НА РАСПУТЬЕ

The article, based on a white paper autograph kept at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture, presents A. M. Remizov’s short story At the Crossroads, the source of which is the texts from S. P. Remizova-Dovgello’s early memoirs.

THE PROJECT OF THE INTERNET PORTAL DOSTOEVSKY AND THE WORLD: ON THE PROBLEM OF RECEPTION OF THE WRITER’S BIOGRAPHY AND WORK IN THE MODERN WORLD

The article deals with the new project — the Internet portal Dostoevsky and the World, launched by the Pushkin House for the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth. The work offers the basic information on the project. The Internet resource that would host the most representative examples of the reception of Dostoevsky’s personality and work in various epochs and in various countries is a great way to familiarize the modern reader with the wide scope of interest in Dostoevsky in the past and present. The project focuses on the non-academic reception, philosophical and aesthetic interpretations, the attitudes of public fi gures, writers, stage and movie directors, publicists, etc. The collection of case studies of Dostoevsky’s reception by today’s cultural fi gures, as well as the publication of the previously unknown writer-related sources of the past years, are of particular importance.

WE NEED TO LET THE TIME TAKE ITS COURSE: K. N. LEONTIEV AND E.-M. DE VOGÜÉ

In the early 1870s, in Constantinople, K. N. Leontiev met a young French diplomat and writer, Viscount E.-M. de Vogüé. The article outlines the subsequent events, as refl ected in the correspondence between Leontiev and his friend K. A. Gubastov. Vogüé’s review of Leontiev’s work was discovered in one of the archival documents.

MEMORY AND TEXT: N. N. BERBEROVA ON A. A. BLOK

This article touches upon the funeral of A. Blok, as depicted by N. Berberova in her memoirs, The Italics Are Mine (1969). Specifi cally, it analyses the funeral episode in light of her earlier articles, published in 1931 and 1947. We examine the way Berberova modifi ed the story, giving us a unique opportunity to follow her path through memories to memoirs.

AT THE GATES OF THE RUSSIAN HANDWRITTEN TRADITION OF MODERN TIMES

[Review]: Shamin S. M. Inostrannye «pamfl ety» i «kur’ezy» v Rossii XVI — nachala XVIII stole tiia. M.: Ves’ Mir, 2020. 392 s.

VYACHESLAV IVANOV AND JAKOB BÖHME (RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM THEORY AND ACTUALIZATION OF THE GERMAN MYSTIC’S HERITAGE)

The article outlines the insuffi ciently studied issue «Vyacheslav Ivanov and Jakob Böhme». The goal of the research is to defi ne the sources that infl uenced Vyach. Ivanov’s theory of religious realistic symbolism. The philosophy of Vyach. Ivanov’s art is analyzed, and the contingencies between his theory and the mystic learning of Böhme and his followers concerning symbolic correspondences are highlighted. It is shown that, postulating his principles of religious symbolism, Ivanov relied on Böhme’s principles of symbolic nature of reality, that were connected to the traditions of the Medieval Christian Neoplatonism.

LETTERS OF I. A. GONCHAROV IN THE EPISTOLARY AND LITERARY CONTEXT

The epistolary of I. A. Goncharov has not yet been reliably compared with the letters of his predecessors. Meanwhile, the search for the typological parallels in the epistolary and literary context of the era is instrumental for outlining the connections between the novelist’s letters and a whole range of artistic traditions of salon correspondence, romantic mystifi cation and familiar letter as a literary genre.

RUSSIAN CHARACTERS IN THE WORKS OF RAMÓN DEL VALLE-INCLÁN

In 1929 and 1932, Valle-Inclán published two versions of a fragment from his novel Advantage of Swords. A Russian character is at the center of the plot: the narrative revolves around him, his appearance and personality are described in detail, he talks a lots and delivers speeches, while his name goes through a change. He is called Petr Kropotkin in the fi rst version and Mikhail Bakunin in the second one. The writer wanted to describe a Russian revolutionary, an anarchist, well-known in Spain — and for him it hardly mattered which one he would take: both persons were equally suitable for the role.

HÖLDERLIN WOULD EXPLAIN: THE POETICAL THINKING OF FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN AND ITS RECEPTION BY BORIS POPLAVSKY

The article focuses on the two notions recurrent in Boris Poplavsky’s late-period oeuvre, namely the «Paradise and Kingdom of friends» and the «Republic of the Sun». These are linked to Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetical philosophy, which solicited vivid interest among the German and French poets of the 1910–1930s. It is assumed that the semantic aura of the image of the fl ag, one of the most frequent in Poplavsky, might have been formed in a «dialogue» with Hölderlin’s key poem Hälfte des Lebens. Besides, the poem Quietly the City Rustles, which holds a place of prominence in his posthumous collection Snowy Hour (1936), seems to be an imitation of the fi rst stanza of Hölderlin’s famous elegy Brot und Wein.

NEW MATERIALS FROM THE AMHERST MEREZHKOVSKY ARCHIVE 2. N. A. BERDIAEV IN THE «DIARIES» OF T. N. GIPPIUS (1906–1908)

This publication introduces the academic community to the new data from the archives of the Merezhkovskys and D. V. Filosofov, which are stored in the Amherst Center for Russian Culture (Massachusetts, USA). It presents a selection of letters by Filosofov (1906) and N. A. Berdiaev (1907) that provide new details concerning the relationship between the two. Excerpts from the «diaries» of T. N. Gippius that supplement the «Berdiaev» narrative are published as an appendix.