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Title of Article

AT THE GATES OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD: ABOUT ONE PAGE FROM THE BIOGRAPHY OF BORIS MIKHAILOVICH EIKHENBAUM


Issue
2
Date
2019

Section
ARCHIVE

Article type
UDC
82
Pages
128-138
Keywords
Б.М. Эйхенбаум, Нижний Новгород, НГУ, curriculum vitae, В.Л. Комарович, Ю.А. Никольский, Б.А. Садовской, М.А. Яхонтова, B.M. Eikhenbaum, Nizhny Novgorod, NSU, curriculum vitae, V.L. Komarovich, Yu.A. Nikolsky, B.A. Sadovsky, M.A. Yakhontova


Authors
Izumrudov Yuriy Aleksandrovich
Natsionalnyy issledovatelskiy Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstven-nyy universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
The article is devoted to a previously unknown episode of the biography of Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum related to the unfulfilled plans of the scientist to come to Nizhny Novgorod to teach at the state university founded in 1918. Relying on the descriptive, biographical, and sociological research methods, working with archival documents and memoirs, the author confirms the internal unity of the literary community joined by a common passion for the chosen branch of knowledge, an interest in the exchange of experience. This paper introduces into scientific discourse documents from the Fund No. 377 of the Central Archive of the Nizhny Novgorod Region (CANN). These are materials of the correspondence of Boris Mikhailovich with university administration regarding his future job: a statement dated September 23, 1918 from Privatdozent Eikhenbaum addressed to the Rector of NSU "of the intent to run for a professor of history of Russian literature", resume (Curriculum vitae) of the scientist, order of the Rector of the NSU D. Sinitsyn on the admission of Eikhenbaum "to the position of Professor at the Department of Russian Language and History of Russian Literature". It follows from further correspondence that, for objective reasons, Eikhenbaum was unable to come to Nizhny and take up official duties, which is why he was "fired" as of March 10, 1920. It is also noted in the article that for some time classes at NSU were delivered by V.L. Komarovich and Yu.A. Nikolsky, colleagues of Eikhenbaum at the Petrograd University and the Pushkin seminar of Professor S.A. Vengerov. The article also features a fragment of the correspondence of Eikhenbaum with B.A. Sadovsky and the materials of the memoirs of M.A. Yakhontova, where B.M. Eikhenbaum is also mentioned. The authors conclude 137 that B.M. Eikhenbaum as a professor at NSU could become an important part of the cultural life of Nizhny Novgorod, however, the fact that the scientist refused to move does not diminish the importance of face-to-face and distance interaction between him and Nizhny Novgorod literary scholars and writers.

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