Rozanov V. V. (1856-1919), writer, publicist

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ROZANOV Vasily Vasilievich (1856-1919), essayist, critic, publicist. Graduated from the History and Philosophy Department of the Moscow University (1882). From 1893-1917 resided in St. Petersburg. From 1893-99 held the post of Special Commission Officer to the State Control Department. From 1899-1917 acted as a Novoe Vremya newspaper editorial board member; contributed for the Russky Vestnik, the Zhurnal Ministerstva Narodnogo Prosveshchenia journals and a number of other periodicals of various social orientation, using over 40 pseudonyms (most famous that of V. Varvarin); had a large readership. Fell into modernist literary circles, contributed for the Novy Put, Mir Iskusstva and other journals; became one of the initiators of the Religious and Philosophical Assemblies (1901-03; in 1907 were re-established as the Religious and Philosophical Society, from which Rozanov was expelled in 1914). In the first half of the 1900s Rozanov used to host Sundays in his flat, attended by Andrey Bely, Vyacheslav I. Ivanov, D. S. Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Fedor Sologub, А. М. Remizov, L. S. Bakst, K. А. Somov, Nikolai Berdyaev, D. V. Filosofov, S. P. Dyagilev et alia. The majority of Rozanov's books had been published in St. Petersburg, including Solitaria (1912), Fallen Leaves. First Volume (1913), Fallen Leaves. Second Volume (1915), with a unique elaboration of the literary philosophical fragment genre. Rozanov's unorthodox literary-critical, socio-political, national and religious views, harsh opinions and comments, sometimes verging on provocation and scandal, resulted in censorship and legal persecution, breaking up with former associates in the late 1900s, and subsequently fell into literary isolation. From 1893-99 he lived at 2 Pavlovskaya Street (today Monchegorskaya); 1899-1906 — at 39, Shpalernaya Street; 1906-09 — at 4 Kazachy Lane; 1909-12 - at 18 Zvenigorodskaya Street; 1912-15 — at 33 Kolomenskaya Street; 1915-17 — at 44b Shpalernaya Street.

References: Бурмистров А. Петербург В. Розанова // Слова и отзвуки. 1992. № 1. С. 52-57; Николюкин А. Н. Розанов. М., 2001; Фатеев В. А. С русской бездной в душе: Жизнеописание Василия Розанова. СПб.; Кострома. 2002.

D. N. Cherdakov. Bakst Leon (real name Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg)
Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich)
Gippius Zinaida Nikolaevna
Ivanov Vyacheslav Ivanovich
Merezhkovsky Dmitry Sergeevich
Remizov Alexey Mikhailovich
Rozanov Vasily Vasilievich
Sologub Fedor (real name Teternikov Fedor Kuzmich)
Bolshoy Kazachy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Kolomenskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
Monchegorskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Shpalernaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 44, litera л. Б
Shpalernaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
Zvenigorodskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Николюкин А. Н. Розанов. М., 2001
Фатеев В. А. С русской бездной в душе: Жизнеописание Василия Розанова. СПб.; Кострома, 2002
Бурмистров А. Петербург В. Розанова // Слова и отзвуки, 1992 Novoe vremya (The New Time), newspaper, 1868-1917
Novy Put (New Way), newspaper
Mir Iskusstva (World of Art), journal
Religious and Philosophical Assemblies