V.V. Rozanov’s Epistolary Archive in the Context of Russian Book Culture

The article reports the significance of the letters of V.V. Rozanov’s correspondents for the thinker’s literary creativity. The extensive use of the letters from his archive became one of the main principles of the philosopher’s literary method. The principles of formation of V.V. Rozanov’s epistolary archive are disclosed in detail, from the time when the owner himself transferred it to theRumyantsevMuseumto the latest entries from his children and collectors. The main stages of the letters archive’s content publication, both by the writer himself and by modern researchers, are identified. The publications chronology of different layers of the archive is traced, starting from the publications of the letters written by V.V. Rozanov to himself. There are also the letters of the philosopher V.S. Solovyov, the publisher A.S. Suvorin, and the prominent representatives of the conservative camp of literature N.N. Strakhov, S.A. Rachinsky and K.N. Leontyev. The article describes how V.V. Rozanov used the letters of the clergy to reform the Church and modify the civil law. He also began to publish them during his lifetime. There are considered the contemporary publications, which reflect the modification of public interest in different life aspects of the writer. The study of the book publications of the letters to V.V. Rozanov, conducted on the basis of the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library, allows to note a displacement of the reader’s interest: from the longstanding global values in culture (the artist M.V. Nesterov, the writer F.M. Dostoevsky and the philosopher S.N. Bulgakov), through the long concealed creators of art modernism, to the continuation of the series of letters of conservative writers “The Literary Exiles”, conceived by V.V. Rozanov during his lifetime. 

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