Snanije
Snanije ( Russian Знание , knowledge ) was a Saint Petersburg publishing company of the Marxist wing of the RSDLP , which Maxim Gorky headed from 1902. The company was founded in 1898 by Konstantin Pyatnitsky, Vladimir Posse and others. Gorky left the publishing company in 1912 after differences with Pyatnitsky.
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Collected works were published by Gorki (9 volumes), Alexander Serafimowitsch , Alexander Kuprin , Wikenti Veressajew , Stepan Skitalez and Nikolai Teleschow.
Between 1904 and 1913, forty Snanije anthologies with stories, novels, poems and essays were published. Lenin praised Gorky's talent for bringing together some of the best Russian authors of his time in the anthologies. The circulation of a volume reached an average of 65,000 copies. In addition to Russian authors such as Gorky, Anton Chekhov , Serafimowitsch, Kuprin, Leonid Andrejew , Iwan Bunin , Weressajew, Dmitri Mamin-Sibirjak , Sergei Gussew-Orenburgski, Evgeni Tschirikow and Nikolai Garin-Michailowski, there are also, for example, Émile Verhaeren , Gerhart Hauptmann , Gustave Flaubert and Knut Hamsun . These Snanije anthology authors wrote, in a nutshell, against imperialism , oppression , national discord, religious prejudice and dull bourgeois morality. The writing points of view differed. While Gorky and Serafimowitsch remained attached to socialist realism , Andreyev increasingly approached a sarcastic-resigned position. Such differences widened after the Russian Revolution of 1905 . From 1911 the singer and journalist Viktor Mirolyubov published the anthologies.
The publishing company brought a total of almost four million copies of inexpensive brochures with the ideas of Marx , Engels , Lafargue and Bebel to the Russian-speaking market.
literature
- Wolfgang Kasack : Lexicon of Russian Literature from 1917 (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 451). Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-45101-8 ; 2nd edition under the title Lexicon of Russian Literature of the 20th Century , Sagner, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87690-459-5 .
Web links
- Entry at fantlab.ru (Russian)
- Entry in the FEB (Russian)
- Realistic prose. Gorky and the Snaniye
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Пятницкий, Константин Петрович; engl. Konstantin Pyatnitsky
- ↑ Russian Поссе, Владимир Александрович
- ↑ Russian Скиталец, Степан Гаврилович
- ↑ Russian Телешов, Николай Дмитриевич
- ↑ Russian Гусев-Оренбургский, Сергей Иванович
- ↑ Russian Чириков, Евгений Николаевич
- ↑ Russian Гарин-Михайловский, Николай Георгиевич
- ↑ Russian Миролюбов, Виктор Серге́евич, engl. Viktor Mirolyubov