Alexey Remizov. “At the Evening Dawn”. A chapter from the manuscript; Letters to S.P. Remizova-Dovgello. 1925

The authors continue to introduce into scientific circulation chaptersfrom A.M. Remizov's manuscript “At the Evening Dawn”, which form a series ofpublications devoted to the émigré period of the writer’s life and work. The main partcontains Remizov’s letters to S.P. Remizova-Dovgello for 1925, which in 1945–1948were edited by the author and included in the planned book. The Appendix containsoriginal letters of the same period. Such a juxtaposition of a particular chapter with itsprimary sources opens up the prospect of exploring motivations that guided the writerin creating autobiographical works in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The corps ofepistolary documents for 1925 contains information related to Remizov’s position inthe literary environment of Parisian emigration, his friendly and professional contacts,and also reveals unknown facts of the creative and publishing history of his works.The publication is accompanied by detailed comments based on previously unknownarchival materials which supplement the history of the Russian Diaspora. Historicaland literary surveys of the authors made it possible to introduce significant refinementsinto the biographical data, for example, of the writer’s young friends G.S. Kireev andYu.D. Doreomedov, and into the chronology of the writer’s life and work as a whole.Keywords: Russia Abroad, Russian émigré literature, Alexey Remizov, SerafimaRemizova-Dovgello, “At the Evening Dawn”, epistolary sources.