Information about the author:
Mikhail V. Kozmenko
Mikhail V. Kozmenko, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1229-2210
Abstract:
For the first time, the article presents several letters from Leonid Andreev to the artist, theater, and art critic Sergei Goloushev, with whom he had been linked since the beginning of his work in the Courier newspaper and joining the literary community “Sreda” (early 1900s). The publication aims to fill in biographical and literary-historical gaps, and to consider the originality of Andreev’s epistolary manner and its differences from typical examples of friendly correspondence of the turn of the 19th–20th century. The first letter (1906) reveals the depth and trust of friendly relations between the addressees. The main epistolary array (1912– 1914) is determined by a tense plot related to the dramatic plans and theatrical productions of Andreev’s plays. The publication ends with a letter from Goloushev to Andreev (1914), which highlights his publishing plans (he plans a collection about the war). The appendix presents his own story on a military theme (1915).
Keywords: Leonid Andreev, Sergey Goloushev, friendly correspondence, drama, World War I, journalism.
