Konstantin Bolshakov in military service: Revisiting the issue

The note provides a clarifying commentary on the final part of V.I. Mozalevsky’s memoirs “Paths, ways, encounters”. The commentary concerns the Russian poet and prose writer Konstantin Aristarkhovich Bolshakov (1895– 1938) and the details associated with his entry into military service. On the basis...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:59cdc0c9c7a2444283a05bacc9eb88ef2021-11-23T12:54:12ZKonstantin Bolshakov in military service: Revisiting the issue10.22455/2541-8297-2019-14-412-4202541-82972542-2421https://doaj.org/article/59cdc0c9c7a2444283a05bacc9eb88ef2019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://litfact.ru/images/2019-14/LF-2019-4-14_412-420_Bogomolov.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2541-8297https://doaj.org/toc/2542-2421The note provides a clarifying commentary on the final part of V.I. Mozalevsky’s memoirs “Paths, ways, encounters”. The commentary concerns the Russian poet and prose writer Konstantin Aristarkhovich Bolshakov (1895– 1938) and the details associated with his entry into military service. On the basis of unpublished archival materials, in particular on letters to Sergey Bobrov and to Alexei Alekseevich Borovoy (1875–1935), the author clarifies a number of facts from Bolshakov’s biography related to the period when, as it is traditionally stated in the research literature on the basis of Bolshakov’s well-known autobiographies and his novel “Marshal of the 105th day”, he left Moscow University and entered Nikolaev Cavalry School. The author establishes that in reality Bolshakov was sent to the Chuguev Military School (Kharkov Province), which he soon left. The first evidence of his stay in military service in the army, according to the investigations, the results of which are presented in the article, refers not to 1915, but to December 1916. Restoring the further biography of Bolshakov by correspondence, the author comes to the conclusion that significantly corrects the established reputation of “brave cavalryman ”, who entered the army only at the end of 1916, but continued to lead a predominantly civilian lifestyle away from the fronts.Nikolay BogomolovRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticlecommentaryviktor mozalevskymemoirskonstantin bolshakovmilitary serviceLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUЛитературный факт, Iss 4 (14), Pp 412-420 (2019)
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viktor mozalevsky
memoirs
konstantin bolshakov
military service
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle commentary
viktor mozalevsky
memoirs
konstantin bolshakov
military service
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Nikolay Bogomolov
Konstantin Bolshakov in military service: Revisiting the issue
description The note provides a clarifying commentary on the final part of V.I. Mozalevsky’s memoirs “Paths, ways, encounters”. The commentary concerns the Russian poet and prose writer Konstantin Aristarkhovich Bolshakov (1895– 1938) and the details associated with his entry into military service. On the basis of unpublished archival materials, in particular on letters to Sergey Bobrov and to Alexei Alekseevich Borovoy (1875–1935), the author clarifies a number of facts from Bolshakov’s biography related to the period when, as it is traditionally stated in the research literature on the basis of Bolshakov’s well-known autobiographies and his novel “Marshal of the 105th day”, he left Moscow University and entered Nikolaev Cavalry School. The author establishes that in reality Bolshakov was sent to the Chuguev Military School (Kharkov Province), which he soon left. The first evidence of his stay in military service in the army, according to the investigations, the results of which are presented in the article, refers not to 1915, but to December 1916. Restoring the further biography of Bolshakov by correspondence, the author comes to the conclusion that significantly corrects the established reputation of “brave cavalryman ”, who entered the army only at the end of 1916, but continued to lead a predominantly civilian lifestyle away from the fronts.
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