From Lyubov Gurevich’s Memoirs About the Journal ‘Severny Vestnik’. Part One

Abstract

The journal “Severny Vestnik” (1891 –1898), around which relatively young Petersburg writers — A. Volynsky, N. Minsky, D. Merezhkovsky and Z. Gippius, F. Sologub — were grouped in the last years of the 19th century, was of exceptional importance for the early stage of Russian Symbolism. The publication presents new archival materials on the history of the journal: an article “Symbolism of the 1890s and the journal 'Severny Vestnik'” by L.Ya. Gurevich, prepared for an unpublished collection of articles “Russian Symbolism” edited by N.K. Gudzii and read in the form of a report at a meeting of the Literary Subsection of the State Academy of Arts, as well as the minutes of the meeting dated May 14, 1926 with the discussion of this report. An addition to L. Gurevich’s article is her notes (1897 –1898), which record the real and biographical context of the publication of “Severny Vestnik” from the moment the journal passed into her hands until it was closed, as well as her plan for reorganizing the journal. These materials will be presented in the second part of the publication. Documents introduced into scientific circulation allow expanding the range of sources for studying the history of “Severny Vestnik” and early Russian Symbolism.

Keywords

• “severny vestnik”
• lyubov gurevich
• early russian symbolism
• gakhn
• archival materials