Information about the author:
Armen V. Gevorkyan
Armen V. Gevorkyan, 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/0000-0002-2658-4580
Abstract:
The biography and cultural activities of M.A. and Pierre d’Alheim are closely connected with A. Blok, Andrei Bely, S.M. Solovyov, the Beketov, Kovalensky, and Turgenev families by personal and family ties. This publication presents hitherto unknown poetic message of Sergei Solovyov to Pierre d’Alheim, and his three letters to M.A. Olenina-d’Algeim, related to significant milestones in the poet’s biography: being treated in the sanatorium of Dr. N.A. Vyrubova, his mood on the eve of the wedding and in the Soviet period of cooperation with the Moscow Art Theater 2. Keywords: M.A. d’Alheim, Pierre d’Alheim, S.M. Solovyov, T.A. Turgenev, Andrei Bely, G. Rachinsky, poem “Rama,” Moscow Art Theater, Oresteia, poetic message, Russian symbolism, artistic culture of the early 20th century.
