Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2016-1-2-245-290 Articles Bulgarin and Others. 1. Bulgarin’s Recollections of the Writers (from “Severnaya Pchela”) Reitblat Abram I. editor@litfact.ru 2016 F. Bulgarin memoirs literary biography Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 F.V. Bulgarin in his voluminous “Memoirs” (1846–1849) didn’t come to the period of his own literary and editing activity; however the republished fragments of his recollections –forgotten feuilletons from “Severnaya Pchela” contain information on the Russian writers of the first half of the XIXth century, whom he knew very well. He gives the details and corrections to the biographical publications about them, characterizes their creative work. In the sketches published Bulgarin recollects writers and journalists he knew – Osip Senkovsky, Alexander Izmailov, Anton Del’vig, Nikolay Yazykov, Pavel Katenin. 1. Boratynskii E.A. Poln. sobr. soch. i pisem [Complete Works and Letters]. Moscow, Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury Publ., 2012, t. 3, ch. 1. 609 p. (In Russ.) 2. Vatsuro V.E. S.D.P. Iz istorii literaturnogo byta pushkinskoi pory [S.D.P. From the history of the literary life of Pushkin’s time]. Moscow, Kniga Publ., 1989. 416 p. (In Russ.) 3. Vidok Figliarin: Pis’ma i agenturnye zapiski F.V. Bulgarina v III otdelenie [Vidocq Figlyarin: Letters and undercover notes FV Bulgarin in Third Office], izd. podgot. A.I. Reitblat. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 1998. 703 p. (In Russ.) 4. Del’vig A.A. Sochineniia [Works], izd. podgot. V.E. Vatsuro. Leningrad, Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1986. 472 p. (In Russ.) 5. Karatygin P. Zapiski [Notes]. Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1970. 352 p. (In Russ.) 6. Katenin P.A. Andromakha: Tragediia v 5 d., v stikhakh. Saint-Petersburg, 1827. (In Russ.) 7. Reitblat A.I. Senkovskii O.I. Russkie pisateli. 1800–1917. Biografich. slovar’ [Russian writers. 1800–1917. Biographical Dictionary], t. 5, Moscow, Bol’shaia rossiiskaia entsiklopediia Publ., 2007, pp. 572–580. (In Russ.) 8. Savel’ev P. O zhizni i trudakh O.I. Senkovskogo [On the life and works of O. Senkovsky]. Senkovskii O.I. Sobr. soch. [Works]. Saint-Petersburg, 1858. T. 1, pp. XI–CXII. (In Russ.) 9. Senkovskaia A.A. Osip Ivanovich Senkovskii (Baron Brambeus): Biograficheskie zapiski ego zheny [Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky (Baron Brambeus): Biographical notes of his wife]. Saint-Petersburg, tip. Imperatorskoi Akademii nauk Publ., 1858. 276 p. (In Russ.) 10. Timofeev L.V. V krugu druzei i muz. Dom A.N. Olenina [In a circle of friends and muses. House of A.N. Olenin]. Leningrad, Lenizdat Publ., 1983. 288 p. (In Russ.)