«Не делать не в ее характере» (Новые материалы к биографии В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд)
“She’s Not Accustomed to Staying Inactive”: New Materials Concerning the Life Story of Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband
Author(s): Marina Grigorievna SalmanSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Social history, Russian Literature, History of Communism, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, History of Art, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: 20th-Century Russian History; Bolshevik Revolution; Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (1850—1928); Life Story; Russian Emigration; Soviet Terror;
Summary/Abstract: The article is based on a series of memoirs dedicated to a pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg socialite baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (e.g., those of Ekaterina Letkova-Sultanova and Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik). It also specifies the date of a sculptor Prince Sergei Ukhtomsky’s (1886—1921) arrest, and makes public a previously unknown letter from Korney Chukovsky concerning the living conditions of Uexküll von Gyllenband in 1921.
Journal: Slavica Revalensia
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 9
- Page Range: 247-283
- Page Count: 37
- Language: Russian