A.N. Tolstoy’s Diaries as Sources for Novella The Adventures of Nevzorov, or Ibikus
The sources of A.N. Tolstoy’s novella The Adventures of Nevzorov, or Ibikus are the writer’s diaries, which contain notes on the events of 1917–1919. Comparing them with the text allows us to judge how the writer used this material in his work on The Adventures of Nevzorov. Relying on the notes made...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Studia Litterarum |
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| Online Access: | https://studlit.ru/images/2025-10-2/13_Belikova.pdf |
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| Summary: | The sources of A.N. Tolstoy’s novella The Adventures of Nevzorov, or Ibikus are the writer’s diaries, which contain notes on the events of 1917–1919. Comparing them with the text allows us to judge how the writer used this material in his work on The Adventures of Nevzorov. Relying on the notes made during the October Revolution and the evacuation from Odessa in April 1919, Tolstoy recreated the chronicle of these events in the story and conveyed the mood of those around him. Also we can single out the notes that formed the basis of a particular plot of the story, that is, the struggle between white and red counterintelligence in Odessa in 1918–1919. The study of diary entries helped to identify the real prototypes of the story. Thus, the prototype of the Moscow artist and anarchist Count Chamborin was George da Lafar, and the “dangerous revolutionary” Burstein, sailing from Odessa to Constantinople, was P.N. Rutenberg. Along with the entries in the diary, there are documents of the epoch. Thus, among the sheets are pasted a newspaper clipping about the Futurists’ Christmas tree in December 1917 and the order of the Rostov mayor K.M. Grekov. Both documents appear in The Adventures of Nevzorov. |
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| ISSN: | 2500-4247 2541-8564 |