Vsevolod Ivanov. Correspondences from the Newspaper “Vperyod” (“Forward”) (August – September 1919)

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Vsevolod Ivanov. Correspondences
from the Newspaper “Vperyod” (“Forward”)
(August – September 1919)

E. A. Papkova, I. E. Loshchilov

A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, Moscow, Russian Federatio; Institute of Philology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Ключевые слова

Vsevolod Ivanov, Siberia, Siberian press of the Civil war, Kolchak, Vasily Yan, V. G. Yanchevetsky, journalism

Abstract

The article precedes the publication of 14 newly found correspondences of the classic of Russian literature of the 20 th century Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963). All of them were published
in August – September 1919 in the mobile front-line newspaper “Vperyod” and are connected
with the history of plots and stories of the writer about the Civil War in Siberia, first of all,
with his famous story “Armored Train 14-69”. The publication fills in the gap associated with
the incompleteness of the set of the newspaper “Vperyod” in the repositories of Moscow and
St. Petersburg. The gap was filled thanks to the newspaper fund of the Scientific Library
of Tomsk State University. The political and literary contexts of Ivanov’s work in the
newspaper “Vperyod” are recreated, his relationship with the editor of the newspaper
V. G. Yanchevetsky (1875–1954), known as the writer Vasily Yan, is described. An explanation of the changes in the views of the writer in 1919 is proposed. The poetics and genre of
the published correspondence is preliminary characterized.

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Bibliographic reference

E. A. Papkova, I. E. Loshchilov Vsevolod Ivanov. Correspondences
from the Newspaper “Vperyod” (“Forward”)
(August – September 1919) // Сюжетология и сюжетография. 2020. № 2. Pp. 7–38. DOI: 10.25205/2410-7883-2020-2-7-38.