“Thinking About You, About Our Accidental ʽWritten Meeting’...”: Letters from P.A. Radimov to A.A. Izmailov (1915–1917)
The present study is devoted to the publication of letters from P.A. Radimov (1887−1967), a peasant poet, a famous realist artist, one of the last Wanderers (Peredvizhnik), and the first chairman of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, to the A.A. Izmailov (1873–1921), famous journali...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Access: | https://litfact.ru/images/2025-36/4_Alexandrova.pdf |
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| Summary: | The present study is devoted to the publication of letters from P.A. Radimov (1887−1967), a peasant poet, a famous realist artist, one of the last Wanderers (Peredvizhnik), and the first chairman of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, to the A.A. Izmailov (1873–1921), famous journalist and literary critic. At the time of the writers’ epistolary acquaintance, Izmailov was an accomplished journalist, a popular parodist, and head of the literary-critical department of Birzhevye Vedomosti. Radimov was a successful young artist, performing with the Wanderers (Peredvizhnik), and an aspiring writer with two poetry collections behind him, Field Psalms (Polevye psalmy, Kazan, 1912) and Earthly Robe (Zemnaia riza, Kazan, 1914; 1915 — 2nd ed.), favorably met with criticism. The letters cover turning points in the lives of both correspondents. For Radimov, this was the beginning of collaboration in thick journals (Russkoe Bogatstvo, Ezhemesiachnyi Zhurnal), in the large-circulation newspaper Birzhevye Vedomosti, and the development of a career as an Itinerant artist. During this period, Izmailov was on the verge of a radical career change: he was soon to take the post of editor-in-chief of the popular newspaper Petrogradsky Listok. Radimov’s letters are published from autographs from the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-8297 2542-2421 |