Из редакционной переписки «Времени» и «Эпохи»: братья Достоевские, А. В. Зименко, И. А.  Салов
From Editorial Correspondence Between “Vremya” and “Epokha”: The Brothers Dostoevskys, Ardalion Zimenko, Iliya Salov

Summary/Abstract: Letters are the texts in which an aesthetic aspect is not so important to the reader as the cognitive one. These letters need critical analysis and meaningful review, the identification of names and dates, the revelation and interpretation of the events described in them. The article studies a letter of one of F. M. Dostoevsky’s correspondents, A. V. Zimenko. On December 19 1864 he wrote to the writer acting as the editor of the Journal “Epokha” with a request to pay him the rest of the fees for the short novel “Butuzka”, published in the journal “Vremya” (“The Time”) (1863, No. 2 and 3). Dostoevsky entered into correspondence with him. But the real author of “Butuzka” was writer I. A. Salov. The article presents archival and memoir evidence of professional life of Zimenko in “Russkiy Vestnik” (“The Russian Bulletin”) and other journals, reconstructs the history of relationships of Zimenko and Salov. The appeal of Zimenko to Dostoevsky in the given letter should be considered as the request of the mediator Salov. The question of eventual meetings of Salov with the brothers Dostoevskys needs studying. The correspondence between the Dostoevskys and Zimenko reveals the editorial practice in the journals “Vremya” and “Epokha”, allows us to find out some circumstances of the publication of Salov’s work “Butuzka” and the role of his friend and mediator Zimenko in this process who was a gifted poet, secretary of several well-known periodicals, M. N. Katkov’s assistant in 1856–1858, 1861–1863.

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