“Nobody Considered Me a Fraudster Yet...”: S.M. Alyansky Letters to L.D. Blok (1922–1924)

The article, based on publication of S.M. Alyansky’s letters to L.D. Blok (1922, 1924), reconstructs the history of relations between the owner of “Alkonost” and the poet’s widow, who transferred the exclusive rights to all of Blok’s works to Alyansky. The article clarifies the details and circumsta...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:89fe908722e248aa8c971306dabce2dc2021-11-24T08:41:26Z“Nobody Considered Me a Fraudster Yet...”: S.M. Alyansky Letters to L.D. Blok (1922–1924)10.22455/2541-8297-2020-18-109-1512541-82972542-2421https://doaj.org/article/89fe908722e248aa8c971306dabce2dc2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://litfact.ru/images/2020-18/LF-2020-4-18_109-151_Fedotova.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2541-8297https://doaj.org/toc/2542-2421The article, based on publication of S.M. Alyansky’s letters to L.D. Blok (1922, 1924), reconstructs the history of relations between the owner of “Alkonost” and the poet’s widow, who transferred the exclusive rights to all of Blok’s works to Alyansky. The article clarifies the details and circumstances of business negotiations between Alyansky and representatives of the “Slovo” publishing house in Berlin, which published Blok’s collected works (three volumes of poems and “The Theater”) in 1922, as well as the financial conditions for publishing a ten-volume collection of Blok’s works under the “Alkonost” brand in the publishing house “Epokha” (Berlin, 1923). The main subject of consideration is a fact unknown in Block studies — the fraud allegations made against Alyansky by L.D. Blok. The introduced archival materials do not only shed light on this incident, but also prove the unsoundness of the insinuations put forward against the owner of “Alkonost”, whose publishing and royalty policies were determined by professional enterprise and high — “knightly” — moral qualities.Svetlana V. FedotovaRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticlea.a. blokl.d. blokm.s. alyanskypublishing houses “alkonost”“slovo”“epoch”collected workscopyrighthonorarium policyLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUЛитературный факт, Iss 4 (18), Pp 109-151 (2020)
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language EN
RU
topic a.a. blok
l.d. blok
m.s. alyansky
publishing houses “alkonost”
“slovo”
“epoch”
collected works
copyright
honorarium policy
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle a.a. blok
l.d. blok
m.s. alyansky
publishing houses “alkonost”
“slovo”
“epoch”
collected works
copyright
honorarium policy
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Svetlana V. Fedotova
“Nobody Considered Me a Fraudster Yet...”: S.M. Alyansky Letters to L.D. Blok (1922–1924)
description The article, based on publication of S.M. Alyansky’s letters to L.D. Blok (1922, 1924), reconstructs the history of relations between the owner of “Alkonost” and the poet’s widow, who transferred the exclusive rights to all of Blok’s works to Alyansky. The article clarifies the details and circumstances of business negotiations between Alyansky and representatives of the “Slovo” publishing house in Berlin, which published Blok’s collected works (three volumes of poems and “The Theater”) in 1922, as well as the financial conditions for publishing a ten-volume collection of Blok’s works under the “Alkonost” brand in the publishing house “Epokha” (Berlin, 1923). The main subject of consideration is a fact unknown in Block studies — the fraud allegations made against Alyansky by L.D. Blok. The introduced archival materials do not only shed light on this incident, but also prove the unsoundness of the insinuations put forward against the owner of “Alkonost”, whose publishing and royalty policies were determined by professional enterprise and high — “knightly” — moral qualities.
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title “Nobody Considered Me a Fraudster Yet...”: S.M. Alyansky Letters to L.D. Blok (1922–1924)
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