forgotten superstars - conclusion

[Francoise Rosset]

Marcus, do include Sibelan Forrester's suggestion of Mirra 
Lokhvitskaia and several other women. Certainly Lokhvitskaia was 
hugely popular (I gather her funeral was a major event) and now she is 
barely known.

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:01:06 -0700
  Marcus Levitt <levitt at COLLEGE.USC.EDU> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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