DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-250-264

УДК / UDK: 821.161.1.0
Issue:

2022 №23

Author: Gleb A. Morev
About the author:

Gleb A. Morev — independent researcher, Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract:

Based on previously unused materials, the article examines the literary relations between Osip Mandelstam and Marietta Shaginyan and demonstrates the closeness of their socio-cultural positions since the mid-1920s. The author explains why Mandelstam has chosen Shaginyan as the addressee of his letter asking for assistance in releasing B. Kuzin in 1933. Also the article establishes a possible reflection of Mandelstam's reading of Shaginyan's “Diaries” in his later poems.

Keywords: Osip Mandelstam, Journey to Armenia, Marietta Shaginyan's “Diaries,” literary life.
For citation:

Morev, G.A. “On the Description of Mandelstam’s Socio-Cultural Situation in the 1920s–1930s (Osip Mandelstam and Marietta Shaginyan).” Literaturnyi fakt, no. 21 (23), 2022, pp. 250–264. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-23-250-264 

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