Briusov and the healing art: Northern nature in "na granitakh"

Russian Review

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 119-131

  Grossman, Joan Delaney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 60949298612     PISSN: 00360341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9434.00266     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. In his The North in Russian Romantic Literature (Amsterdam-Atlanta, 1996), Otto Boele discusses the role of the North in redefining Russia's national identity in the eighteenth-century (see esp. chap. 2)
2. Valerii Briusov, "Na Saime," in his Sobranie sochinenii v 7-kh tomakh (Moscow, 1973-75), 1:378-82. In the first edition of Stephanos, "Na Saime" was in fact a "sub-cycle" within the book's opening cycle "Vecherovye pesni."
3. For a treatment of this episode as an example of the specialized Symbolist understanding of love see Joan Delaney Grossman, "Valery Briusov and Nina Petrovskaia: Clashing Models of Life in Art," in Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, ed. Irina Paperno and Joan Delaney Grossman (Stanford, 1994)
4. Vestnik Evropy, 1909, no. 10:846
5. V. K. Staniukovich, "Vospominaniia o V. Ia. Briusove," Valerii Briusov. Literaturnoe nasledstvo 85 (Moscow, 1976), 470
6. Briusov, Sobranie 1:99-100. Translations throughout are mine
7. Valerii Briusov, Dnevniki 1891-1910 (1927; reprint ed. Letchworth, 1972), 35
8. N. Ashukin, "Iz proshlogo: Iz arkhiva Valeriia Briusova," Novyi mir (December 1926): 118
9. Valerii Briusov i ego korrespondenty. Literaturnoe nasledstvo 98 (Moscow, 1991-94), 1:518
10. Briusov, Sobranie 6:193
11. Pis'ma V. Ia. Briusova k P. P. Pertsovu (Moscow, 1927), 14
12. Much later he recalled the immense favor Solov'ev's criticism had done "these small beginning poets, and most of all me, making them known to a wide circle of readers." Among them "the name 'Valerii Briusov' suddenly became ... almost a household word." See Briusov, "Avtobiografiia," in Russkaia literatura XX veka. 1890-1910, vol. 1, ed. S. A. Vengerov (Moscow, 1914), 109
13. The reference is to Solov'ev's 1884 poem "L'Onda da mar' divisa" (Vladimir Solov'ev, Stikhotvoreniia i shutochnye p'esy [Leningrad, 1974], 74)
14. Pis'ma Pertsovu, 38
15. Briusov, Dnevniki, 89-90
16. Valerii Briusov, Sredi stikhov 1894-1924, ed. N. A. Bogomolov and N. V. Kotrelev (Moscow, 1990), 58
17. The article, as reprinted here, first appeared in Russkii arkhiv, 1900, no. 8:546-54
18. It was later extensively reworked for Dalekie i blizkie (Moscow, 1912)
19. Briusov, Sredi stikhov, 55
20. For further discussion of this debate see Joan Delaney Grossman, "Briusov's Defense of Poetry and the Crisis of Symbolism,"
21. Tomas Venclova, "Viacheslav Ivanov and the Crisit of Russian Symbolism,"
22. and Irene Masing-Delic, "The Symbolist Crisis Revisited: Blok's View," all in Issues in Russian Literature before 1997, ed. J. Douglas Clayton (Columbus, OH, 1989), 196-227
23. Vesy, 1904, no. 1:3-21
24. Literaturnoe nasledstvo 85:789
25. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva (RGALI), f. 376, op. 1, ed. khr. 4
26. Briusov's letters from Sweden, at least those pertaining to his spiritual condition, project an image of total solitude - that despite Ioanna Matveevna's presence throughout. Perhaps, in fact, whatever his condition as a private person, as a poet he was indeed alone
27. RGALI, f. 376, op. 1, ed. khr. 4
28. In a letter of 27 June 1906 to Nina Petrovskaia, after an unflattering description of Visby, Briusov wrote: "There is just one thing left to do: run to the sea, right to the sea, onto the shoreline rock, and there, under the fierce sun... lie and gaze into the boundless" (Literaturnoe nasledstvo 85:792)
29. Ivan Konevskoi, Stikhi i proza (Moscow, 1904), 92-93
30. Letter to Anna Shesterkina in Literaturnoe nasledstvo 85:624
31. "'Iuvenilia' Briusova," Sofiia, 1914, no. 2:66