Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2016-1-2-215-226 Articles The Paradox of Bibris V.A. Koshelev editor@litfact.ru 2016 Semyon Bobrov poetic exaltation hard drinking literary reputation Konstantin Batyushkov Pyotr Vyazemsky Alexander Pushkin Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 Semyon Bobrov’s image of a poet-Archaist was shaped by epigrams, including the famous Batyushkov’s distich. This distich characterized with complex and ambivalent meaning is considered against the background of the literary polemics contra Bobrov that took place in 1810-ies. 1. Batiushkov K.N. Sochineniia [Works]. V 2 t., Pod red. V.A. Kosheleva i A.L. Zorina. Moscow, Khudozhestvennaia literatura Publ., 1989. (In Russ) 2. Viazemskii P.A. Stikhotvoreniia [Poems]. Vstupit. st. L.Ia. Ginzburg; sost., podgot. teksta i primech. K.A. Kumpan. Leningrad, Sovetskii pisatel’ Publ., 1986. 542 p. (In Russ) 3. Gessen S. Knigoizdatel’ Aleksandr Pushkin [Book publisher Alexander Pushkin]. Leningrad, Academia Publ., 1930. 148 p. (In Russ) 4. Zajonc L.O. “Bobrov S.S.” Russkie pisateli. 1800–1917. Biograficheskii slovar’ [Russian writers. 1800–1917. Biographical dictionary]. Moscow, Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopedia Publ., 1989, t. 1, pp. 292–293. (In Russ) 5. Zajonc L.O. “’Maska’ Bibrusa” [Bibrus “Mask”] Uchenye zapiski Tartuskogo gos. un-ta [Scientific notes of Tartu State Univ.]. Vyp. 683 (Trudy po russkoj i slavjanskoj filologii). 1986, pp. 32–37. (In Russ) 6. Zajonc L.O. “‘P’janstvujushhie’ arhaisty” [“Ebrious” archaists]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Review], 1996, no 21, pp. 220–235. (In Russ) 7. L[erner N.] “Bobrov S.S.” Entsiklopedicheskii slovar’ Brokgauz i Efron. Biografii [Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. Biographies]. Moscow, Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopedia Publ., 1992, t. 2, pp.324–325. (In Russ) 8. Literaturnyj arhiv: Materialy po istorii russkoj literatury i obshhestvennoj mysli [Literary Archive: Articles on the history of Russian literature and social thought]. Saint-Petersburg, Nauka Publ., 1994. 398 p. (In Russ) 9. Korovin V.L. Semen Sergeevich Bobrov: Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo [Semyon Sergeyevich Bobrov: Life and Work]. Moscow, Academia Publ., 2004. 320 p. (In Russ) 10. Proskurin O.A. Literaturnye skandaly pushkinskoj epohi [Literary scandals of Pushkin’s era] Moscow, OGI Publ., 2000. 328 p. (In Russ)