Игорь Дедков, Кострома: Сентябрь 1957 г.
Igor Dedkov, Kostroma: September 1957

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this article is the very initial period of the creative biography of Igor Alexandrovich Dedkov (1934—1994), when he, after graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov, was assigned to Kostroma, to the editorial office of the regional newspaper Severnaya Pravda. Work in Kostroma stretched out for more than thirty years, during which Igor Aleksandrovich from a literary employee of a provincial publication turned into a well-known and respected literary critic in the USSR, and then in the Russian Federation. This article examines the least studied early stage of his life and work, when a former graduate, finding himself far from home, parents, friends, familiar atmosphere, found himself in a strange (at that time) provincial town. When writing this work, the author used both well-known sources and still unpublished materials from this personal literary critic, transferred by his widow, after the death of her husband, to the Interregional Scientific and Educational Center. I. A. Dedkov at Kostroma State University. Of particular value among them are the letters of Igor Alexandrovich to his future wife T. F. Salnikova (Dedkova) in which he described in sufficient detail his first impressions of Kostroma and the beginning of his journalistic activities, as well as a previously unpublished small typewritten manuscript of memoirs called “September fiftyseventh”. Fragments from the letters of I. A. Dedkov is only partially used in the article, and the manuscript of memoirs (essays) is published in full. Taken together, these documents allow us to significantly expand our understanding of the Soviet intelligentsia and the Russian intelligentsia, everyday life and the provincial history of the country in the second half of the 1950s.

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