forgotten superstars - conclusion

[oprokop at TEMPLE.EDU]

I don't see in this list Mikhail Zagoskin who was enormously 
popular in 1820s and 1830s (and stole the title of 
Khlestakov's novel ;)

Olia


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>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:01:06 -0700
>From: Marcus Levitt <levitt at COLLEGE.USC.EDU>  
>Subject: [SEELANGS] forgotten superstars - conclusion  
>To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Thanks to the many of you who responded so quickly.  Here's 
a
>compilation of the names suggested (in no strict order):
> 
>Vladislav Ozerov, Vladimir Benediktov, Nestor Kukol’nik, 
Alexander
>Druzhinin, Vsevolod Garshin, Gleb Uspenskii, Konstantin 
Fofanov,
>Anastasiia Verbitskaia, Leonid Andreev, Mikhail 
Artsybashev, Pavel
>Mel’nikov-Pecherskii, Semen Nadson, Petr Boborykin, Nikolai
>Pomialovskii, Pavel Zasodimskii, Fedor Reshetnikov, 
Aleksandr
>Amfiteatrov, Sergei Gorodetskii, Vladimir Nemerovich-
Danchenko, Dmitrii
>Tsenzor, Lidiia Charskaia, Apollon Maikov, Aleksei 
Apukhtin, Konstantin
>Sluchevskii, Demian Bednyi, Viacheslav Shishkov, Petr 
Pavlenko,Igor’
>Serverianin, Aleksandr Sheller-Mikhailov, Semen Babaevskii, 
Ivan
>Shevtsov, Maksim Gorky, Fedor Gladkov, Panteleimon Romanov, 
Boris
>Pil’niak, Marietta Shaginian, Lidia Seifullina, Boris 
Polevoi, Eduard
>Asadov, Anatolii Gladilin, Vladimir Orlov.
> 
>(I left off Fet as someone I think most Russians have not 
forgotten...
>But as some of you suggested this whole list has an element 
of personal
>choice; obviously, it's not simply a question of some sort 
of hierarchy
>of talent.  We scholars, of course, do not forget!, 
although I admit I
>had to check on some of the first names in this list.)
> 
>Perhaps we should organize a conference on the topic 
of "forgotten
>superstars"!  Quite a rich cohort.
> 
>Thanks again,
>Marcus
> 
>
>
> 
> 
>Marcus Levitt, Associate Professor
>Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts 
and
>Sciences
>Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
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