Неизвестная пьеса Е.Л. Шварца Шура Климова в историческом и литературном контексте

Studi Slavistici. 2025. Т. XXII. № 2. С. 255–276.

Grafova M. A., Воскобоева Е. В.

This article presents the publication and commentary of a previously unknown, unpublished,
and never-staged play by the prominent Russian playwright Evgenij Schwartz, Šura Klimova. Recently
discovered in a Moscow archive, the play is based on a debate that was widely discussed in the USSR
at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s concerning career choice during the period of industrialization.
The letters to the magazine “Pioner” that initiated this debate were written by a teenage girl, who
also serves as the protagonist of the play. Her name is Šura Klimova; she comes from a poor family
and dreams of becoming a wealthy film star. Both in reality and in the dramatic plot, she is criticized
for her “petty-bourgeois” aspirations. The article examines the historical context of the play’s creation
at a pivotal moment in Soviet history and situates it within Schwartz’s oeuvre. Although Šura
Klimova represents one of his earliest dramatic experiments, it already displays the techniques and
stylistic devices characteristic of Schwartz’s later, more famous plays.

Keywords: НЭП, выбор профессии, советская идеология, драматургия, communist ideology, American cinema, межвоенный период, советский театр, career choice, the new economic policy, немое кино, early Soviet history, “Pioneer”, "Пионер", Soviet youth, classic Hollywood cinema, классический Голливуд, Е.Шварц, history of theater, мещанство, Schwartz