Necropolis. Khodasevich V.F.

Vladislav Felicanovich Khodasevich (1886-1939) was not only a major and original poet, but also left behind an original historical and memoir heritage. In his memoirs, Khodasevich refuses to speculate, reconstruct, aesthetically deform. He writes that he himself saw and heard, trying to scrupulously restore the fabric of the surrendered time. And if inaccuracy creeps into the narrative, then this is nothing more than a rare uncharacteristic accident. At the same time, the memoirist in no case refuses generalizations, which almost always naturally grow from the fact or a number of facts.

It is the desire for documentaryism that distinguishes the memories of Khodasevich from the memoirs of some other modern poets. And its also important property is a sequence of judgments: speaking of the same people in different essays, he never contradicted to himself. In this publication, the book “Necropolis” first published in 1939 was presented in 1939 during the life of Vladislav Khodasevich. The essays about V. Bryusov and A. Bely, A. Blok and N. Gumilev, M. Gorky and F. Sologub.

the book is addressed to studying Russian literature of the first half of the 20th century, and writers, and writers, and A. Gumilev. Culturalists and interested circle of readers.