Sergei Durylin: Self-Sufficiency

14 hrs. 56 min.

Language Russian

Author Victoria Toropova

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

For the reader is presented the first biography of a major scholar—an expert in literature studies, theatre studies, and theatre history, an ethnographer and archaeologist, a poet and prose writer, a religious thinker— the author of an invaluable biography of the artist M. V. Nesterov in the ZhZL series, of fascinating research on Gogol, Lermontov, Pushkin, A. Ostrovsky, Yermolova, Goethe, and the memoir book “In My Own Corner” (only part of the published works is mentioned).

A bright representative of the Silver Age of Russian culture, until recently he remained in the shadow of his more famous contemporaries, even though he was at the center of the intellectual life of an age of revolutionary upheavals and wars that left their mark on his fate. The prose and poetry of Duryulin, some of his scholarly works—lying for decades in archives—only now reach the reader. In his country home in Bolshevo (now the site of a memorial museum) Sergiy Duryulin spiritually guided many prominent cultural figures of the Soviet era who came to visit him.

The book’s author, V. N. Toropov—recipient of the literary prize named after S. N. Duryulin—was friends with Irina Alekseevna Komissarova-Duryulina, Duryulin’s spiritual daughter and civil wife, whom he called his “guardian angel.” Irina Alekseevna’s stories and her notes formed priceless material which, along with archival documents, also helped the author create the biography of this remarkable person.