Ivanov-Razumnik R. V. (1878-1946), publicist, literary critic

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IVANOV-RAZUMNIK (real name and family Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov) (1878-1946) literary critic, sociologist, public and political figure. He came to St. Petersburg in the 1880s, studied at the First Petersburg gymnasium. In 1902, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Petersburg University (from 1900, he also attended lectures at the Faculty of History and Philology); he participated in the students' movement. From 1904, he had publications in the journals Russkaya Mysl, Russkoe Bogatstvo, Zavety etc. He was close to the Socialists-Revolutionaries but was not a member. In 1916-18, a group of poets and writers united by the idea of a spiritual revolution formed round Ivanov-Razumnik [A. Bely, S. A. Esenin, N. A. Klyuev et al.; see Skify (Scythians)]. In 1917 he was an editor of the newspaper of left wing socialists-revolutionaries Delo Naroda. In 1918 he participated in the publication of the newspaper of socialists-revolutionaries Znamya Truda. In 1919, he was one of the organizers of the Free Philosophical Association (Volfila; it existed until 1924). In 1919-39, he was repeatedly exiled and arrested. In 1941, he was in the zone of German occupation and was sent to concentration camp in Eastern Prussia, he was set free in 1943. He lived in Lithuania, after that in Munich where he died. He is the author of the History of Russian Public Thought (1906-07), and of the works in the field of Russian literature from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. He wrote memoirs Writers' Fates: Prisons and Exiles (Moscow, 2000), he edited the collected works by V. G. Belinsky, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, the series Historical-Literary Library etc. From the 1910s up to October 1941, he lived in Tsarskoe Selo (the town of Pushkin) on 20 Kolpinskaya Street.

References: Лавров А. В. Иванов-Разумник // Возвращение. М., 1991. Вып. 1. С. 303-308; Иванов-Разумник: Личность. Творчество. Роль в культуре: Сб. ст. по материалам конф. СПб., 1996.

Y. N. Kruzhnov. Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich)
Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich
Ivanov-Razumnik (real name Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov)
Klyuev Nikolay Alexeevich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Иванов-Разумник: Личность. Творчество. Роль в культуре: Сб. ст. по материалам конф. СПб., 1996
Лавров А. В. Иванов-Разумник // Возвращение. М., 1991 Russkoe Bogatstvo (The Russian Wealth), journal, 1876-1918
Zavety (Behests), journal, 1912-1914
Skify (Scythians), almanac