Н.В. Недоброво и Л.А. Недоброво в переписке с В.И. Ивановым и М.М. Замятиной (1912-1914)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the correspondence that was between Vyacheslav Ivanov, Nikolai Nedobrovo, Lyubov Nedobrovo and Maria Zamyatnina in 1912-1914. A special place is given to the letters of Nikolay Nedobrovo to Ivanov. These letters report about crisis of the Poetic Academy (Poeticheskaya Akademiya or Obschestvo Revniteley Hudozhestvennogo Slova), about Nedobrovo’s work on his poems, about Nedobrovo relationship with the poets Yuri Verkhovsky and Alexei Skaldin, about Vyacheslav Ivanov’s visit to St. Petersburg in 1914. The correspondence has not been fully preserved, but published fragments reveal new details in the literary life in St. Petersburg in the 1910s.The full texts of the letters Nedobrovo to Ivanov and the letters of his wife are published for the first time.