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Mark Konstantinovich Azadovskii (1888-1954)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

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Slavic Review , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , Winter 1988 , pp. 794 - 796
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1988

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References

1. For an analysis of various folklore theories in the Soviet Union, with particular attention to the political overtones of each school, see Felix J. Oinas, Folklore Activities and Scholarship in Russia, in his Essays on Russian Folklore and Mythology (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1984), pp. 131-59.

2. On Azadovskii's education and early work experience, see Bakhtin, V., Mark Azadovskii, Sibirskie ogni, no. 3 (1962), pp. 177-178 Google Scholar; V. Zhirmunskii, M. K. Azadovskii: Biograficheskii ocherk in M. K. Azadovskii, Istoriia russkoi fol'kloristiki (Moscow, 1958), pp. 3-8; N. N. Ianovskii, Mark Konstantinovich Azadovskii (Glavy iz ocherka o zhizni i tvorchestve) in Razvitie literaturno-kriticheskoi mysli v Sibiri (Novosibirsk, 1986), pp. 75-78; and unpublished autobiography (ca. 1950s), personal archive of K. M. Azadovskii, Leningrad (I take this occasion to thank Konstantin Azadovskii for access to this and other material).

3. Bakhtin, Mark Azadovskii, pp. 179-180.

4. Pis'ma M. K. Azadovskomu, ed. L. V. Azadovskaia, Literaturnoe nasledstvo Sibiri 1 (1969): 273-279.

5. For a tabulation of Azadovskii's correspondence, including its disposition among private and state archives, see Azadovskaia, L. V., Iz nauchnogo naslediia M. K. Azadovskogo (Zamysly i nachinaniia) in Azadovskii, M., Stat'i ipis'ma (Novosibirsk, 1978), pp. 189-191.Google Scholar That volume also contains a selection of Azadovskii's letters to six friends and colleagues (pp. 189-237), and 81 letters appeared in L. V. Azadovskaia, Iz pisem M. K. Azadovskogo (1912-1941), Iz istorii russkoi fol'kloristiki, ed. A. A. Gorelov (Leningrad, 1978), pp. 199-273.

6. N. Ianovskii, L. V. Azadovskaia, Sibir', no. 5 (1985): 94.

7. An exemplary study of individual tale tellers is Sibirskaia skazochnitsa N. O. Vinokurova (1925), reprinted in Stat'i i pis'ma. For a complete bibliography, see V. P. Tomina, ed., Mark Konstantinovich Azadovskii 1888-1954: Ukazatel literatury (Novosibirsk, 1983); a listing of works from 1944 to 1954 follows the obituary of Azadovskii in Literaturnoe nasledstvo 60 (1956): 644-646; see, too, S. S. Ber, Bibliografiia M. K. Azadovskogo: 1913-1943 (Irkutsk, 1944).

8. M. K. Azadovskii, Pushkin i fol'klor, Pushkin: Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii 3 (1937): 152-182; reprinted in Literatura i fol'klor (Leningrad, 1938).

9. Pevtsy I. S. Turgeneva, in Azadovskii, Stat'i o literature ifol'klore (Moscow-Leningrad, 1960).

10. Volume 1 appeared in 1958, volume 2 in 1963; a third volume on folklore studies in the Soviet period was left unfinished, as noted by L. V. Azadovskaia, Iz nauchnogo naslediia, p. 199. The manuscript of the third volume is in the Lenin Library Manuscript Division, f. 542.

11. Ianovskii, Mark Konstantinovich Azadovskii, pp. 92-94. Ianovskii also quotes from an extraordinary letter from Azadovskii to N. K. Gudzii, describing the way that Istoriia russkoi fol'kloristiki was written during the blockade of Leningrad.

12. First published in Chita, 1922; reprinted in Stat'i i pis'ma, pp. 15-42. Compare the 1938 essay Zabytyi sibirskii poet (Stikhotvoreniia Matveia Aleksandrova), Stat'i i pis'ma, pp. 42-62.

13. See, for example, Poetika giblogo mesta (K piatiletiiu so dnia smerti V. G. Korolenko), Sibirskie ogni, no. 1 (1927), pp. 138-158; expanded in Azadovskii, Ocherki literatury i kul'tury Sibiri, issue 1 (Irkutsk, 1947), pp. 165-200; and in Azadovskii, Stat'i o literature ifol'klore (Moscow-Leningrad, 1960), pp. 503-543.

14. A. N. Afanas'ev, Narodnye russkie skazki, ed. M. K. Azadovskii, N. P. Andreev, Iu. M. Sokolov. 3 vol. (Leningrad, 1936-1940). N. M Iazykov, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, ed. M. K. Azadovskii (Moscow-Leningrad, 1934).

15. Azadovskii, Zateriannye i utrachennye proizvedeniia dekabristov, Literaturnoe nasledstvo 59 (1954): 601-777. Azadovskii wrote seven essays for this two-volume issue (vols. 59-60), two of them under the pseudonym M. K. Konstantinov.

16. Letter to Azadovskii, 17 June 1952 [Russian original], K. M. Azadovskii personal archive. In a subsequent letter, 23 June 1954, Oksman reports the uniformly enthusiastic response to the essay.

17. L. V. Azadovskaia, Iz literaturnogo naslediia.

18. Letter of Iu. G. Oksman, 25 August 1954.

19. Ianovskii, Sibirskie temy v tvorchestve M. K. Azadovskogo in Azadovskii, Stat'i i pis'ma, p. 14; V. Bakhtin, Mark Azadovskii, p. 185. For a direct rebuttal of the cosmopolitanism charges, see Ianovskii, Mark Konstantinovich Azadovskii, pp. 96-97.