Summer School on the Russian Literature. 2016.
Vol. 12. № 3

The article is devoted to the study of the new redaction of „Life of St. Moses, the archbishop of Novgorod“, written by Boris Kozynin. The paper investigates the sources of the text and describes the narrative techniques used by the author.

Keywords: hagiography, textual criticism, Boris Kozynin, „Life of St. Moses, the archbishop of Novgorod“, Novgorod the Great of the Middle Ages.

Alina Alekseeva

Kozinyn's redaction of „Life of St. Moses, archbishop of Novgorod“

The article suggests some additional notes to the textological and literary commentary to the famous poem by Alexander Pushkin. Revising the rough drafts of „The Demons“ in Pushkin’s working notebooks, the author proposes to revise their relative and absolute dating in order to liquidate chronological and logical contradictions in the history of the text. Moreover, the author introduces a previously unnoticed source for some descriptions in „The Demons“ — a satirical poem „The Vision on the banks of the Lethe“ (1809) by K. Batyushkov, which both contributes to the Arzamas subtext of „The Demons“ and emphasizes the principles of the late Pushkin’s poetics considering the work with a „foreign word“.

Keywords: A. Pushkin, „The Demons“, textological commentary, text history, K. Batyushkov, parody.

Alina Bodrova

On the history of the idea and text of Pushkin’s „The Demons“

The article is devoted to Krzhizhanovsky’s short story „Kvadraturin“, which can be interpreted relying on two similar theories such as Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Toporov’s idea of extratext. On the one hand, this methodological synthesis allows a functional determination of intertextual relations in the story. On the other hand, it may help to reveal a plenty of specific features inside the text, inscribing it in the literary tradition.

Keywords: S. D. Krzhizhanovsky, space, heterotopia, communal apartment text, Petersburg text.

Varvara Vasil'eva

The short story of S. D. Krzhizhanovsky „Kvadraturin“: on the question of the „communal text" of Russian literature

The article examines „The Moscow tale of the Novgorod campaign of Ivan III“, which locates in many chronicles of the XV–XVI centuries. The author analyzes the ideological and artistic peculiarities of the editions of this text.

Keywords: „The Moscow tale of the Novgorod campaign of Ivan III“, the Novgorod campaign of Ivan III in 1471, chronicles of the XV–XVI centuries.

Natalia Demicheva

Pecularities of the edition of „The Moscow tale of the Novgorod campaign of Ivan III“

The article deals with the specifics of recollection in the prose by V. S. Varshavskii, one of the younger emigre writers. The memory conception is reconstructed basing on his two early short stories. It is assumed that the „dispersed“ memory of his works is revealed in the Self — Not-Self opposition and inherits the memory conception of the novel „Adolescent“ by F. M. Dostoevskii.

Keywords: V. S. Varshavskii, Russian Montparnasse, younger emigre, memory conception, protagonist, F. M. Dostoevskii, the novel „Adolescent“.

Viktor Dimitriev

The „Dispersed“ memory of V. S. Varshavskii's prose of the 1920s and 1930s

The article analyzes the history of a cycle of poems by Wolf Ehrlich, which he devoted to his friend, poet N. Ilyin (Nilli). Ehrlich’s poems are investigated in the context of his biography, and also on the background of the theory of Vyach. Ivanov about Dionysus and „dionisiystvo“ which has been influenced Ehrlich. These poems are published for the first time (see supplement).

Keywords: Wolf Ehrlich, Nikolay Ilyin, Nilli, Vyach. Ivanov, vakhkhant, wine, almonds, Dionysus.

Alexander Kobrinsky

Wolf Ehrlich and Nikolai Ilyin (Nilli): bacchantes and Ivanov’s subtext

This paper analyzes specificities of Chekhov’s „Three sisters“ interpretation in a Spanish translation of E. Podgursky. It defines three meaningful levels of original text structure (level of intonation and syntax and level of notion) which successful interpretation can provide reconstruction of drama’s meaning and aesthetic impact by using a European language.

Keywords: А. P. Chekhov, translation, interpretation, drama, Spain.

Elena Kochegarova

Translation as interpretation
(„Three Sisters“ by A. P. Chekhov in Spanish)

This article focuses on Russian and Scandinavian comedies of the XVIII century, which tell us about a young man who has returned home from Paris. The article presents a comparative analysis of Russian and Swedish play reworks of L. de Boissy „Le Francois à Londres“.

Keywords: L. Holberg, L. Boissy, D. Fonvizin, C. Gyllenborg, Russian literature of the XVIII century, Swedish literature of the XVIII century, Danish literature of the XVIII century.

Mikhail Ljustrov, Andreii Ljusrov

Northern petimeters, or is it permissible for a well-mannered young man to visit Paris?

This paper is devoted to the participation of K. K. Vaginov in the Leningrad branch of the Russian Union of poets, the largest organization of writers in Leningrad in 1920 Conclusions about the involvement of Vaginov in the Union and the position of Union in literary process of that time based on the study of archival materials.

Keywords: Vaginov, Leningrad Union of poets, the 1920th literature, sociology of literature

Alexandra Pakhomova

Konstantin Vaginov in the Leningrad branch of the Russian Union of poets