Evgeny Anichkov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Evgeny Anichkov

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1866

Place of Birth: Borovichi, Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1937

Profession: folklorist, literary historian

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Evgeny Anichkov

  • Evgeny Vasilyevich Anichkov (Russian: ????´??? ????´?????? ???´????, 14 January 1866, Borovichi, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire, — 22 October 1937, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) was a Russian literary critic and historian who specialised in the Slavic folklore and mythology, as well as their relation to and use in the Russian literature. His 1905 book The Ritual Spring Song in the West and With the Slavic Peoples (???????? ????????? ????? ?? ?????? ? ? ??????) won him the Lomonosov Prize in 1907.
  • His magnum opus Paganism and Ancient Rus (????????? ? ??????? ????) came out in 1914. Anichkov's numerous critical essays (on Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont and Fyodor Sologub among others) came out in two acclaimed collections, Literary Images and Ideas (???????????? ?????? ? ??????, 1904) and The Forefathers and the Contemporariries in the Western and Russian Literatures (???????? ? ???????????? ?? ?????? ? ? ???, 1910).
  • He also edited the Complete Works by N.A.
  • Dobrolyubov (in 9 volumes, 1911—1913), and authored numerous articles for the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. Anichkov taught at the Bestuzhev Courses for women, as well as the Saint Petersburg University where in 1902-1917 he was the head of the Western Literatures department.
  • A respected Shakespearean scholar, he regularly visited Great Britain (where at Oxford University he read lectures on Slavic folklore and Russian mythology), as well as France.
  • In Paris, with Maksim Kovalevsky, he co-founded the Russian High School of Social Studies. The 1917 Revolution found him in France where he stayed for a while before moving in 1918 to Yugoslavia, to lecture at the Belgrade and Skopje Universities.
  • His book The New Russian Poetry (????? ??????? ??????), an extensive survey of the book on Russian Symbolism, Acmeism and Futurism, came out in Berlin in 1923.
  • It was followed by Christianity and Ancient Rus (???????????? ? ??????? ????, Prague, 1924).

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