РЕДАКТОР ≪РОССИИ≫: БИОГРАФИЯ И. Г. ЛЕЖНЕВА – АРХИВНЫЕ ДОКУМЕНТЫ И ПУБЛИКАЦИИ. ЧАСТЬ 3

Abstract

The article considers the archival materials and the printed resources related to the major milestones of the professional biography of I.G. Lezhnev, the writer and editor of the “Russia” magazine. The ideological work of I.G. Lezhnev in the first part of the 1920s connected with the issuing of “Russia”, the magazine which belonged to the “Smena Vekh” ideological project, can be understood through his publications in this magazine, his letters to N.V. Ustryalov published by M.S. Agurskiy as well as through the resources in the Russian archives. The sequence of events that has ended up in the closure of the “Russia” magazine and the case of deporting its editor I. G. Lezhnev “beyond the USSR” are revealed in the documents stored in the funds of the Russian State Archives of the Social and Political History and the Central Archives of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Having researched the information in the documents of the I.G. Lezhnev fund in the Russian State Archives of Literature and Art, the author of the present article analyses the professional duties of I.G. Lezhnev – the staff member of the Trade Mission of the USSR in Berlin. The article provides an overview of the resources connected with I.G. Lezhnev’s return from Germany to the USSR, and of the essential role of his “extended membership application” for joining the Party, of his autobiographical and repenting “The Notes of a Contemporary” which in many ways became life-defining for his author; attention was also drawn to his work in the “Pravda” newspaper and other milestones of his life. For the first time, the documents from private collections have been perused – those detailed materials pertaining to the publication in the USSR of Lezhnev’s book “The Notes of a Contemporary”.