Зверь из бездны:Поэма страшных лет

Imi͡a Evgenii͡a Nikolaevicha Chirikova (1864-1932) malo izvestno sovremennomu chitateli͡u, a mezhdu tem ego proizvedenii͡a byli chrezvychaĭno populi͡arny v kont͡se XIX - nachale XX veka. Tema Grazhdanskoĭ voĭny stala osobenno vazhnoĭ dli͡a pisateli͡a. Kak itog: poi͡avlenie romana "Zverʹ iz bezdny", vpervye vyshedshego v 1924 godu na cheshskom i͡azyke (a cherez dva goda - na russkom), kogda pisatelʹ byl v ėmigrat͡sii. I poka vokrug romana v presse razrazilasʹ burnai͡a polemika, Chirikov s sozhaleniem pisal svoeĭ docheri: "Neuzheli nikto ne urazumel, chto moi͡a "poėma strashnykh let" imeet ne istoricheskui͡u, a chisto psikhologicheskui͡u zadachu obnazhenii͡a v cheloveke, pod vlii͡aniem bratskoĭ mezhdousobit͡sy, "zveri͡a"… Okhotno napechatal by svoi͡u knigu na vsekh i͡azykakh, chtoby ne perezhivshie grazhdanskoĭ voĭny narody otvratilisʹ ot bolʹshevizma…" V dannoe izdanie takzhe vkhodit statʹi͡a avtora "Smerdi͡akov russkoĭ revoli͡ut͡sii" o roli Maksima Gorʹkogo v sobytii͡akh togo vremeni.

The name of Evgeny Nikolaevich Chirikov (1864-1932) is little known to the modern reader, and yet his works were extremely popular in the late XIX — early XX century. The topic of the Civil War became especially important for the writer. As a result: the appearance of the novel "The Beast from the Abyss", first published in 1924 in Czech (and two years later in Russian), when the writer was in exile. And while a stormy controversy broke out in the press around the novel, Chirikov wrote to his daughter with regret: "Did no one realize that my "poem of terrible years" has not a historical, but a purely psychological task of exposing the "beast" in a person, under the influence of fraternal strife... I would willingly publish my book in all languages, so that the peoples who did not survive the civil war turned away from Bolshevism..." This publication also includes an article by the author of "Smerdyakov of the Russian Revolution" about the role of Maxim Gorky in the events of that time.