Monkey Scriptures and Mysterious Chiganashki: An Episode from Alexey Remizov’s Life Story Cover Image

Обезьяньи письмена и загадочные «чиганашки» (об одном анекдоте из биографии А. М. Ремизова)
Monkey Scriptures and Mysterious Chiganashki: An Episode from Alexey Remizov’s Life Story

Author(s): Sergey Dotsenko
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature; Alexey Remizov (1877—1957); Biography; History of Literature;

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on an unusual episode in Alexei Remizov’s life, when shortly after the Revolution his apartment was searched, and visitors mistook a text written in Glagolitic script for a secret code. This story survived in three versions: Maksim Gorky’s account and two versions by Remizov himself. The comparison of these three versions helps to reveal the genesis of a literary anecdote—the genre that played a particularly important role in Remizov’s biography.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 48-64
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Russian
Toggle Accessibility Mode