Непрошеный пришелец: Михаил Кузмин. От Серебряного века к неофициальной культуре

M. : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025.

Pakhomova A.

For many years Mikhail Kuzmin has remained a well-studied author, but the post-revolutionary period of his life and work has hardly ever come to the attention of researchers. Alexandra Pakhomova's book seeks to fill the existing gap, covering the period of the poet's life from the mid-1900s to 1936 and addressing previously unexamined works, events and stories (in particular, the writer's diary is widely quoted). The author focuses on the dynamics and vicissitudes of Kuzmin's literary reputation, tracing the poet's reception from the first works of the 1900s to the beginning of academic Kuzmin studies in the 1990s. The chosen approach allows us to consider Kuzmin not as a self-contained emblem of the Silver Age, but as a significant figure of twentieth-century Russian literature, involved in the creation of Soviet uncensored culture. Alexandra Pakhomova PhD, literary historian, anthropologist, senior lecturer at the Department of Philology, National Research University Higher School of Economics (SPb).

Keywords: Серебряный век, неофициальная культура, литературная репутация, Mikhail Kuzmin, Михаил Кузмин, Russian literature of Silver Age, literary reputation, soviet nonofficial culture