Владимир Маяковский в публицистике харбинского поэта Василия Логинова

Abstract

The aim of the study is to find an answer to the question of how the poetry, personality and fate of Vladimir Mayakovsky reflected in the journalistic heritage of the Harbin poet, prose writer and journalist Vasily Stepanovich Loginov (1891 – 1945/1946?). The study is novel in that it introduces into scientific use four pieces of correspondence by Loginov in the Harbin newspaper “Gong-Bao” containing references or detailed judgments about Mayakovsky. The perception and assessment of Vladimir Mayakovsky among first-generation emigrants from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have not been sufficiently studied. As a result, it is shown that the politically and aesthetically conservative writer of the first generation of the Russian émigré community Vasily Loginov knew well and highly appreciated Mayakovsky’s creative work, despite the decisive rejection of Mayakovsky’s political position and programme of aesthetic renewal. This can be explained by the fact that so many different writers belonged to the same cultural field of the Russian literature of the 1910s, which included diverse influences, from Valery Bryusov to the futurists and poets of the Satyricon magazine circle. It is also shown that Mayakovsky did not have a significant influence on the poetics of Vasily Loginov’s poems, however, upon careful reading, one can find echoes of Mayakovsky’s pre-revolutionary poetry in Loginov’s first poetry book (the year of its publication is also specified in the paper).