The Little-Known Pages of Russian Journalism Abroad: “Rus-sian Corners” in France in the Essays of Konstantin Parchevskiy Cover Image

Малоизвестные страницы публицистики Русского Зарубежья: «Русские уголки» Франции в очерках Константина Парчевского
The Little-Known Pages of Russian Journalism Abroad: “Rus-sian Corners” in France in the Essays of Konstantin Parchevskiy

Author(s): Joanna Mianowska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Parchevskiy; Russian corners; geographical space; geopoetics; histo-rical aspect; the essayist’s interlocutors; factual material; the complexity of emigrant life; geographical principle

Summary/Abstract: The sketches of K. Parchevskiy, a little-known emigrant publicist of the first wave of Russian emigration in the twentieth century, entitled Across the Russian Corners [По русским углам], were published in the Paris newspaper Latest News from August 9, 1936 to July 4, 1937, and came out as a book in 2002. Each of them is unique (they are over 30). They fit into the profile of poetics, which has as its object of analysis the ima-ges of geographical space in individual creative works. Poetics has become an academic science as a branch of cultural and literary studies. Parchevskiy’s essays are composed on a geographical principle but are also of interest with regard to statistics. The factual and informative value these essays convey allows perceiving the fate of the Russian diaspora in different parts of France from a new and fresh point of view. The analysed essays reflect the natural reality as well as the historical and creative structure of that period.

  • Issue Year: 1/2020
  • Issue No: XXV
  • Page Range: 21-34
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian