Georgi Ivanovich Chulkov

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from left: Konstantin Erberg , Fjodor Sologub , Alexander Blok , Georgi Tschulkow (December 1908)

Georgi Iwanowitsch Tschulkow ( Russian Георгий Иванович Чулков ; * January 20 July / February 1,  1879 greg. In Moscow ; † January 1, 1939 ibid) was a Russian writer , literary critic and poet of symbolism .

Life

Chulkov's father came from an old noble family in the Tambov governorate and was a civil servant in the military office. Chulkov's uncle Vladimir Alexandrovich Alexandrov was a dramaturge and wrote the story of a marriage that was staged in the Maly Theater in 1912 . Chulkov was sent to high school in 1889 and began studying at the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1898 , which he did not graduate.

At the university, Chulkov joined the executive committee of the united country teams and organizations, which united the revolutionary students. In 1901 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Amga in Yakutia for four years . In 1903 he was given an amnesty and lived in Nizhny Novgorod under police surveillance. In 1904 he went to St. Petersburg , where he published his first book of stories . He also translated songs by Maurice Maeterlinck . Soon Dmitri Sergejewitsch Mereschkowski hired him as secretary of the magazine Novy Put (New Way). After this magazine was banned during the 1905 Revolution , Chulkov published the magazine Woprossy Schisni ( Vital Issues ), in which Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Berdjajew and Sergei Nikolajewitsch Bulgakow collaborated. The following year he published the sensational book on Mystical Anarchism , in which he propagated individualism and personal freedom with a rejection of any form of control, including social and political control. 1906-1908 he edited three anthologies of the torch for symbolism authors. 1909–1915 he lived in Italy , France and Switzerland . During the First World War he was a doctor at the front in 1916 .

from left: Georgi Tschulkow, Marija Petrowych , Anna Achmatowa , Ossip Mandelstam (1930s)

After the October Revolution he continued to publish according to his philosophical and socio-political views without wanting to adapt to the new government. His anthologies with stories and poems appeared in the 1920s. In 1930 he published his memoirs under the title Wanderjahre , which were accused of exaggerating their own role. He worked as a literary critic. He then devoted himself to the life and work of Fyodor Ivanovich Tjuttschews . He also published books on the work of Pushkin (1938) and Dostoyevsky (1939). He saw his theory of mystical anarchism increasingly critical and described it as his greatest error.

Tschulkow was married to Nadezhda Grigoryevna Tschulkowa (1874–1961). He died of tuberculosis and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BnF: Georgij Ivanovič Čulkov (accessed on January 12, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d Runiwers: Чулков Георгий Иванович (accessed January 12, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c d Могилы ушедших поэтов: Чулков Георгий Иванович (accessed January 12, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b Большая российская энциклопедия: ЧУЛКО́В Георгий Иванович (accessed January 12, 2019).
  5. ↑ Метерлинк М .: Двенадцать песен в переводе Георгия Чулкова . St. Petersburg 1905.
  6. ↑ Век перевода: Чулков, Георгий Иванович (accessed January 12, 2019).
  7. ↑ Г.И. Чулков: Воспоминания . 1930 ( dugward.ru [accessed January 12, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Tschulkow, Georgi Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чулков, Георгий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer, literary critic and poet of symbolism
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1939
Place of death Moscow