На берегах Невы

"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. Ee vospominanii͡a "Na beregakh Nevy" byli izdany v Rossii v kont͡se 1980-kh godov kolossalʹnym tirazhom - 150 000 ėkzempli͡arov i byli vosprini͡aty kak otkrovenie. I v nashi dni ėta kniga - pami͡atnik ėpokhe, ee zhivoe svidetelʹstvo - chitaetsi͡a s ogromnym interesom. Na ee stranit͡sakh predstai͡ut Nikolaĭ Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova, Georgiĭ Ivanov, Osip Mandelʹshtam, Vladimir Mai͡akovskiĭ. . . Fenomenalʹnai͡a pami͡atʹ Odoevt͡sevoĭ pozvolila eĭ i cherez mnogo desi͡atkov let vosproizvesti razgovory, diskussii, spory togo vremeni.

"I'm not writing about myself or for myself, but about those I've been given to know.… I write about them and for them. I try to talk about myself as little as possible..." wrote Irina Odoevtseva, a Russian poetess, a favorite student of Nikolai Gumilev, who left Russia in 1922, 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. Her memoirs "On the Banks of the Neva" were published in Russia in the late 1980s in a huge circulation of 150,000 copies and were perceived as a revelation. Even today, this book is a monument to the era, its living testimony is read with great interest. Nikolai Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova, Georgy Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky appear on her pages ... Odoevtseva's phenomenal memory allowed her to reproduce conversations, discussions, and disputes of that time many decades later.