Summer School on the Russian Literature. 2022.
Vol. 18. № 2

The article discusses debatable issues about the route, goals, and objectives of Afanasy Nikitin’s journey, about his status and about the prospective customers of the description of the journey.

Keywords: Old Russia, India, travel, spices, sacred myrrh, manuscript tradition.

Aleksandr Bobrov

Debatable Issues of Study „The Voyage Beyond Three Seas“ by Afanasy Nikitin

The article examines the program of The Emotionalists against the background of the aesthetic views of M. A. Kuzmin in his collection of critical prose Uslovnosti, and his poems from the collection Paraboly.

Keywords: Mikhail Kuzmin, The Emotionalists, Uslovnosti, Paraboly, aesthetic views.

Aleksandra Pakhomova

Mikhail Kuzmin’s aesthetic views in the 1920s: Uslovnosti, Paraboly and The Emotionalistsтов

This part of series of historical and literary commentary to the poet’s notebooks examines several of her literary relationships with some members of the Guild of Poets (1911–1914) and the intertextual ties of her poetry and prose with their poems.

Keywords: Anna Akhmatova, Guild of Poets, Sergei Gedroits, Graal Arel’skii (Stefan Petrov), Hippolytus, Nikolai Makridin, Theodora I — Byzantine empress.

Roman Timenchik

Towards the index of Anna Akhmatova’s notebooks: The Guild of Poets

The essay reconstructs the complicated relations of the members of the Association for Real Art (OBERIU), first of all, Daniil Kharms, with their authorities. The author tells the story of his „dangerous liaisons“ with Lydia Nadejena (Nadezhina), editor of the New York newspaper „Russian Voice“ and translator of L. Panteleev and Viktor Shklovsky into English. Kharms mentioned her during the very first interrogation after his arrest on December 10, 1931 in relation to „The Case of the Children’s Literature Sector of the State Publishing House“. The essay also reconstructs the story of the publication „Obereut“ in „New Russian Word“ another New York newspaper on February 17, 1928.

Keywords: Daniil Kharms, OBERIU, Lydia Nadejena, Alexei Panteleev, Samuil Marshak, Russian emigre press, Lidiia Lesnaia.

Andrei Ustinov

OBERIU as a „Foreign Agent“