O.E. Mandelstam, A.I. Svirsky, I.V. Evdokimov, D.D. Blagoy at the Herzen House: 1922–1933 (From the comments on the “Fourth Prose” by O.E. Mandelstam: 1) “...a certain Mitka the Good”; 2) “...the Lyceum bastard...”; 3) “...permitted by the Bolsheviks for the benefit of science...”; 4) “...is guarding in a special museum...”; 5) “...the rope of the strangled SeryozhaYesenin”)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-47-93
Abstract
The work offers a fundamentally new approach to the analysis of “Fourth Prose” by O. Mandelstam, based on documents and materials introduced for the first time in scientific circulation, explaining a number of obscure facts that do not always coincide with the historical reality. In particular, the author analyzes an episode connected with the “rope of the strangled Seryozha Yesenin”, which in no way relates to the “Lyceum bastard Mitka Blagoy”; he also analyzes the historical reality in the relationship of O.E. Mandelstam with a circle of Sergei Yesenin. It is shown that Mitka Blagoy is a substitute of I. Evdokimov, close to Yesenin, who is connected in many ways with the circumstances of O.E. Mandelstam’s life as a person or writer. The author shows the role of A. Svirsky both in the history of perpetuating the memory of Sergei Yesenin, and in a number of domestic conflicts involving O.E. Mandelstam, reflected in the “Fourth Рrose”.
About the Author
L. F. Katsis
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Leonid F. Katsis, Dr. of Sci. (Philology), bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, Russia, 125993
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