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Vol. 115: Family Chronicles in the Letters & Diaries of Tatyana Gippius (1906–1908)

  • ISSN: 0130-3627
  • ISBN: 978-5-9208-0751-9
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/LN.0130-3627-2025-115
  • EDN: https://elibrary.ru/TRNBCP
  • For Citation: Literary Heritage. Vol. 115: Family Chronicles in the Letters & Diaries of Tatyana Gippius (1906–1908) / сomp., text prep., introd. and comm. by M.M. Pavlova; editor-in-chief M.L. Spivak. — Moscow: IWL RAS, 2024. — 896 p. –– (Literary Heritage; vol. 115).

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  • Published: 14.11.2024
  • Abstract:

    For the first time, the volume of “Literary Heritage” publishes in full the letters-diaries of T.N. Gippius (1877–1957) to his sister Z.N. Gippius, D.S. Merezhkovsky and D.V. Filosofov during the years of their stay in the first emigration in Paris (1906–1908). Letters-diaries are among the most important epistolary monuments of the beginning of the century, being a unique source for studying the phenomenon of the Merezhkovsky Church and Christian modernism in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. An extensive epistolary array (one-sided, with a few exceptions) contains comprehensive information about the history, everyday and esoteric life of the neo-Christian community of the Merezhkovskys, which included sisters T.N. and N.N. Gippius, A.V. Kartashev, V.V. Kuznetsov, S.P. Remizova-Dovgello (E.P. Ivanov, Andrei Bely and others joined them), as well as valuable evidence of the events of the literary, artistic, theatrical, religious, social and political life of the capital—a kind of Petersburg cultural chronicle of 1906–1908, about the moods of the elite and the inner circle of the Merezhkovskys. The main array is supplemented by the later letters-diaries of T.N. Gippius (1910–1913) and the correspondence of members of the community to the Merezhkovskys for the same period, also kept in the Amherst archive.

    The published epistolary is accompanied by detailed comments and indexes of historical-literary, real and textual character. The volume is illustrated with reproductions of portraits, icon painting, book and magazine graphics by T.N. Gippius and portraits of persons mentioned in the letters.
  • Keywords: T.N. Gippius, Z.N. Gippius, N.N. Gippius, A.V. Kartashev, V.V. Kuznetsov, D.S. Merezhkovsky, D.V. Filosofov, history of Russian literature and social thought, Russian symbolism, Christian modernism, history of the Russian Orthodox church, The First Russian revolution.
  • Author 1: Pavlova Margarita M. 
  • About the Author:

    Pavlova Margarita M. — DSc in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova Emb., 4, 1999034, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-6113

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  • Author 2: Spivak Monika L. 
  • About the Author:

    Spivak Monika L. — DSc in Philology, Head of the “Literary Heritage” Department, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya st., 25 a, bld. 1, 121069, Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-9780

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  • Author 3: Serkov Andrey I.
  • About the Author:

    Serkov Andrey I. — PhD in History, Senior Researcher at the “Literary Heritage” Department, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya st., 25 а, bld. 1, 121069, Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-0020

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  • Author 4: Lvov Konstantin V.
  • About the Author:

    Lvov Konstantin V. — PhD in History, Senior Researcher at the “Literary Heritage” Department, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya st., 25 а, bld. 1, 121069, Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6165-4349

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