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EN Goals and Objectives of the Serial Scientific Edition Literary Heritage
The Literary Heritage series was founded in 1931 on the initiative of I.S. Zilberstein.
Literary Heritage is the oldest Russian academic publication dedicated to the history of Russian literature, social thought, and culture from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Literary Heritage carries out the first scientific publications of unpublished materials. Tens of thousands of artistic and journalistic works, letters, diaries, memoirs, biographical documents, archival reviews, bibliographies covering all stages and aspects of the development of Russian literature and culture, as well as its multilateral relations with world literature and culture, are published on its pages. Literary Heritage has no analogues in the world of philological science and is recognized as an exemplary philological and source studies publication.
The idea and honor of founding the Literary Heritage belongs to the historian of literature and art, collector I.S. Silberstein, who developed the publication plan in the first half of 1931. For almost 60 years, his colleague and permanent co-editor of the volumes of the series was the literary critic S.A. Makashin.
For nine and a half decades, the editorial board has prepared and published volumes devoted to the biography and work of V.G. Belinsky, Andrei Bely, A.A. Blok, V.Ya. Bryusov (including a complete edition of his correspondence with P.P. Pertsov), I.A. Bunin, P.A. Vyazemsky (including a volume including his correspondence with P.I. Bartenev), A.I. Herzen, Z.N. and T.N. Gippius, M. Gorky, A.S. Griboyedov, F.M. Dostoevsky, M.Y. Lermontov, N.S. Leskov, V.V. Mayakovsky, N.A. Nekrasov, A.S. Pushkin, L.N. Tolstoy, F.I. Tyutcheva, A.A. Feta, A.P. Chekhov, the documented history of the magazine "Russian Wealth" by N.K. Mikhailovsky and V.G. Korolenko, and others. In addition, in 2012-2021, four books of the reference volume "Literary Heritage for 80 Years" were published, which includes a complete list of the contents of the volumes and a bibliography of publications on the "Literary Heritage" (1931-2011), an annotated index of authors, historical materials, as well as a consolidated index of names and an index of illustrations.
A total of 115 volumes have been published so far (in the 95th year of the series' existence) (in 113 books, taking into account the significant number of double volumes in the pre-war period and a number of monographic volumes in several books subsequently), with the last one at the end of 2024. The total volume of volumes is about 70,000 pages; the number of illustrations is not less than 12,000. The volumes of the Literary Legacy were almost always the result of many years of joint work by several organizations (scientific institutions, archives, libraries in Russia, Europe, and the USA) and large editorial and author teams.
Since 2017, in addition to the "large series" of volumes, the Library of Literary Heritage series, conceived by Silberstein in the first half of the 1930s, has been published, which is a "small series" of satellite publications, which currently has 14 issues, including commented scientific publications of diaries, two-sided correspondence, unpublished original and translated literary monuments (V.V. Nabokov, D.S. Merezhkovsky, A.P. Ladinsky, G.N. Kuznetsova, N.N. Berberova, V.Ya. Bryusov, N.O. Lerner, issues devoted to the history of the "Society of Free Aesthetics" and the publication of unpublished translations of Shakespeare's works from the archive of the editorial office of the publishing house "Academia"). Several books have also been published in this series, which are a collective offering to the blessed memory of departed colleagues (a two-volume work by N.V. Kotrelev, a collection of memory and a collection of selected articles and publications by A.Y. Galushkin). The anniversary of the academic series in 2022 was marked by the publication of a collection of materials on its history – "In the service of one cause ...": A literary legacy in the memoirs and correspondence of I.S. Zilberstein and S.A. Makashin.
On March 18, 1960, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences accepted the proposal to transfer the publication to the IMLI named after A.M. Gorky of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1991 to the present, Literary Heritage has been the official print organ and serial publication of the Gorky Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The publication is aimed primarily at readers interested in the history of Russian literature, its little-known pages, as well as researchers, literary scholars, experts in the field of literary sources, textual criticism and bibliography.
Types of publications
The manuscripts of the first (not published) or exhaustive (compared to previous publications) scientific commentated editions of archival materials on the history of Russian literature, social thought and culture of the XVIII–XX centuries as a whole, as well as on the biography of their individual representatives, archival and bibliographic reviews, etc. are accepted for publication.
The publication is registered in the Russian Science Citation Index (RISC), the first hundred volumes are placed in the database in full-text versions (identifier 8812): http://elibrary.ru/title_about.asp?id=8812
NEB code 9999-0760
ISSN 0130-3627
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