На берегах Голубой Лагуны. Константин Кузьминский и его Антология. Сборник исследований и материалов

Фото на передней обложке – Б. Смелов, на задней обложке – О. Корсунова

Editorial Board: Catherine Ciepiela Sergei Glebov Michael Kunichika Boris Wolfson

The Studies of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture, established in collaboration with Academic Studies Press, aspires to publish peer reviewed scholarly volumes of high quality that substantially draw upon the Centers holdings. The Center was founded in 1991 on the basis of a gift made to Amherst College by alumnus Thomas P. Whitney, class of 1937, a diplomat, journalist, translator, author and collector of Russian manuscripts, rare books, journals, newspapers and art for over thirty years. Whitney’s private collection is the core of Centers holdings, which continue to expand thanks to his generous endowment.

The Amherst Center for Russian Culture houses one of the most impressive private collections of rare Russian books and materials outside Russia. The collection represents the breadth and depth of Russian cultural achievement in modern times, primarily in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is particularly rich in materials concerning the cultural life of the Russian emigration, with hundreds of rare editions of Russian emigre poetry and journals from across the world; a number of Aleksey Remizov’s handmade albums and his papers; the archive of Novyi zhurnal; and the archives of major emigre figures such as Zinaida Gippius and Dmitry Merezhkovsky, and Zinaida and Dmitry Shakhovskoy. Later generations of emigre artists and scholars such as Yury Ivask, Roman Goul, and Vadim Kreid, also are well represented. The rare book collection features hand-made futurist books by Natalya Goncharova, Aleksey Kruchenykh, Ve-limir Khlebnikov and others. Soviet culture is represented by valuable arts periodicals; by the Alma Law archive, documenting the life of theater in the late Soviet era; and by collections of dissident and samizdat materials, such as the Grigorenko Family Papers. Konstantin Kuzminsky s complete literary archive, including the materials that went into the making of his landmark anthology, Golubaia laguna, allows for in-depth study of unofficial culture. This volume is dedicated to the legacy of Kuzminsky.

Scholars interested in exploring the full range of the collection are invited to visit the Center’s website: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/russian/acre

Редакционная коллегия: Борис Вольфсон Сергей Глебов Майкл Куничика Кэтрин Чипела

Труды Центра русской культуры Амхерстского колледжа (США), выходящие в сотрудничестве с издательством «Academic Studies Press», в своих научно подготовленных и рецензируемых изданиях знакомят читателя с архивным собранием Центра. Центр русской культуры был открыт в 1991 году на основе дара, преподнесенного колледжу Томасом Уитни выпускником Амхерста 1937 года – дипломатом, журналистом, переводчиком, писателем, на протяжении тридцати лет собиравшим ценнейшую коллекцию рукописей, редких книг, журналов, газет и произведений изобразительного искусства России и СССР. Частное собрание Томаса Уитни составляет ядро фондов Центра, которые продолжают пополняться из средств щедрого пожертвования Уитни.