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Abstract:

This article investigates the legacy of Alexander Sergeyevich Voznesensky (1880–1939), an early 20th-century poet, playwright, translator, and screenwriter. It examines his multifaceted creative work throughout the 1900s–1930s, his literary and cinematic experiments, and his connections with Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, and Korney Chukovsky. The study traces the writer’s biography and sheds light on the full generic diversity of his output — from feuilletons and lyric poetry to plays and screenplays. It establishes a connection between his literary practice and his revolutionary-for-its-time film theory, based on the concept of “silence” as an aesthetic dominant. The article introduces into scholarly discourse previously unpublished archival materials that clarify the writer’s biography and creative contacts (four letters from Voznesensky to Gorky from 1910, 1921, 1926, and 1933, and one letter to I.K. Luppol from 1936). It also republishes Voznesensky’s little-known essay “A Few Minutes with Maxim Gorky” (1902). This research reconstructs a comprehensive portrait of A.S. Voznesensky as a distinctive and original literary figure.

Keywords: A.S. Voznesensky, M. Gorky, literary process, lyric poetry, screenplay, dramaturgy.