Information about the author:
Vyacheslav V. Savelov
Vyacheslav V. Savelov, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya Sq., 6, 125993 Moscow, Russia; Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3457-6051
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Abstract:
The article examines the fragments from the notebooks of A. Vinogradov (1888– 1946), connected with the death of Y. Sidorov (1887–1909). These records allow us to reconstruct episodes from the biography of Vinogradov, associated with his spiritual quest of 1909–1910. Vinogradov painfully experienced the death of his literary friend and tried to find a mystical justification. He connected what happened to the negative influence of D. Merezhkovsky, whose ideas Vinogradov and Sidorov were fascinated with before his death. Vinogradov also visited Leo Tolstoy but left unsatisfied with his conversation. Vinogradov’s emotional experience caused by Sidorov’s death is also considered in connection with his work on the unfinished story “Amazing Haze” (“Divnoe Marevo”). The research shows how the “text of life” in the notebooks gradually turns into the “text of art.” Most of the fragments from the notebooks, as well as some other documents, are introduced into scientific circulation.
Keywords: A.K. Vinogradov, Yu.A. Sidorov, notebooks, literary relations, epigones of symbolism.
