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Slavica Revalensia
Number of Followers: 1  Open Access journalISSN (Print) 2346-5824 - ISSN (Online) 2504-7531 Published by Tallinn University  [5 journals]
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- Время в художественных текстах и
комментариях к ним [Time in Literary Texts and
Commentaries to Them]
Authors: Alexander Dolinin
Pages: 9 - 38
Abstract: Discussing anachronisms in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, Umberto Eco concluded that most of them remain unnoticed by the Model Reader of the text as they are never located “in very strategic places” and can’t be identified without specialized knowledge that the Model Reader does not have. The article develops upon Eco’s observations, arguing that such “invisible” anachronisms are intrinsic to those genres of the novel that set the task of portraying a distinctive epoch, from Walter Scott’s and Leo Tolstoy’s historical fiction to Sergei Gandlevsky’s representation of the 1970s. If a plot and characters of the text are somehow related to particular historical incidents and persons, the scholarly commentary ought to pinpoint and explain anachronistic discrepancies, but the attempts of annotators to ascribe temporal exactitude to ahistorical narratives (e.g., Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin) are seen as futile and even harmful.Keywords: 19th to 21st-Century Scottish and Russian Literature, Walter Scott (1771—1832), Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837), Leo Tolstoy (1828—1910), Sergei Gandlevsky (b. 1952), Eugene Onegin (1825—1832), Anna Karenina (1875—1877), Illegible: A Novel (2002), Chronology, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.01
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Удачные последствия неудачного
сватовства: Н. И. Тургенев в Англии
(1829—1830) [Successful Consequences of a Failed Suit: Nikolai Turgenev
in England (1829—1830)]
Authors: Vera Mil’china
Pages: 39 - 70
Abstract: The article of Prof. Vera Mil’china (RSUH / ИВГИ РГГУ, RANEPA / ШАГИ РАНХиГС) is based on Nikolai Turgenev’s unpublished correspondence, and explores an unknown episode from a Decembrist’s life story: his attempt to marry a daughter of a British squire. Turgenev’s letters show that this plan was one of the reasons why he reconsidered returning to Russia, where he had received in absentia a death penalty (later changed to a life-long hard labor term). In the beginning of 1830, Turgenev made the decision to return to Russia to affect a retrial that would allow him to overturn his conviction for high treason. However, none of this came to fruition: Turgenev did not marry Harriet Lovell and did not return to Russia.The article was written in the framework (and with the generous support) of the RANEPA (ШАГИ РАНХиГС) academic research program.Keywords: 19th-Century Russian History, Decembrists, Brothers Nikolai Turgenev (1789—1871) and Alexander Turgenev (1784—1845), Prince Petr Kozlovsky (1783—1840), Honoré de Balzac (1799—1850), Countess Frances Sarah Guidoboni-Visconti (neé Lovell, 1804—1883), Clara Viaris (1814—1891), Correspondence, Microhistory.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.02
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Из материалов для комментария к
«Капитанской дочке»: 1–25 [Notes and Queries on The
Captain’s Daughter (12—25)]
Authors: Alexander Ospovat
Pages: 71 - 91
Abstract: In these notes (see also the previous volume of Slavica Revalensia), Prof. Alexander Ospovat of UCLA identifies the sources of several segments of Alexander Pushkin’s novel _The Captain’s Daughter_, uncovers themes and events silently implied in the text (e. g., the protagonist’s sexual amusements, the money system in 18th-century Russia, a bath ritual in the Russian countryside, etc.), and reconstructs hidden meanings of individual episodes.Keywords: 19th-Century Russian Literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837), The Captain’s Daughter (1836), Annotations, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.03
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- «Вельможа» Крылова: Жанр, источники,
Authors: Ekaterina Liamina, Natal’ia Samover
Pages: 92 - 122
Abstract: This pioneering article-length study of Ivan Krylov’s last fable “Vel’mozha” (“Grand Seigneur”) addresses the text’s central character (there are serious reasons to assume that the grand seigneur represents Chancelor Viktor Kotchubey), and examines the fable’s pragmatics, involved allusions, and genre. It also puts forth a likely new date of the “Grand Seigneur’s” composition — 1834.Keywords: 19th-Century Russian Literature, Ivan Krylov (1769—1844), “Grand Seigneur” (1834), Prince Viktor Kochubey (1768—1834), Role Models “grand seigneur” / “homme d’état,” History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.04
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Кто такой «музыкант Набоков»' (Из
комментария к книге А. Ремизова «Учитель
музыки») [Who is “the Musician Nabokov”' Rereading Aleksey
Remizov’s The Music Teacher]
Authors: Sergei Dotsenko
Pages: 123 - 145
Abstract: This article is a close reading of a passage from _The Music Teacher_ by Aleksey Remizov mentioning “the musician Nabokov,” who changes his Paris apartments so often that letters to him fail to reach their addressee. Although the most likely person this passage seems to be hinting at is Nicolas Nabokov, a composer, it should rather be seen as a tongue-in-cheek attack against the composer’s cousin, Vladimir Nabokov — a writer who was at odds with Remizov. Remizov [justkui ütleb, et] person changing apartments too often, does not exist — he is nothing (and this is something Remizov would not have said about Nicolas Nabokov). Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Aleksey Remizov (1877—1957), The Music Teacher (1931—1934), Nicolas Nabokov (1903—1978), Vladimir Nabokov (1899—1977), Prototype, Russian Emigration, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.05
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Брюсов и Хокусай: Заметка об одном
эротическом образе [Bryusov and Hokusai: A Note on One
Erotic Image]
Authors: Pavel Uspensky
Pages: 146 - 152
Abstract: This article concerns the likely source of an erotic image from Valery Bryusov’s hoax poem collection Stikhi Nelli (Nelli’s Poems). It shows that the image of an octopus copulating with a woman in the culmination of the poem “Nochnoi ropot” (“Night Murmur”), is related to Japanese erotic engravings (shunga), and originates from Hokusai’s woodblock print “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” (1814). Thus, the source established supports the idea that shunga inspired European modernist poetry in its search for a new erotic language. Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Valery Bryusov (1873—1924), Nelli’s Poems (1913), Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, 1760—1849), Shunga, Iconographic Subtext, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.06
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Летние морозы, зимние купанья: Аспекты
никольского дискурса в поэтике М. А.
