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Reminiscences about Blok [Vospominaniya o Bloke] by V. Verigina
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-4-260-273
Abstract
The article tells the story of a memoir about A. Blok written by V. Verigina (1882–1974) and includes a commented version of the notes for her public report ‘Blok and Komissarzhevskaya’s Theatre’ [‘Blok i Teatr Komissarzhevskoy’], delivered on 4 December 1924. The notes add details to the reminiscences of the actress who knew Blok and friends of L. Blok and N. Volokhova. The notes also reveal the date when Verigina began working on the memoirs. Unlike her published texts, the speaker notes contain a direct reference to the poet’s traits of a ‘great man’ (according to Carlyle), and put more emphasis on Blok’s relationship with N. Volokhova, Komissarzhevskaya’s Theatre, and V. Meierhold in the years 1906–1908. The manuscript was preserved in the archive of the Soviet literary critic Evgenia Fyodorovna Knipovich (1898–1988), who belonged to Blok’s inner circle in 1918–1921, and later supervised research at the Association of Blok Studies (under the auspices of the State Academy of Artistic Studies, GAKhN) in 1923–1929, at the time when Verigina presented her report to the Association.
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B. N. RomanovRussian Federation
Boris N. Romanov - literary historian, translator, independent researcher
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Romanov B.N. Reminiscences about Blok [Vospominaniya o Bloke] by V. Verigina. Voprosy literatury. 2019;(4):260-273. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-4-260-273
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