biography

The article analyzes the book by B.K Zaitsev Chekhov (1954) as a novelized biography, a ‘life story’. The author’s concept and composition of the book, consisting of 15 chapters with titles, 54 subchapters / fragments, are given a special emphasis; the artistic meanings and originality of the narrative of a complete biography are considered.

The article examines the reading of a child at the beginning of the twentieth century in connection with the question of its influence on the world of childhood in the work of A. Platonov. The study of the pre-revolutionary reading of children is of historical and literary interest, it can help in identifying specific texts from the early reading of the writer, in defining traditions that influenced the world of childhood in Platonov’s prose and shaped it, the genesis of children’s images, and the search for allusions.

A modern review of the life and work of NG is offered. Chernyshevsky with the involvement of little-studied materials.

The article is devoted to an episode from the creative history of AA's memoirs. Feta, published and commented on a draft outline of the original plan of Fetov's memories. The study is based on handwritten sources, first introduced into scientific circulation.

The article considers the techniques of translating a biographical text into the language of the cinema which have been used by the director A. Khrzhanovsky in the film A Room and a Half. Visual and textual quotes from the poet’s essays, interviews and poems have been analyzed, as well as the contemporaries’ reminiscences.

The article offers an analysis of literary critics’ attitude towards Evelyn Waugh’s biography «Ronald Knox» as well as reasons for it being unsuccessful among its contemporaries.

The article is dedicated to the biography and the reception history of the works of the famous in the 1920-1930 german biographer E. Ludwig by the public and the critics.