I. G. Pavlov’s Poetic Thought in the Late Soviet Intellectual History
Preface to the Publication
Abstract
The introductory text precedes the publication of the article by Severodvinsk poet, philologist, and journalist Ilia Georgievich Pavlov (1954–1992), titled Tyutchev’s Mountains and Waters: Myth and Symbol in Tyutchev’s Lyrics, written in 1984. The creative legacy of I. G. Pavlov is not as widely recognized not only by the general public but also by researchers of late Soviet intellectual history, compared to iconic figures like A. F. Losev, S. S. Averintsev, or V. V. Bibikhin. This relative obscurity is largely due to Pavlov’s life in a closed military city and his early death; his poetry collections and a selection of three poems published in Le Messager journal in 1992 appeared posthumously. Nevertheless, Pavlov consistently sought access to relevant philosophical, religious, and philological literature — largely succeeding during his studies at Petrozavodsk University, where the published research was prepared — and aimed to establish connections with Russian and foreign cultural circles. He corresponded with S. S. Averintsev and had a telephone conversation with him, as well as maintained dialogue and correspondence with Yu. M. Kublanovsky, who assisted in publishing poems in the émigré Le Messager. The article Tyutchev’s Mountains and Waters is published for the first time, based on a typescript from the archive of the poet’s mother. The version offered to readers was written by I. G. Pavlov based on a term paper and, according to his mother’s note on the typescript, was submitted to the Voprosy Literatury journal but remained unpublished during Soviet times due to its religious content. In the introductory text, I. I. Pavlov, the poet’s son and the publisher of the typescript, considers I. G. Pavlov’s creative legacy in the context of late Soviet intellectual history and evaluates the significance of Tyutchev’s Mountains and Waters within I. G. Pavlov’s religious-philosophical worldview as it presented in his poems.
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