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Literature in the life of Evgeny Viktorovich Tarle
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-6-13-49
Abstract
A renowned historian, Evgeny Tarle (1874–1955) was famously preoccupied with literature. His ‘eternal companions’ included Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and L. Tolstoy. Another notable fact is his ambiguous attitude to contemporary Russian and Western literature. Tarle was a keen reader of Pascal, Schopenhauer, Vladimir Solovyov, and Rozanov, among others. His literary and particularly epistolary legacy features a few exceptionally perceptive and brilliant characteristics of writers and philosophers, many of which are published here for the first time. Tarle maintained a wide circle of literary acquaintances. He was a close friend of the authors Tatiana Bogdanovich, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, and Evgeny Lann – recipients of his most interesting letters. Tarle was also well acquainted with several literary scholars and critics, including S. Vengerov, P. Shchegolev, A. Gornfeld, K. Chukovsky, B. Eichenbaum, Y. Oksman, and others. Conveying shrewd observations on literature, Tarle’s comments on the subject also provide insights into the scholar’s own personality and work.
About the Author
Boris S. Kaganovich
St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of History
7 Petrozavodskaya St., St. Petersburg, 197110, Russia
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Kaganovich B.S. Literature in the life of Evgeny Viktorovich Tarle. Voprosy literatury. 2019;(6):13-49. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-6-13-49
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