Information about the authors:
Alexey V. Vostrikov
Alexey V. Vostrikov, Historian, Head of the “Bestuzhev Courses Library” sector, M. Gorky Scientific Library, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb., 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0821-9511
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Elena V. Glukhova
Elena V. Glukhova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
The article reconstructs unknown facts from the biography of Sofya Alexandrovna Sviridova, a writer, translator, and correspondent of A.A. Blok. The research considers in detail the period of her study at the Bestuzhev courses, her literary environment, and the circle of her intellectual interests. The appendix contains the “Gymnasium Album” of letters to her from her gymnasium friends with her comments and her letters to the anthroposophist O.N. Annenkova and writer I.A. Grinevskaya.
Keywords: S.A. Sviridova (Sviridenko), epistolary, Bestuzhev Courses, O.N. Annenkova, I.A. Grinevskaya.
