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Two letters to Rome: Oleg Okhapkin to Evgeny Vagin
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2025-2-155-181
Abstract
The poet Oleg Okhapkin (1944–2008) and the journalist and literary critic Evgeny Vagin (1938–2009) belong to the so-called Leningrad samizdat. Two recently discovered letters from Okhapkin are addressed to his friend Vagin and contain the former’s comprehensive comments on his symbolic calendar of Russian culture, which follows N. Danilevsky’s and K. Leontiev’s ideas.
According to this calendar, Okhapkin and his contemporaries belong to the Bronze Age of Russian poetry, which explains several recurrent patterns in the unfolding cultural process.
About the Authors
T. I. Kovalkova
Web-portal ‘Russian Culture’
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tatiana I. Kovalkova - literary critic, prose writer.
10 Bolshoy Gnezdnikovsky Ln., Moscow, 125375
A. G. Korsunskaya
Military Institute of Physical Culture
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anastasia G. Korsunskaya - Candidate of Philology.
63 Sampsonievsky Av., St. Petersburg, 194044
M. G. Talalay
Russian Federation
Mikhail G. Talalay - Candidate of History, independent researcher.
10 Bolshoy Gnezdnikovsky Ln., Moscow, 125375
References
1. Korsunskaya, A. (2022). I. A. Brodsky in O. A. Okhapkin’s lyrical poems. Mir Nauki, Kultury, Obrazovaniya, 4, pp. 324-326. (In Russ.)
2. Okhapkin, O. (1978). Poems: ‘Blok’s vision’ [‘Videnie Bloka’]. ‘All week...’ [‘Vsyu nedelyu…’]. ‘A sunny day’ [‘Solnechniy denyok’]. ‘A high purpose’ [‘Vysokaya tsel’]. Zvezda, 7, p. 80. (In Russ.)
3. Personal archive of E. A. Vagin. Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen. FSO 01-030.039. Bremen, Germany. (In Russ.)
4. Personal archive of O. A. Okhapkin. St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. (In Russ.)
5. Valieva, Y. (2023). On Oleg Okhapkin’s symbolic calendar. In: T. Kovalkova, ed., Okhapkin Readings. Anthology No. 4. Poetry and science: Stoicism, creativity, memory. St. Petersburg: <s. n.,> pp. 96-119. (In Russ.)
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Kovalkova T.I., Korsunskaya A.G., Talalay M.G. Two letters to Rome: Oleg Okhapkin to Evgeny Vagin. Voprosy literatury. 2025;(2):155-181. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2025-2-155-181
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