“Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)

For the first time, the article presents the correspondence between S.A. Vengerov and K.I. Chukovsky. It allows us to trace the literary relations between the famous bibliographer, literary historian, and publisher, on the one hand, and the young literary critic, on the other. We reconstruct unknown...

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Main Author: Svetlana V. Fedotova
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Published: Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2025-06-01
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description For the first time, the article presents the correspondence between S.A. Vengerov and K.I. Chukovsky. It allows us to trace the literary relations between the famous bibliographer, literary historian, and publisher, on the one hand, and the young literary critic, on the other. We reconstruct unknown stories related to Ven- gerov’s attempts to involve Chukovsky in writing literary portraits of V.Ya. Brusov and Z.N. Gippius for the large-scale publishing project “Russian Literature of the 20th Century. 1890–1910” (ed. by Prof. S.A. Vengerov). The article puts forward a hypothesis that Chukovsky’s undated reply to the СBD (Critical and Biographical Dictionary...) questionnaire can be chronologically correlated with the correspondents’ last letters.
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spelling doaj-art-d5fdfc2d49ce4b629ec01a758b1a7db12025-08-20T03:15:36ZengRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureЛитературный факт2541-82972542-24212025-06-01236559110.22455/2541-8297-2025-36-55-91“Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)Svetlana V. Fedotova0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9991-4966А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of SciencesFor the first time, the article presents the correspondence between S.A. Vengerov and K.I. Chukovsky. It allows us to trace the literary relations between the famous bibliographer, literary historian, and publisher, on the one hand, and the young literary critic, on the other. We reconstruct unknown stories related to Ven- gerov’s attempts to involve Chukovsky in writing literary portraits of V.Ya. Brusov and Z.N. Gippius for the large-scale publishing project “Russian Literature of the 20th Century. 1890–1910” (ed. by Prof. S.A. Vengerov). The article puts forward a hypothesis that Chukovsky’s undated reply to the СBD (Critical and Biographical Dictionary...) questionnaire can be chronologically correlated with the correspondents’ last letters.https://litfact.ru/images/2025-36/3_Fedotova.pdfs.a. vengerovk.i. chukovskycorrespondencev.ya. brusovz.n. gippiusliterary portraitscbd questionnairepublishing projects
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“Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)
Литературный факт
s.a. vengerov
k.i. chukovsky
correspondence
v.ya. brusov
z.n. gippius
literary portraits
cbd questionnaire
publishing projects
title “Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)
title_full “Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)
title_fullStr “Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)
title_full_unstemmed “Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)
title_short “Zeus the Benefactor” and “the Born Gamin”: S.A. Vengerov’s Correspondence with K.I. Chukovsky (1907–1914)
title_sort zeus the benefactor and the born gamin s a vengerov s correspondence with k i chukovsky 1907 1914
topic s.a. vengerov
k.i. chukovsky
correspondence
v.ya. brusov
z.n. gippius
literary portraits
cbd questionnaire
publishing projects
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