that is, part of the archive of Leonid Andreev from
Vadim, for the sake of not getting caught up,
we received his own
literary archive and the archive of his brother before
him,
Vadim did not see his brother, his
only brother, I don’t know
how many, not the same for many years, 50 years
were used as it turns out with the revolution of the
elite the ninth year until some 57
when trouble was released and it was decided
to transfer his archive to the west to be withdrawn just in
case, and this is a very interesting
thing, we now have such
notebooks with Danil’s works and
he wrote them in his hand with the Vladimir
worm and a small booklet is all sewn
from pulls separately and for money and such
give sheets of slits,
hand-stitched with threads and here from
hundreds of letters he is a prominent channel paper 0
we write and hide and at the same time you are ringed with
death and he and Alexander find out
reprinted as far as I understand the story
this archive and the
current publications that are made in
the Soviet Union based on
authorized typescript, here we are, this is
of course a thing from Nick,
that is,
as far as I know in the West there
are no such things, tell me, what would prompt you to
study the work of Leonid Andrey, the
diary of not Tolstoy, not Dostoevsky, not
bitterly, it’s not I know it’s not the wanderers who chose
I won’t let myself be spat on,
it’s hard to say you know this is
how I graduated and the German department you
become a
university named after was offered such a topic
for no Andreev and German philosophy
I had a teacher Nikolai Andreev Nikolai
Efremovich Andreev namesake but
absolutely not related really need a big one
We have a man who is an English Slavist, yes yes yes yes
yes, he himself studied in Prague at
Charles University and then worked at the
Kondakovsky Institute and
witnessed the occupation of Prague and the Soviet
troops and the removal of the lived archive,
called the guns of the Russian foreign
archive, which is only now beginning with
you disassembles and begins to print
material from this archive,
then he spent several years in the
Soviet zone and in the end he was
discharged by Professor Elizaveta Feodorovna
from Cambridge, that is, she discharged him
to Cambridge and he has since worked with whom
and died in eighty-two
and for English Slavic studies he is a
very, very big man because
he
sent many people on the righteous path, so to speak,
he looks like yes, he was one of the
first in the West
to write about Andreev and generally raised the question
that it was time to study Andreev and
then he suggested this topic to me and I became
very, very interested and
of course began to read everything that was published
and then the archives. I fell into Leningrad
for a whole year working in the Soviet archives with
great benefit and then after that I
dared to turn to myself in
the West and when you met Tenge
Andrey
fluently because I fought in Leningrad
and Vera Leonidovna lived in Moscow,
the fact that we only met once,
and oddly enough, as soon as I was
shown, for example, the first diaries of
Leonid Andreev,
this house is the first surviving volume of
his diary in 1890 and after all
my
wise 90 students he he
was once a schoolboy,
you know, I guessed from his work
how he felt about
shopping, hands were not equal, and suddenly in
everyone’s diary today I started reading,
say, Schopenhauer, I got to such and such a
place, it makes an impression on me, the
combination of German philosophy, the
left was not by chance he doesn’t listen at all
when he started writing
fiction
he didn’t write any more diaries and only at the
very end of his marriage when he stopped then
he wrote an amazing diary for 18 out of 19
minutes and now I’m just preparing this
diary now for publication
I need to figure it out myself
and what is happening
in your thoughts, therefore, God, there are
too many contradictions and
opposing currents, involuntarily
carrying away
this, to arm yourself with special firmness
of thought
in order to fight the external and internal
slots
until the 14 18 years, chanting the revolutions of the
revolutionaries, I was like a man
who exposes himself to the storm while sitting on the shore,
now I am in the very the sea among the waves and
death and I want to save, if not my life, then my
head
and my free attitude towards the hurricane,
he had some kind of injury to his
hand and that’s why he very early
began to print everything,
even his diary, he typed it as if
it was quite strange and he buried copies of
all his letters, found through carbon copies,
so his archives are very strange in this regard,
because usually the
archives contain letters from strangers
who write to you, and your letters are even
angrier, but on the contrary, all his own
writings are preserved in the archives save
more letters
what could be assumed, it
seems to me, for example, I published a letter and
Vuk Milyukov in 19 in the year from a copy and where
they published the entry in one of the
issues minutes this past day
[music] the
restoration of Russia will take
a long time and slowly it will continue for a long time
Evil destructive forces roam and
only words along with firm power
can fulfill this enormous task and
really destroyed everything and I’m
scared to think what, for example, the
current youth and
Lunacharsky schools are like, what emptiness,
what an abomination of the soul,
what a trend,
and before Russia it was offensive to the
intelligentsia, and now it awaits us such
spiritual poverty
in comparison with the disasters of which
economic devastation and hunger
is only the least evil
externally foreigners can help us
and who will save us from within
only the energetic work of all the remaining
and preserving traditions of Russian culture
can save the people and the country from
final destruction who destroyed Russia
who continues to torment it semi-living
body personality Nicholas II Lenin and
Trotsky absence of personalities the misfortune of an
uncultured people in which there are too
many crowds and too few
individuals with their consciousness and will
in Russia is destroyed more than the
young industry in Russia the
person is destroyed since he began to be and
come to light
and my spiritual the desire to restore
man, to return him
and direct him to those highest aspirations of the
individual to that threshold of high consciousness
and duty beyond which the individual enters on the
first stage of divinity the path of
perfect human existence
and a few more comments related to
my program the masses were set in
motion and fanatical frenzy
by the promise of an extraordinary miracle the holiday
that will come on earth who was nothing
will be everything and this is tomorrow now this very
minute and hence such a fatal impotence of
all sober words, sober programs and
honest but sober promises, what does it mean to
increase wages by a ruble or
reduce the working day by an hour when
heavenly palaces are promised there Tabernacles is the
sermon
that I want to preach must also
contain a promise of a miracle
based on the same words who was
nothing
will be everything this miracle is not false like that of the
Bolsheviks and Socialists not hocus pocus
but the truth the transformation of a biped into a
person they promised a festival of the body and
dance we must promise
and give a holiday to the soul
when it rises to the highest heights of
humanity