Who is “R-n”: about one of the addressees of A.A. Blok's reviews of poets (one hundred years after their first publication by P.N. Medvedev)

Author: korolevaNV / Date: 17-12-2023 /
Publication Title: 
Who is “R-n”: about one of the addressees of A.A. Blok's reviews of poets (one hundred years after their first publication by P.N. Medvedev)
Publication author(s): 
N.V. Loshchinskaya
Abstract: 

The article examines the circumstances associated with the use of “cryptonyms” in the publication of A.A. Blok's resolutions on poets, carried out by P.N. Medvedev in 1923.The surname of the paleontologist and writer A.N. Ryabinin, one of the applicants for joining the Petrograd branch of the All–Russian Union of Poets, is revealed. For the first time, the full handwritten text of the collective document stored in the RO IRLI with the resolutions of the members of the Admissions Committee (A.A. Blok, M.L. Lozinsky, N.S. Gumilev, M.A. Kuzmin) about his book of poems “After the Thunderstorm” (1918) is introduced into scientific circulation. The emphasis is placed on the aesthetic principles of Blok's evaluation of the reviewed poems. The characteristics of scientific, literary and social activities of A.N. Ryabinin are compared with Block's ideas about the creative potential of the Russian scientific and technical intelligentsia and its role in the transformation of Russia. The positive reaction of A.M. Remizov to the work by A.N. Ryabinin is analyzed, aspects of their possible creative contacts are outlined.

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Collected Works

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6. <Otzyvy chlenov Priemnoy komissii Petrogradskogo otdeleniya Soyuza poetov na knigu stikhov A.N. Ryabinina «Posle grozy» (1918). 1920> [<Reviews of the members of the Admission Committee of the Petrograd branch of the Union of Poets on the book of poems by A.N. Ryabinin “After the thunderstorm” (1918). 1920>], in Manuscripts Dept. of IRLI. F. 370. (raw fund). 1 l.

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10. Ryabinin, A.N. Iskopaemye l′vy Urala i Povolzh′ya [Fossil lions of the Urals and the Volga region]. Petrograd: [b. i.], 1919. 24 p.

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(Articles from Scientific Journals)

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(Articles from Proceedings and Collections of Research Papers)

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(Electronic Resources)

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Key words: 
cryptonym, attribution, symbolism, Petrograd branch of the All–Russian Union of Poets, geology, paleontology, the idea of the revival of Russia
2023. Issue 4 (80)
The DOI index: 
10.17588/2076-9210.2023.4.161-178
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