Piotr Bitsilli and Vladimir Veidle

Abstract: The paper discusses the personal relationship of Piotr M. Bitsilli and Vladimir V. Veidle on the basis of their comments about each other in book reviews and in the letters of both of them addressed to other people. The article also analyzes the unpublished correspondence of the scholars from 1933 to 1937, kept in the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House (Saint Petersburg) and in the Bakhmeteff Archive (New York). The letters add new particulars to the creative biography of Bitsilli and Veidle; they confirm the general picture of a great intellectual proximity which arises on the basis of their published reciprocal assessments.

Keywords: Piotr Bitsilli, Vladimir Veidle, Russian emigration of the first wave, literary criticism, culture history.

Information about author: Manfred Schruba, DSc in Philology, Full Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Milan, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, Square S. Alessandro 1, 20123 Milan, Italy.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-2998

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For citation: Schruba, Manfred. “Piotr Bitsilli and Vladimir Veidle.” Emigrantica. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024. Issue 2: Piotr M. Bitsilli and the Humanities of the Russia Abroad, comp. M.A. Vasilieva, sci. ed. M.A. Vasilieva and A.V. Bakuntsev, ed. M.S. Shchavlinskii, D.V. Zaitsev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 188–202. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-2-188-202

REFERENCES

Birman, M.A. P.M. Bitsilli (1879–1953). Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo [P.M. Bitsilli (1879–1953). Life and Work]. Moscow, Vodolei Publ.,2018. 444 p. (In Russian)
Gerashko, L.V., and V.B. Kudriavtsev. “Fond professora P.M. Bitsilli v Ruko-pisnom otdele Pushkinskogo Doma” [“The Fund of Professor P.M. Bitsilli in the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House”]. Ezhegodnik Rukopisnogo otdela Pushkinskogo Doma na 2005–2006 gody [Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House for the Years 2005–2006]. St. Petersburg, Dmitrii Bulanin Publ., 2009, pp. 57–222. (In Russian)

Received: 11 August 2021
Approved after reviewing: June 27, 2022
Date of publication: December 26, 2024

Piotr Bitsilli and Vladimir Veidle

Current Issue