An Episode from the History of Moscow Pushkin Studies

This article reconstructs the history of a circle which existed in Moscow in the 1920s and was devoted to the study of Pushkinʼs work, primarily the novel “Eugene Onegin”. The circleʼs members included G. Chulkov, V. Veresaev, Yu. Verkhovsky and I. Novikov, philologist L. Grossman, actors V. Luzhsky and L. Leonidov. Rare archival documents have been used to reconstruct the work of this literary group, the topics discussed at its meetings, and the general methodology of their approach to reading and commenting on texts.