The Fates of Tolstoy Scholars (On the Correspondence of N.K. Gudziy with V.A. Zhdanov and E.E. Zауdenschnur). Article One: War Years (1942–1945)
Journal: Studia Litterarum
Year: 2024

Based on previously unknown and for the first time introduced into scientific circulation archival materials, the article presents the history of personal and epistolary communication of three outstanding literary critics and textual critics — N.K. Gudziy, V.A. Zhdanov, and E.E. Zaydenshnur. The published correspondence allows the reader to understand and feel under what conditions and under what sometimes stressful circumstances their titanic scientific work took place, which required maximum c