ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED POETRY BY I.O. LYALECHKIN IN RUSSIAN PERIODICALS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1890S

Abstract

The article presents the interim results of the work on the collection and systematization of the works of the Russian poet Ivan Osipovich Lyalechkin (1870–1895), published in the Russian periodicals of the first half of the 1890s. I.O. Lyalechkin, named in one of V.Y. Bryusov’s poems “the forerunner of unknown harmonies”, was among those who stood at the origins of Russian symbolism, However, unlike his contemporaries who became famous, he was forgotten for many decades, largely because of his early death, which prevented his creative talent from fully unfolding, as well as because of the scattering of texts he created on the pages of various magazines and newspapers of the late 19th century. On the eve of his death, I.O. Lyalechkin was preparing his first book of poetry for publication, but it was never published, and the manuscript was lost. In the following decades, research led to the publication of a collection of 23 original and translated texts by I.O. Lyalechkin in the book “Poets of the 1880s and 1890s” (1972), which was published in the Great Series of the Poet’s Library. The result of our project should be the publication of the first collection of works by I.O. Lyalechkin.