Nikolai Klyuev: Time and Text, Place and Poet

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329 INTRodUCTIoN 1. Among the most important collections of scholarly materials, testifying to the growth of a “Klyuev industry,” are S. I. Subbotin, ed., Nikolai Klyuev: Issledovaniya i materialy, Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, Institut Mirovoi Literatury im. A. M. Gor’kogo (Moscow, 1997); A. P. Kazarkin, ed., Nikolai Klyuev: Obraz mira i sud’ba: Materialy Vserossiiskoi konferentsii “Nikolai Klyuev: Natsional’nyi obraz mira i sud’ba naslediya” (Tomsk, 2000); A. Kazarkin and V. domansky, eds., Nikolai Klyuev: Obraz mira i sud’ba, vol. 2 (Tomsk, 2005); E. Markova, ed., XXI Vek na puti k Klyuevu: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Olonetskie stranitsy zhizni i tvorchestva: Nikolai Klyuev i problemy etnopoetiki ,” posvyashchennoi 120-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya velikogo russkogo poeta Nikolaya Klyueva 21–25 sentyabrya 2004 g., Karel’skii Nauchnyi tsentr, Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk (Petrozavodsk, 2006); and the three volumes published to date of Klyuevskii sbornik, ed. L. Yatskevich (Vologda, 1999–2002). 2. For a survey of the treatment of Klyuev in the Anglophone world, see Maikl Meikin (Michael Makin), “Nikolai Klyuev v angloyazychnom mire,” in Petryaevskie chteniya ’01: Tezisy, doklady, ed. V. N. Kolupaeva and A. L. Rashkovskii (Kirov-na-Vyatke, 2001), 72–80; full version in Sever 4–5–6 (2002): 230– 35; revised and expanded version on the website Kluevoslov: http://kluev.org.ua/ collegium/m_engl.htm (accessed September 2008). CHAPTER oNE 1. For a detailed and engaging discussion of these issues, see Svetlana Boym, Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Cambridge , Mass., and London, 1991). 2. Ivanov-Razumnik (Razumnik Vasil’evich Ivanov), Pisatel’skie sud’by (New York, 1951), 37. Konstantin Azadovsky traces it to a story told by Anatolii Yar-Kravchenko (K. Azadovsky, Nikolai Klyuev: Put’ poeta [Leningrad, 1990], 317; K. Azadovsky, Zhizn’ Nikolaya Klyueva: Dokumenta’noe povestvovanie [St. Petersburg, 2002], 309). Notes 330 Notes to Pages 13–14 3. Especially significant are the recurrence of the Ivanov-Razumnik story in the two major Western editions of Klyuev, and in the first public commentary on the poet in the Soviet Union since the 1930s: Boris Filippov, “Nikolai Klyuev: Materialy k biografii,” in Nikolai Klyuev, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 2 vols. (New York, 1954), 1:106; the story was repeated in the enlarged version of that essay in Nikolai Klyuev, Sochineniya, ed. G. Struve and B. Filippov, introductory articles by B. Filippov, G. McVay, H. Stammler, and E. Rais, 2 vols. (Munich, 1969), 2:151–52; and in V. orlov, “Nikolai Klyuev,” Literaturnaya Rossiya , November 25, 1966, 17. Among the story’s more recent occurrences was Stanislav Kunyaev, “Zhizn’ — okean mnogozvonnyi,” preface to Nikolai Klyuev, Stikhotvoreniya i poemy, ed. Stanislav Kunyaev (Archangel, 1986), 6. 4. Konstantin Azadovsky, “Lichnost’ i sud’ba Nikolaya Klyueva,” Neva 12 (1988): 182; Nadezhda Khristoforova-Sadomova, “Vospominaniya o poete Klyueve Nikolae Aleskeeviche,” in Nikolai Klyuev, “ot poezii ‘izbyanogo kosmosa ’ k pis’mam iz Sibiri (Pis’ma Nikolaya Klyueva k N. F. KhristoforovoiSadomovoi iz Tomska),” ed. with introduction and commentary by Aleksandr Mikhailov, Nash sovremennik 5 (1992): 156. 5. Among the many publications dealing with Klyuev’s last years are Azadovsky, Put’ poeta, 292–320; Azadovsky, Zhizn’ Nikolaya Klyueva, 296–320; Klyuev, “ot poezii ‘izbyanogo kosmosa’ k pis’mam iz Sibiri”; Lev Pichurin, Poslednie dni Nikolaya Klyueva (Tomsk, 1995); Nikolai Klyuev, “Nikolai Klyuev v poslednie gody zhizni: Pis’ma i dokumenty (Po materialam semeinogo arkhiva),” ed. with introduction and commentary by Georgii Klychkov and Sergei Subbotin , Novyi mir 8 (1988): 165–201; Yurii Khardikov, “‘Krov’ moya svyazuet dve epokhi’: Ssylka i gibel’ Nikolaya Klyueva,” Nash sovremennik 12 (1989): 179–89; Vitaly Shentalinsky, Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime, trans. Robert Crowfoot, ed. Robert Conquest (New York, 1996; published in Britain as The KGB’s Literary Archive [London, 1996]; first published in French as La parole ressuscité: Dans les archives littéraires du K.G.B. [Paris, 1993]; in Russian as Raby svobody: V literaturnykh arkhivakh KGB [Moscow , 1995]), 197–209; “dokumental’nye materialy” (the Tomsk NKVd file), in Nikolai Klyuev: Obraz mira i sud’ba: Materialy Vserossiiskoi konferentsii “Nikolai Klyuev: Natsional’nyi obraz mira i sud’ba naslediya,” ed. Kazarkin, 211–23; and Valerii domansky, Narym: Klyuev v Sibiri: Poema i ocherk (Tomsk, 2003). 6. A. Gruntov, “Materialy k biografii N. A. Klyueva,” Russkaya literatura 1 (1973): 118–19. This article marks the beginning of the scholarly study of Klyuev’s biography. Gruntov’s work (some of it unpublished) has been used by all subsequent students of the poet. 7. Vasilii Firsov, “Suzhdeniya i fakty (o rannei biografii Nikolaya Klyueva...