На берегах Невы. На берегах Сены

"I͡A pishu ne o sebe i ne dli͡a sebi͡a, a o tekh, kogo mne bylo dano uznatʹ… I͡A pishu o nikh i dli͡a nikh. O sebe i͡a starai͡usʹ govoritʹ kak mozhno menʹshe…" - napisala v predislovii k svoim memuaram Irina Odoevt͡seva - russkai͡a poėtessa, li͡ubimai͡a uchenit͡sa Nikolai͡a Gumileva, v 1922 godu pokinuvshai͡a Rossii͡u. Ona prozhila dolgui͡u zhiznʹ i vernulasʹ na rodinu v 1987 godu - posledni͡ai͡a predstavitelʹnit͡sa dalekogo Cerebri͡anogo veka. Eĭ dovelosʹ uvidetʹ svoi knigi izdannymi v SSSR - memuary "Na beregakh Nevy" i "Na beregakh Seny" vyshli v kont͡se 1980-kh godov kolossalʹnymi tirazhami. Geroi ėtikh vospominaniĭ - Nikolaĭ Gumilev, Georgiĭ Ivanov, Osip Mandelʹshtam, Zinaida Gippius, Dmitriĭ Merezhkovskiĭ, Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Bunin i mnogie drugie. I seĭchas, spusti͡a gody, ėta kniga - pami͡atnik ėpokhe, ee zhivoe svidetelʹstvo - chitaetsi͡a s ogromnym interesom. Fenomenalʹnai͡a pami͡atʹ Odoevt͡sevoĭ pozvolila eĭ i cherez mnogo desi͡atkov let vosproizvesti razgovory, diskussii, spory togo vremeni. V poslednie gody zhizni I. V. Odoevt͡seva zadumala tretʹi͡u knigu vospominaniĭ - "Na beregakh Lety", kotorai͡a, odnako, ostalasʹ nezakonchennoĭ: lishʹ neskolʹko glav byli opublikovany v parizhskoĭ gazete "Russkai͡a myslʹ". Ėti glavy vkli͡ucheny v nastoi͡ashchee izdanie.

"I am not writing about myself and not for myself, but about those whom I was given to know… I write about them and for them. I try to talk about myself as little as possible..." — Irina Odoevtseva, a Russian poet, a favorite student of Nikolai Gumilev, who left Russia in 1922, wrote in the preface to her memoirs. She lived a long life and returned to her homeland in 1987 — the last representative of the distant Silver Age. She happened to see her books published in the USSR - the memoirs "On the Banks of the Neva" and "On the Banks of the Seine" were published in the late 1980s in huge circulations. The heroes of these memoirs are Nikolai Gumilev, Georgy Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam, Zinaida Gippius, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Bunin and many others. And now, years later, this book - a monument to the era, its living testimony - is read with great interest. Odoevtseva's phenomenal memory allowed her to reproduce conversations, discussions, and disputes of that time many decades later. In the last years of her life, I. V. Odoevtseva conceived a third book of memoirs — "On the Shores of Lethe", which, however, remained unfinished: only a few chapters were published in the Paris newspaper Russkaya Mysl. These chapters are included in this edition.