN. S.M. Solovyov and the d’Alheim Family: Strokes to the Biography

NIKOLAI N. PAVLIUCHENKOV. The Epoch of “Deeds” in the Life of P.A. Florensky: From Diary Entries of the Early 1920s 

INNA V. G OLUBOVICH. “The Most Important of All the Babies...” Odessa Period of Vladimir Piast’s Life and Work in Ego-Documents

Index (compiled by Elena V. Glukhova)