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From “The Mystery of Tyutchev” to “Two Mysteries of Russian Poetry”: Creative history and textual key

A.A. Kholikov
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UDC 821.161.1-1+801.7
DOI 10.20339/PhS.4-24.139
 

Kholikov Alexey A.,

Doctor of Philology,

Professor of the Philological Faculty

Shenzhen MSU-BIT University;

Professor of the Theory of Literature Department

Lomonosov Moscow State University;

Leading Scientific Researcher

Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

e-mail: aakholikov@gmail.com
 

The article for the first time reconstructs the history of the creation of the text by D.S. Merezhkovsky ‘The Mystery of Tyutchev’ from the lecture and the first newspaper publication to the publication as part of the study ‘Two Secrets of Russian Poetry: Nekrasov and Tyutchev’ (1915). We use publications collected from pre-revolutionary periodicals and mostly not introduced into scientific circulation (including newspaper chronicles), as well as documents from archival repositories of Russia (RO IRL RAS) and the USA (The Temira Pachmuss and Vladimir Zlobin Collection at the University of Illinois Archives[1]). A textual comparison of printed, typewritten and handwritten materials is carried out; the differences discovered during their comparative analysis are commented on. The study of the author’s editing at the stylistic, compositional and content levels showed that Merezhkovsky was attentive to the preparation of a separate publication, updating the socio-political sound of the text. In conclusion, there is a prospect for further conversation about ‘The Secret of Tyutchev’ from the point of view of its reception by contemporaries and in the aspect of understanding the writer’s creative laboratory in order to clarify scientific ideas about the principles of his work with sources.

Keywords: textual criticism, literary criticism, journalism, F.I. Tyutchev, D.S. Merezhkovsky, Russian intelligentsia

 

[1] The author is grateful to O.A. Korostelev (1959-2020) and E.A. Andrushchenko for providing copies of part of the archival documents from the American repository, and M.M. Pavlova for sending an inventory of the entire collection.
 

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