Georgy Chulkov

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Georgy Chulkov

Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov (Russian: Гео́ргий Ива́нович Чулко́в, IPA:

Russian Symbolist poet, editor, writer and critic. In 1906 he created and popularized the theory of Mystical Anarchism
.

Biography

. 1930s

Chulkov was born in Moscow in the family of an impoverished

Nikolai Lossky
until it folded in December 1905.

In 1906, Chulkov edited Fakely (Torches), an anthology of Symbolist writing, which called on Russian writers to:

abandon Symbolism and Decadence and move forward to "new mystical experience".[1]

Later in the year Chulkov followed up with a "Mystical Anarchism" manifesto. Russian poets Alexander Blok and especially Vyacheslav Ivanov were supportive of the new movement while Valery Bryusov, the editor of the leading Symbolist magazine Vesy (The Balance), and Andrei Bely were opposed to it.

Chulkov published a number of novels, poems and short story collections between 1906 and the outbreak of

Romanov dynasty
in the nineteenth century.

Georgy Chulkov died in 1939 from emphysema. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works

Novels

  • Satana (Satan), 1914, 185p.
  • Serezha Nestroev, 1916, 182p.
  • Metel', 1917, 190p.

Collections

  • Kremnistyj put', 1904, 141p.
  • Vesnoyu na sewer, 1908, 86p.
  • Lyudi v tumane, 1916, 177p.
  • Vchera i segodnya, 1916, 166p.
  • Posramlenye besy, 1921, 127p.
  • Nashi sputniki, 1922, 199p.
  • Stihotvoreniya (Poems), Moscow, Zadruga, 1922, 112p.
  • Vechernie zori: rasskazy, Moscow, Zemlya i fabrika, 1924, 91p.
  • Valtasarovo tsarstvo (Balthazar's kingdom, reprint collection), Moscow, Respublika, 1998, , 607p.

Non-fiction

Autobiography

Notes

  1. , p. 186.
  2. ^ L.A. Sugaj. Georgy Chulkov i ego poema "Rus'", Vestnik slavyanskih kul'tur No. 1, Moscow, GASK, 2000, pp. 67–68.

References

  • L.A. Sugaj. Georgy Chulkov i ego poema "Rus'", Vestnik slavyanskih kul'tur No. 1, Moscow, GASK, 2000, p. 66-72. Available online Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  • Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. "The Transmutation of the Symbolist Ethos: Mystical Anarchism and the Revolution of 1905" in Slavic Review 36, No. 4 (December 1977), pp. 608–627.
  • Russian language biography
  • Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 382–389.