Komarovich V.L. Lectures on F.M. Dostoevsky read in 1921–1922 in Nizhny Novgorod University

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Author: Olga A. Bogdanova
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DSc in Philology, Leading researcher of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS. Lives in Moscow.

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Issue: 2018 no. 1
Department: ARCHIVE
Pages: 184-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2018-1-184-235
UDK: 821.161.1
Keywords: V.L. Komarovich, F.M. Dostoevsky, biography, work, T.A. Kryukova, lectures, Nizhny Novgorod University, historical-philological faculty, the 1920-ies.
Abstract: This is the first publication of a course of lectures about the life and works of F.M. Dostoevsky read in 1921–1922 in Nizhny Novgorod State University by V.L. Komarovich, an outstanding scholar and textual critic of the first half of the 20th century. The text is based on the typescript the editor of this material received in 1991 from D.S. Likhachev (1906–1999); the typescript was produced in the 1960s from handwritten notes of lectures made by T.A. Kryukova (1904–1978), a student at Nizhny Novgorod University in 1921–1922. First and foremost, the lectures are interesting because they serve as a short introduction to V.L. Komarovich’s sketch of Dostoevsky’s entire oeuvre, which the scholar had never transformed into a book. In addition, they have obvious historical and cultural value as a sample of the art of teaching in the Russian province of the early 1920s. Finally, the history of their preservation and publication attempts is linked with the lives of T.A. Kryukova and D.S. Likhachev, outstanding scholars the last century and close friends and disciples of V.L. Komarovich. Published lectures are part of the forthcoming publication of V.L. Komarovich “He’s All Aspiration”: Articles and Research on F.M. Dostoevsky.