Gogol’s obituaries in the Czech press

For citation: Sartakov E. Gogol’s obituaries in the Czech press // Mediascope. 2023.1. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2782

© Egor V. Sartakov

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of History of Russian Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, (Moscow, Russia), esartak@mail.ru

Abstract

The article examines the Gogol’s obituaries published in 1852 in the Czech press. It is identified that the responses to the death of the Russian writer in the Czech press, which were published in large numbers and contained significant details about his life and death, became so important that they served as a reminiscent background for Gogol’s obituaries in Serbia. The source for the Czech obituaries were the letters of Gogol’s Moscow friend N.  Berg to the Prague Slavist Václav Hanka, published in the Pražské noviny («Prague newspaper»), as well as Bulgarin’s articles in ‘Severnaya pchela’ (“Northern Bee”).

Key words: Gogol, Czech press, Václav Hanka, Nikolai Berg, Bulgarin

Notes

Anon (1852) Nikolaj Vasiljevič Gogol. Pražské noviny. No 98. (In Czech)

Anon (1852) Никола Василевићъ Гоголь. Новине србске. No 63. (In Serbian)

Anon (1852). Vytečny spisovatel rusky. Pražské noviny. No 73. (In Czech)

Anon (1852). Žukovskу a Gogol. Vesna. No 29. (In Czech)

Berg N. (1852) Dopis Hanke z 19. dubna 1852. Pražské noviny. No 123. (In Czech)

Berg N. (1852) Nad hrobem Gogolovym. Príloha k Lumíru. No 8. (In Czech)

Berg N. (1852) Nad grobom Gogolya [Over the Gogol’s grave]. Moskvityanin. No 8. (In Russian)

Č. Str. (1852) Posledni doby N. Gogola a pozüstalé spisy jeho. Príloha k Lumíru. No 11, 165, 166. (In Czech)

F. B.  <Faddey Bulgarin> (1852) Zhurnal'naya vsyakaya vsyachina [Magazine whatnot]. Severnaya pchela. No 93. (In Russian)

F. B. <Faddey Bulgarin> (1847) Zhurnal'naya vsyakaya vsyachina [Magazine whatnot]. Severnaya pchela. No 8. (In Russian)

F.B. <Faddey Bulgarin> (1846) Zhurnal'naya vsyakaya vsyachina [Magazine whatnot]. Severnaya pchela. No 27. (In Russian)

F.B. <Faddey Bulgarin> (1848) Zhurnal'naya vsyakaya vsyachina [Magazine whatnot]. Severnaya pchela. No 190. (In Russian)

F.B. <Faddey Bulgarin> (1848) Zhurnal'naya vsyakaya vsyachina [Magazine whatnot]. Severnaya pchela. No 268. (In Russian)

F.B. <Faddey Bulgarin> (1852) Zhurnal'naya vsyakaya vsyachina [Magazine whatnot]. Severnaya pchela. No 87. (In Russian)

Frantsev V.A. (1905) Pis'ma k Vyacheslavu Ganke iz slavyanskikh zemel' [Letters to Václav Hanka from the Slavic lands]. Materialy dlya istorii slavyanskoy filologii [Materials for the history of Slavic philology]. Warsaw: Tipografiya Varshavskogo uchebnogo okruga. (In Russian)

Kulish P.A. (2003) Zapiski o zhizni Nikolaya Vasil'evicha Gogolya, sostavlennye iz vospominaniy ego druzey i znakomykh i iz ego sobstvennykh pisem [Notes on the life of Nikolai Gogol, compiled of the memoirs of his friends and acquaintances, as well as of his own letters]. Moscow: IMLI RAN Publ. (In Russian)

Otzyv provintsiala na stat'yu o Gogole [Feedback from a provincial on an article about Gogol] (1852) Moskovskie vedomosti. No 76. (In Russian)

T…v <I.S. Turgenev> (1852) Pis'mo iz Peterburga [A letter from Petersburg]. Moskovskie vedomosti. No 32. (In Russian)

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