Open AccessOn the 100th Anniversary of the Book In a Country of Perpetual War (Albanian Sketches) by Janko Lavrin. St. Petersburg, 1916.
Author(s) -
Tatjana Ivanovna Čepelevskaja
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
monitor ish
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1580-688X
pISSN - 1580-7118
DOI - 10.33700/1580-7118.18.1.141-163(2016
Subject(s) - newspaper , destiny (iss module) , history , front (military) , st petersburg , minor (academic) , first world war , art history , classics , literature , art , ancient history , media studies , humanities , engineering , sociology , archaeology , mechanical engineering , metropolitan area , aerospace engineering
The article commemorates the 100th anniversary of an amazing book with an amazing destiny. Its author, Janko Lavrin (1887–1986), a Slovene who spoke and wrote flawless Russian, having lived and worked in Russia from 1907 to 1916 (with minor interruptions), was actively engaged in social and literary activities. During World War I he repeatedly journeyed to the Balkan front as a foreign correspondent for the New Time newspaper (Новое время). His travel impressions formed the basis for the book which became an invaluable document of the era. It was thanks to Janko Lavrin’s efforts that the Albanian Issue of the magazine pertaining to the Russian literary avant-garde group Bezkrovnoe ubijstvo (Bloodless Murder, 1914–1918) was published.