N.N. Rusov’s work on the creative biography of V.V. Rozanov (based on materials from the Collection of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library)

The paper identifies priority of the writer V.V. Rusov’s work on the creative biography of the famous philosopher V.V. Rozanov using materials from the Rozanov archive at the Collection of Manuscript of the Russian State Library. Rusov's letters indicate details in the process of creating the biography. An attempt is made to determine Rusov's professional affiliation. The paper indicates parallels in the lives of the biographer and his research object. It traces chronology in the development of relations between the writers. The time frames, when the writer received books by V.V. Rozanov from the author for creating the biography, are indicated. N.N. Rusov, along with V.V. Rozanov, was one of the initiators of the collective work on the unfinished Dictionary of Russian Thinkers. Facts are provided on the process of starting work on the Dictionary publication. The moments, when the second V.V. Rozanov’s biographer E.F. Gollerbach and the publisher G.A. Lehman were included in work, are traced. The paper notes an element of rivalry between the thinker’s biographers.

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