Abstract
The article examines the circumstances associated with the use of “cryptonyms” in the publication of A.A. Blok's resolutions on poets, carried out by P.N. Medvedev in 1923.The surname of the paleontologist and writer A.N. Ryabinin, one of the applicants for joining the Petrograd branch of the All–Russian Union of Poets, is revealed. For the first time, the full handwritten text of the collective document stored in the RO IRLI with the resolutions of the members of the Admissions Committee (A.A. Blok, M.L. Lozinsky, N.S. Gumilev, M.A. Kuzmin) about his book of poems “After the Thunderstorm” (1918) is introduced into scientific circulation. The emphasis is placed on the aesthetic principles of Blok's evaluation of the reviewed poems. The characteristics of scientific, literary and social activities of A.N. Ryabinin are compared with Block's ideas about the creative potential of the Russian scientific and technical intelligentsia and its role in the transformation of Russia. The positive reaction of A.M. Remizov to the work by A.N. Ryabinin is analyzed, aspects of their possible creative contacts are outlined.
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