Булгакова [Summer Frosts, Winter Bathings: Aspects of St.
Nicholas’ Discourse in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Poetics]
Authors: Yevgeny Yablokov
Pages: 153 - 173
Abstract: The article analyzes one of the aspects of the mythological layer of Bulgakov’s works — the system of motifs related to the image of St. Nicholas — Russia’s most venerated saint. Out of two incarnations of Nikolai Ugodnik, Bulgakov is primarily interested in Nikola Zimnii: there are virtually no allusions to Nikola Veshnii (Summer) in his prose (this is also true for the writings taking place in summer: “The Fatal Eggs,” Flight, The White Guard, etc.). References to St. Nicholas intertwine with allusions to two Russian Emperors, Nicholas I and Nicholas II (see: “The Khan Fire,” Alexander Pushkin, Batum, etc). As St. Nicholas is venerated as a patron saint of sea travelers, it is not surprising that in Bulgakov’s works the connotations revealed are supplemented by water motifs — with water appearing in various aggregate states (in the form of snow, for example). Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Mikhail Bulgakov (1991—1940), St. Nicholas of Mira (270—343), Mythopoetics, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.07
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Прогулка с Шаляпиным: К «американской
биографии» А. Ветлугина [A Walk with Chaliapine: From
A. Vetlugin’s “American Years”]
Authors: Irina Belobrovtseva, Andrei Ustinov
Pages: 174 - 190
Abstract: In this article, we make an attempt to bring together our previous work on the “American years” of A. Vetlugin (Vladimir Ryndziun, 1897—1953), one of the most successful bilingual lesser-known writers of his generation. We republish his essay “Only Five Short Blocks,” which originally appeared in 1941 in the Reader’s Digest magazine under nom de plume “Frederick van Ryn,” and also provide the annotated translation of the original text. This allows us to reconstruct some obscure facts of A. Vetlugin’s life story, and to give an example of his peculiar style that had won him unconditional popularity in Russian émigré press, and later in American journalism, once “Frederick Van Ryn” became a recognized writer for some authoritative magazines and newspapers. Keywords: 20th-Century Russian and American Literature, Vladimir Ryndzyun (A. Vetlugin / Voldemar Ryndzune / Voldemar Ryndzune Vetluguin / Frederick van Ryn, 1897—1953), “Only Five Short Blocks” (1941), Feodor Chaliapine (1873—1938), Life Story, Russian Emigration, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.08
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- «А здесь я никому не нужен»:
Послевоенные годы Николая Зарецкого в
Праге [“And Here, No One Needs Me”: Nikolai Zaretsky’s Post-War
Years in Prague]
Authors: Fedor Poljakov
Pages: 191 - 217
Abstract: In his article, Prof. Fedor Poljakov of the University of Vienna focuses on the last years a Russian émigré painter, graphic artist and art collector Nikolai Zaretsky spent in the Socialist Czechoslovakia before escaping to Paris in 1950. It also contains an overview of Zaretsky’s pre-war exhibitions in Prague and tells the story of his major unfinished project — an illustrated book Risunki Russkikh Pisatelei (Russian Writers’ Drawings).
KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian and East-European History, Nikolai Zaretsky (1876—1959), Russian Writers’ Drawings (unpublished), Life Story, Russian Emigration, Microhistory.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.09
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- «Смерть Анны Андреевны Ахматовой —
великая потеря» (Из писем Льва Аренса
Григорию Петникову) [“Anna Akhmatova’s Death is a
Great Loss”: From Lev Arens’ Letters to Grigori Petnikov]
Authors: Polina Poberezkina
Pages: 218 - 226
Abstract: This article, completed during Dr. Polina Poberezkina’s stay in Estonia, examines several accounts of Anna Akhmatova’s last years and the poet’s funeral. It is centered around some letters of Lev Arens to Grigori Petnikov from the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Arts (Kyiv, Ukraine) supplemented by letters from Anna Garf and Natalia Briukhanenko to the same addressee.Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Anna Akhmatova (1889—1966), Lev Arens (1890—1967), Grigori Petnikov (1894—1971), Correspondence, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.10
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Из Именного указателя к «Записным
книжкам» Ахматовой: Джон Китс [From an Index to
Anna Akhmatova’s Notebooks: John Keats]
Authors: Roman Timenchik
Pages: 227 - 244
Abstract: This is a yet another installment in the series of Roman Timenchik’s annotations to Anna Akhmatova’s _Notebooks_ (see also four previous volumes of Slavica Revalensia — from 2018 to 2021). This particular installment examines Akhmatova’s appreciation of John Keats: the poet she mentioned in _Notebooks_ as the source of the epigraph to the cycle “Shipovnik tsvetet” (“The Rosehip Blossoms”), and also a poet she read extensively while learning English in Tashkent. The article proves that this learning experience left echoes in several of Akhmatova’s poems of the corresponding period, and also examines Akhmatova’s interest and appreciation of Keats vis-à-vis the background of the British poet’s reception by some of her contemporaries.Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Anna Akhmatova (1889—1966), _Notebooks_ (1958—1966), John Keats (1795—1821), Annotations, History of Literature.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.11
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- «Не делать не в ее характере» (Новые
материалы к биографии В. И. Икскуль фон
Гилленбанд) [“She’s Not Accustomed to Staying Inactive”:
New Materials Concerning the Life Story of Varvara Uexküll von
Gyllenband]
Authors: Marina Salman
Pages: 247 - 283
Abstract: The article is based on a series of memoirs dedicated to a pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg socialite baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (e.g., those of Ekaterina Letkova-Sultanova and Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik). It also makes public a previously unknown letter from Korney Chukovsky to Ekaterina Letkova-Sultanova concerning the living conditions of Uexküll von Gyllenband in 1921, and specifies the date of a sculptor Prince Sergei Ukhtomsky’s (1886—1921) arrest.Keywords: 20th-Century Russian History, Bolshevik Revolution, Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (1851—1928), Life Story, Russian Emigration, Soviet Terror.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.12
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Неизвестная заметка Ю. М. Лотмана [An Unknown
Juri Lotman’s Note]
Authors: Grigori Utgof
Pages: 335 - 343
Abstract: This is a prefaced publication of Juri Lotman’s brief note “Lenin in Mayakovsky’s Poems and Eisenstein’s Art,” which he wrote for his student in the Spring of 1970, and softly encouraged to publish under her name in Materialy XXV nauchnoi konferentsii molodykh filologov (Proceedings of 25th Junior Scholar Conference). KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893—1930), Sergei Eisenstein (1898—1948), Juri Lotman (1922—1993), Attribution, Textual Criticism.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.14
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- Подводная археология. Рец. на кн.: Бабак
Г., Дмитриев А. Атлантида советского
нацмодернизма: Формальный метод в
Украине (1920-е – начало 1930-х). М.: Новое
литературное обозрение, 2021. 784 с. [Underwater
Archaeology. Review of Atlantida sovetskogo natsmodernizma: Formal’nyi
metod v Ukraine (1920-e — nachalo 1930-kh), by Galina Babak and
Alexander Dmitriev]
Authors: Valerii Otiakovskii
Pages: 347 - 360
Abstract: This is a review of a recent book on the formal method’s reception in the Soviet Ukraine. Published in the autumn of 2021, just several months before the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the book by Galina Babak and Alexander Dmitriev is of particular interest in the light of the inevitable upcoming reconfiguration of Slavic Studies. It both transforms and redefines the well-established ideas concerning the history of Russian (i.e., Moscow-Leningrad) formalism, outlining a previously unknown — and a very original — line of its perception.KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Ukrainian Literary Theory and Criticism, Galina Babak (b. 1988), Alexander Dmitriev (b. 1973), Book Review.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.15
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- In memoriam: Magnus Ljunggren (October 25, 1942 – June 19, 2022)
Authors: Ben Hellman, Per-Arne Bodin
Pages: 363 - 366
Abstract: This is an obituary for Prof. Magnus Ljunggren of the University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs universitet), a distinguished expert in Russian Symbolism and Andrey Bely’s novel Petersburg, who was also an active supporter of the Russian dissident movement and an unequivocal critic of Vladimir Putin’s regime.KEYWORDS: Magnus Ljunggren (1942—2022), obituary.
PubDate: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.16
Issue No: Vol. 9 (2022)
- В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд. Из
пережитого в 1918 году. [Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband.
My Ordeals in 1918].
Authors: Nikita Okhotin, Marina Salman
Pages: 284 - 331
Abstract: This is the first publication in toto of a forgotten memoir “My Ordeals in 1918” by baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband’s. Originally written in 1919, three years prior to her fleeing Petrograd, the memoir tells the story of her three-week detention by the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka) in 1918.Keywords: 20th-Century Russian History, Bolshevik Revolution, Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (1851—1928), “My Ordeals in 1918” (1919), Life Story, Russian Emigration, Soviet Terror.
DOI: 10.22601/SR.2022.09.13
Issue No: Vol. 9
