Article

Name: A.P. Zhilina’s album as a source of new data on P.P. Ershov’s creative biography and the cultural environment of Tobolsk in the 1839 – 1841 years

Authors: Savchenkova Tatyana Pavlovna

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper considers the unknown autographs of P.P. Ershov, N.A. Chizhov, I.I. Pushchin, and N.D. Fonvizina from the album of A.P. Zhilina, a Tobolsk official’s daughter. The analysis of the album records makes it possible to see the cultural life and the artistic tastes of the Siberian intellectuals in the first half of the 19th century and to present this document as a significant source for writing P.P. Ershov’s scientific biography.

Keywords: album, ershov, family archive, creative biography, autograph, lyrical cycle

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