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Uncovering P. Muratov’s traces in ‘Russian Berlin’. Bibliographic research into the publishing history
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2026-3-142-161
Abstract
The article gleans testimonies of Pavel Muratov’s emigrant days in 1920s Berlin (1922–1923), a city Gleb Struve called the ‘literary capital’ of the early 1920s Russian emigrant community. M. Böhmig describes Muratov’s circle of friends and literary connections, his role in several Berlin-based Russian cultural projects (the Writer’s Club, the Russian Scholarly Institute, and the House of Arts), as well as his collaborations with Andrey Bely’s literary almanac Epopeya and M. Gorky’s journal Beseda. The study offers an overview of Muratov’s output printed by the recently relocated Russian-language publishers Helikon and Izdatelstvo Z. I. Grzhebina in the years 1922–1923. The author devotes considerable attention to Muratov’s novel Egeria and its reception by the Russian émigré press, as well as Muratov’s studies of art history, including an essay on Cézanne’s life and work. Recognizing his talent and erudition, many of his reviewers nonetheless agreed that Muratov was a writer out of step with the times and outside the canon of Russian literary tradition.
About the Author
M. Böhmig
University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’
Italy
Italy
Michaela Böhmig, PhD in Philology
Via Duomo 219, Naples, 80138, Campania
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Böhmig M. Uncovering P. Muratov’s traces in ‘Russian Berlin’. Bibliographic research into the publishing history. Voprosy literatury. 2026;(3):142-161. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2026-3-142-161
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