Gary Kern collection of Veniamin Kaverin, 1970-1989.

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Gary Kern collection of Veniamin Kaverin, 1970-1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702182101

The collection consists of correspondence between Kern and Kaverin, one photograph of Kaverin and one of Kern, and other papers related to Veniamin Kaverin. The correspondence consists of 35 letters from Kaverin to Kern and copies and drafts of 21 letters from Kern to Kaverin. Topics addressed in the correspondence include Russian literature of the 1920s (especially IUrii Tynianov), Kaverin's memoir V starom dome and Kern's translations. Other papers include copies of printed material related to Kaverin.

0.42 linear ft. (1 box)

eng,

rus,

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8026111

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Kaverin, V. (Veniamin), 1902-1989

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Tynianov, IUrii Nikolaevich

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Kern, Gary.

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Veniamin Kaverin (born Veniamin Aleksandrovich Zil'bur, 1902-1989) was a Russian author of novels including Khudozhnik Neizvesten (Artist Unknown) and Dva Kapitana (Two Captains). In the early 1920s he was a member of the Serapion Brotherhood in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), a group that advocated preservation of the ideals of the Russian literary intellegentsia. Kaverin played a prominent role in the liberalization of Soviet literary life, balancing the art of his writing with the de...