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L. Leningrad M. Moscow Abbreviations RAI Rimskii arkhiva Ivanova (Rome archive of Ivanov) SPb. St. Petersburg WCA Wadham College, Oxford, archive 8
INTRODUCTION Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet, classical scholar and leading theoretician of religious Symbolism, is rightly regarded as one of the most cultured and erudite ‘Russian Europeans’ of the Silver Age. And yet, although he had an impressive command of a wide range of languages and cultures, his links with England were not as well developed as they were, for example, with France, Germany, or Italy. To some extent this difference can be explained by biographical factors. Ivanov spent only one extended period of time living in England, amounting to some eight months between October 1899 and May 1900. At first he stayed in London, renting a flat near the British Museum with his second wife, Lidiya Zinov'eva-Annibal, her three children from her first marriage and their two young daughters, including the newborn Elenushka. This was not an easy period in the couple's lives. Lidiya had only recently obtained a divorce and been able to marry Ivanov; she was now anxious to conceal the whereabouts of her children from her first husband. In November Elenushka suddenly fell ill and died at the age of just over ten weeks; she was buried at a cemetery in Norwood. Although Ivanov continued his work on ancient Greek religion in the library of the British Museum and wrote some remarkable poetry during his stay with Lidiya at Tintagel, Cornwall in April and May 1900, he did not establish any significant links with contemporary English cultural circles. In fact, the only English person who seems to have made a substantial impression on him was Mr J.L. Paton, the kindly headmaster of University College School, who lent him an uncensored English translation of Tolstoi's Resurrection. 1 Ivanov's relative lack of involvement with English culture was not, however, just 1 Lidiya Zinov’eva-Annibal's eldest son attended Mr Paton’s school. For a general account of this period in Ivanov’s life, based on archival documents, see Grigorii Kruzhkov, ‘“My – dvukh tenei skorbyashchaya 9
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Dimitrii, who also omit all referen
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all a great personality in contact
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ight now it’s impossible to deter
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covering several pages; 16 distichs
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to the task of translation. A key t
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connection advanced by Ivanov and p
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you, poet, so much sympathy, compre
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mutans carmina in aes raucum’) in
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conventional morality. These aspect
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Bowra's interpretation and admired
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members of a common humanist tradit
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details of his meetings with Akhmat
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of Svet Vechernii back to Oxford, t
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he was clearly anxious to define in
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the way in which his generation of
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έστίν. 79 This Christian versi
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These are not just empty truisms. I
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Bowra were discovered in Wadham Col
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[To C. M. Bowra, Oxford high-priest
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prospere vigeant! 12 Iam ante quinq
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Dear Sir, 3 Ivanov - Bowra 1 Octobe
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Praestantissime poeta, 28 4 Bowra -
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5 Ivanov - Bowra 9 December 1946 33
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survival. 38 I am glad that you hav
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implies. 47 How hard it is, for ins
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Dear Professor Ivanov, 7 Bowra - Iv
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With all good wishes to your family
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compatriotes non-initiés. 64 Vos t
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Dear Professor Ivanov, 10 Bowra - I
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your book. 81 I have also written t
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His subsequent support for the publ
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Works by V.I. Ivanov 1 SELECT BIBLI
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Ivanov, Vyacheslav, Dionis i pradio
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Berlin and Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verl
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Bowra, C.M., Early Greek Elegists,
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London: Duckworth, 1974, 48-85. Aub
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Vena 1998, ed. Sergei Averintsev an
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Konovalov, S., ed., Vyacheslav I. I
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Atalan
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INDEX OF NAMES AND WORKS 137
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