The article is devoted to the literary and human relations between two prominent figures in the literature of Russian emigre literature, M.I. Tsvetaeva and D.P. Svyatopolk-Mirsky. According to the author, an analysis of this relationship in the context of the history of literature, culture, ideology and politics of emigration adds the new details to the modern understanding Russia abroad as well as the literary biography functioning and “little time” (M.M. Bakhtin) working in writer and literary critic’ life. The author uses materials from the biographies of M. Tsvetaeva by M. Razumovskaya, V. Schweitzer and I. Kudrova, as well as the recently published biography of D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky by M. Yefimov and J. Smith. The author attempts to reconstruct the nature of the relationship between the poet and thе critic, to add new details to the already existing picture in colour studies and to highlight the reasons for specific interpretations of this subject.
M.I. Tsvetaeva; D.P. Svyatopolk-Mirsky; Russian emigre literature; Russian London; literary biography.
Osovskii, O.E. “Marina Tsvetaeva in the Biography of Prince D.P. Svyatopolk-Mirskyˮ. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 3(57), 2022, pp. 7–27. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2022.57.01
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