The Newspaper Chronicle in the Letters of V. Khodasevich to N. Berberova

For citation: Zakryzhevskaja E.A. (2020) «Literaturnaja letopis'» v pis'mah V.F. Hodasevicha k N.N. Berberovoj [The Newspaper Chronicle in the Letters of V. Khodasevich to N. Berberova]. Mediaskop 2. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2624
DOI: 10.30547/mediascope.2.2020.8

© Elena A. Zakryzhevskaja

PhD student at the Chair of Literary and Art Criticism and Publicism, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), elenazakryzhevskaya@gmail.com

Abstract

In this article, we examine the letters of V. Khodasevich to N. Berberova. We hope to find information that enables us to try to attribute authorship to a number of their works, published under the pseudonym 'Gulliver', in the Russian Émigré newspaper Vozrozhdenie [Renaissance] between 1927 and 1939. We carefully put each mention of chronicle into biographical context of V. Khodasevich and N. Berberova. Our purpose is not to analyse the issues of chronicle but to collect reliable information about how they were written and published. The article gives the opportunity to see how the chronicle has been changing through the years. Though it focuses mainly on the authorship of a number of issues it also touches upon Soviet magazines and newspapers, that helped V. Khodasevich and N. Berberova to follow literary novelties, describes the writing process itself, particularities of editing and publishing of newspaper Vozrozhdenie, notes about the fee that was usually paid for the chronicle and etc.

Keywords: Nina Berberova, Vladislav Khodasevich, Russian emigration journalism, the ‘first wave’, newspaper ‘Vozrozhdenie’,

Notes

Aseev N. (1922) Po morju bumazhnomu [On the Paper Sea]. Krasnaja nov', no. 4, pp. 245–247.

Berberova N.N. (2015) Kursiv moj. Avtobiografija [The Italics Are Mine. Vintage]. Moscow: АСТ Publ., p. 362.

Berberova N. (1922) «O tom, chto vecherom moroznym...» [In That Frosty Evening…]. Ushkujniki. Peterburg, pp. 1‒2.

Gulliver (1932) Literaturnaja letopis' [Literary Chronicle]. Vozrozhdenie, July 21, no. 2606, p. 4; August 18, no. 2634, p. 44; September 15, no. 2662, p. 4;

Gulliver (1936) Literaturnaja letopis' [Literary Chronicle]. Vozrozhdenie, January 23, no. 3886, p. 4.

Hodasevich V. (2000, 2002) Kamer-fur'erskij zhurnal [Kammerfurier Journal]. Moscow: Ellis Lak Publ. p. 129.

Hodasevich V. (1927) Obez'jan'ja banda [Monkey Gang]. Vozrozhdenie, October 13, no. 863, pp. 3‒4.

Hodasevich V. (1923) Pojeticheskoe hozjajstvo Pushkina [Pushkin’s Poetic Establishment]. Beseda, no. 2, p. 185.

Hodasevich V. (1997) Sobranie sochinenij: v 4 t. Nekropol'. Vospominanija. Pis'ma [Collection of works: in 4 vol. Necropolis. Memories. Letters]. Moscow: Soglasie Publ., vol. 4, pp. 249, 250, 251, 269, 273, 274, 283, 284, 286, 287, 488, 490.

Levickij V. (1928) Bogema [Bohemia]. Vozrozhdeniе, September 10, no. 1196, p. 2.

Literaturnaja gazeta, 1930, May 26, no. 21 (58).

Malmstad Dzh. (2009) «Celuju Vashi lapki ‒ vse chetyre»: Pis'ma V.F. Hodasevicha k O.B. Margolinoj. Na rubezhe dvuh stoletij: Sbornik v chest' 60-letija Aleksandra Vasil'evicha Lavrova[‘I’m Kissing Your Little Paws – All the Four’: Letters of V. Khodasevich to O. Margolina. At the turn of the two centuries: Collection in the honor of Alexander Lavrov’s 60th anniversary]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., p. 383.

Miller-Budnickaja R. (1932) O «filosofii iskusstva» B. Pasternaka i R.-M. Ril'ke [About the ‘Philosophy of Art’ of B. Pasternak and R. Rilke]. Zvezda, no. 5, pp. 160‒168.

Pis'ma G.V. Adamovicha k Z.N. Gippius. 1925‒1931 [Letters of G. Adamovich to Z. Hippius]. In: Diaspora: novye materialy [Diaspore: New Materials]. Vol. 3. St. Petersburg: Feniks Publ., 2002, p. 508.

Pis'ma V. Hodasevicha k N. Berberovoj [Letters of V. Khodasevich to N. Berberova]. In: Minuvshee: Istoricheskij al'manah [Past: Historical Almanac]. Paris: Atheneum, 1988. Vol. 5. Pp. 228‒327.

Raskol'nikov F. (1932) Zabytoe pis'mo F.M. Dostoevskogo k moskovskim studentam [Forgotten Letter of F. Dostoevsky to Moscow Students]. Krasnaja nov', no. 4, p 149.

Snesareva-Kazakova N. (1928) Dva stihotvorenija [Two Poems]. Vozrozhdenie, April 5, no. 1038, p. 3.

Vinokurova I. (2014) «Kamer-fur'erskij zhurnal» Niny Berberovoj [‘Kammerfurier Journal’ of Nina Berberova]. Zvezda, no. 8, pp. 200‒214.

«Zhurnal'naja rabota i vprogolod' ne kormit»: N.N. Berberova i V.F. Hodasevich [‘Magazine Work Doesn`t Even Feed Us Half-Starved’: N. Berberova and V. Khodasevich]. In: O. Korostelev, M. Shruba (eds.) (2012) Iz arhiva redakcii [From the Editorial’s Archive]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., vol. 2, p. 315. 

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