A Brief Thaw: The Bunins and the Merezhkovskys in 1929–1930 Between Two Stages of the “Nobel Race” (Based on Vera Bunina’s Diaries)
Abstrak
The diaries of V.N. Bunina represent important historical testimonies about the life of the Russian emigration. Bunina kept them throughout her life with remarkable regularity — in some years (for example, in 1929–1930), entries were made almost daily. This material is particularly valuable for studying the life of the Russian emigration in France during the 1920–1940s. To this day, the relationship between the Bunin and Merezhkovskii families has not been properly studied. The 1920–1930s are especially interesting, as this was the time of the “Nobel competition” between I.A. Bunin and D.S. Merezhkovskii. Despite warm relations in the early 1920s, by the mid-1920s the relationship between the families had cooled, and in 1929–1930 an unexpected rapprochement (“thaw”/ottepel) occurred, reflected in the correspondence between Z.N. Gippius and V.N. Bunina, as well as in Vera Nikolaevna’s diaries. This article examines this brief rapprochement and its biographical and literary contexts.
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Maksim S. Shchavlinskii
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