About the author:
Alexander S. Alexandrov, PhD in Philology, Researcher, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova Emb., 4, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
This paper is devoted to the creative connections and relationships between I.I. Yasinsky and A. A. Izmailov. The researchers traced the history of their personal contacts on the eve of the February Revolution. The authors printed their bilateral correspondence from 1915–1916. This publication is accompanied by historical and literary commentaries. The correspondence is devoted to the editorial policy of the newspapers Birzhevye Vedomosti and Petrogradskiy Listok, the activities of the literary society “Strada” and the literary association “Vechera Sluchevsky”. The personality of L.N. Andreev, with whom both contemporaries communicated closely during this period, is also at the center of their correspondence.