Counter View: Correspondence of R. Rolland and I.S. Shmelev. To the 150th Anniversary of I.S. Shmelev
Journal: Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures]
Year: 2024

The paper studies literary contacts of Ivan Shmelev (1873–1950) with the French writer, 1915 Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland (1866–1944) in the 1920s. The author analyzes unpublished correspondence of the writers, including 3 letters from Shmelev and 2 response letters from Rolland. The content of the correspondence is connected with Shmelev’s desire to find in Rolland, who personified the “conscience of the world” for the writers of the Russian emigration, a like-minded person in understandin