A discussion about the Pushkin Encyclopedia in the 1930s
The article, relying on archival sources, covers the chronology and content of the discussion that arose in 1933 around the Pushkin Encyclopedia project, prepared by Moscow researchers headed by M. Tsyavlovsky. The structure of the publication, its addressing, the principles of compiling the vocabulary - these are the main points around which a dispute between Muscovites and Leningraders was built. The minutes of the open meeting of the Pushkin Committee of the USSR Academy of Sciences of November 27, 1933 in Leningrad, presented as an appendix to the article, continues - three decades later - the publication of Moscow materials, carried out by I. Chistova, covering the work on the encyclopedia project in the fall of 1933.