Overview
Letters of Nikolai Kliuev to Anatolii Kravchenko, Lidiia Kravchenko and Viacheslav Shishkov.
Dates
- Creation: 1932-1936
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in Russian.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)Autograph manuscript letters from Nikolai Kliuev, including 3 letters from Kliuev to his lover, artist Anatolii IAr-Kravchenko, 1 letter to Kravshenko's mother Lidiia Eduardovna Kravchenko, and 1 letter to Siberian writer Viacheslav IAkovlevich Shishkov.
Letters primarily concern terrible living conditions in exile, lack of food and money, his poetry and his feelings for Anatolii IAr-Kravchenko.
Biographical / Historical
Nikolai Alekseevich Kliuev, 1887-1937 [Николай Алексеевич Клюев] was a Russian poet, one of the leaders of the "peasant poets" movement. In 1933 he was arrested for the negative portrayal of the Soviet regime in his poem The burned ruins [Погорельщина] and exiled to the region of Narymsk in Siberia. In 1937 he was arrested for the second time and executed.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Physical Location
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Provenance:
From the library of Alec Flegon.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2010M-63. Purchased with Bayard Livingston Kilgour and Kate Gray Kilgour Fund; received: 2011 January 14.
Processing Information
Processed by: Irina Klyagin
- Title
- Kliuev, Nikolai Alekseevich, 1887-1937. Nikolai Kliuev letters, 1932-1936: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02160
Repository Details
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