Email this article 
A Prototype of Vadim Roshchin in the “White” Version of Alexey N. Tolstoy's Trilogy The Road to Calvary
- Authors: Sokolov B.V.1
-
Affiliations:
- Association of Researchers of the Russian Society
- Issue: Vol 26, No 1 (2021)
- Pages: 16-32
- Section: LITERARY CRITICISM
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/26073
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-1-16-32
Cite item
Full Text
Abstract
The article is devoted to the reconstruction of the idea of the “white” version of the second volume of A.N. Tolstoy's trilogy The Road to Calvary , created by the writer in the emigration in 1921-1923. This idea was fundamentally different from the one embodied by A.N. Tolstoy after his return to the USSR. Materials published in 1918 in the Rostov magazine Donskaya Volna ( Don Wave ) are used for the reconstruction. Those materials help to identify Colonel V.K. Manakin as a supposed prototype of one of the main characters, Vadim Roshchin, in the final chapters of the first volume of the trilogy and in the first chapters of the second volume of the “white” version. The prototype makes it feasible to reconstruct the possible idea of the second volume of the “white” version of The Road to Calvary . A.N. Tolstoy's notebooks are also used for the reconstruction. The reconstruction of A.N. Tolstoy’s plan turned out to be more logically consistent compared to the only existing Soviet version of the second and third volumes of the trilogy The Road to Calvary. Both Roshchin and Telegin, in the emigrant version of the first volume of the trilogy act as ideologists of the White Movement, find themselves in the White Armies of Southern Russia, and then in exile. The study shows that the transition of the main characters to the Red Movement in the Soviet version of The Road to Calvary is artistically unconvincing, since it does not correspond to the original plan of A.N. Tolstoy, embodied in the emigrant version of Sisters .
Keywords
About the authors
Boris V. Sokolov
Association of Researchers of the Russian Society
Author for correspondence.
Email: bvsokolov@yandex.ru
Dr. hab. of Philology, Ph.D. in History, senior researcher
11 Chusovskaya St, bldg 7, Moscow, 107207, Russian FederationReferences
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1922). Khozhdenie po mukam [The road to calvary]. Berlin, Moskva Publ. (In Russ.)
- Vorontsova, G.N. (2012). Tekstologicheskie printsipy izdaniya [The textual principles of the publication. In A.N Tolstoy, Khozhdenie po Mukam [The Road to Calvary] (pp. 400–411). Moscow, Nauka Publ. (In Russ.)
- Russkaja kniga [The Russian book]. (1921). Issue 6 (pp. 25–26). (In Russ.)
- Vorontsova, G.N. (2012). “Skvoz’ pyl’ i dym”: Pervyj roman o russkoy revoljutsii [“Through dust and smoke”: The first novel about the Russian revolution]. In A.N. Tolstoy, Khozhdenie po Mukam [The Road to Calvary] (pp. 303–399). Moscow, Nauka Publ. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1958–1961). Sobranie sochineniy [Compilation of works] (vols 5 & 10). Moscow, GiKHL Publ. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (2012). Khozhdenie po mukam [The road to calvary]. Moscow, Nauka Publ. (In Russ.)
- Donskaya Volna [Don’s Wave]. (1918, October 7). Issue 17. (In Russ.)
- Shinkarenko, N.V. (1918, October 7). Udarniki Manakina [Manakin’s udarniks]. Donskaya Volna [Don’s Wave], (17), 3–6. (In Russ.)
- G. F. (1918, October 7). Oktjabr’skiy perevorot i udarniki [The October coup d’état and udarniks]. Donskaya Volna [Don’s Wave], (17), 6. (In Russ.)
- Manakin, V. (1918, October 28). Udarnye batal’ony 1917 goda. Nabroski i vospominaniya [The attack battalions of 1917 (sketches and memoirs)]. Donskaya Volna [Don’s Wave], (20), 11–13. (In Russ.)
- Manakin, V. (1918, November 25). Poslednyaya russkaya stavka [The last Russian supreme command headquarters]. Donskaya Volna [Don’s Wave], (24), 11–13. (In Russ.)
- Litovskiy, O.S. (1958). Tak i bylo [And so it was] Moscow, Sovetskiy pisatel Publ. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1917, January 15). Zemskoy Sojuz. Iz dnevnika na 1917 god [The Zemstvo Union. From a diary for 1917]. Russkie Vedomosti, (12), 2. (In Russ.)
- Posadskiy, A.V. (2018). Polkovnik V.K. Manakin i Saratovskiy korpus. Epizod Grazhdanskoy voyny [Colonel V.K. Manakin and the Saratov Corps. The episode of the Civil War]. Moscow, AIRO-XXI Publ. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1923). V bredu [In delirium]. In A.N. Tolstoy, Likhie Gody: Rasskazy [Dashing Years: Stories]. Berlin, Petrograd, Moscow, Z. Grzhebin Publishers. (In Russ.)
- Tolstaya, E.D. (2006). “Degot’ ili med”: Aleksey N. Tolstoy kak neizvesnyy pisatel’ (1917–1923) [“Tar or honey”: Aleksey N. Tolstoy as an unknown writer (1917–1923)]. Moscow, RGGU Publ. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1922). Chetyre kartiny volshebnogo fonorya [Four pictures of the magic lantern]. Jar Ptitza, (6), 3–10. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1985). Dnevnik 1917–1936 gg. [Diary of 1917–1936]. In A.N. Tolstoy, Materialy i Issledovaniya [Materials and Studies] (pp. 340–390). Moscow, Nauka Publ. (In Russ.)
- Krandievskaya-Tolstaya, N.V. (1972). Vospominaniya [The memoirs]. Leningrad, Lenizdat Publ. (In Russ.)
- Tolstoy, A.N. (1965). Zapisnye knizhki [The Notebooks]. Literaturnoe Nasledstvo [Literary Legacy], 74, 277–352. (In Russ.)
- Mikheev, M.Ju. (2009). Aleksandr Gladkov o poetakh, sovremennikakh i – nemnogo o sebe [Alexander Gladkov about poets, contemporaries, and some words about himself]. 2nd ed. Moscow, YASK Publ. (In Russ.)
- Stepun, F.A. (1992). Vstrechi i razmyshleniya [Meetings and reflections]. London, Overseas Publications. (In Russ.)
- Krandievskaya-Tolstaya, N.V. (1922). Ot lukavogo. Kniga stikhov [From evil. The book of poems]. Berlin, Helikon. (In Russ.)
- Bulgakov, M.A. (1989). P’esy 30-kh godov [The plays of 1930s]. Leningrad, Iskusstvo Publ. (In Russ.)
