{"id":1796,"date":"2025-08-28T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hist-geo.ru\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:07:27","slug":"arsenova-t-a-boris-ryzhij-v-nizhnem-novgorode-rekonstrukciya-epizoda-iz-poslednego-goda-zhizni-poeta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hist-geo.ru\/en\/2025\/08\/28\/arsenova-t-a-boris-ryzhij-v-nizhnem-novgorode-rekonstrukciya-epizoda-iz-poslednego-goda-zhizni-poeta\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenova T. An. Boris Ryzhy in Nizhny Novgorod (An Episode from the Last Year of the Poet\u2019s Life)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tatiana An. Arsenova<\/strong>
\nInstitute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, \u0415katerinburg)
\nORCID: 0000-0001-9561-2445
\nE-mail: chelovekmira@mail.ru<\/a><\/p>\n

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UDC 929
\nDOI: 10.58529\/2782-6511-2025-4-2-60-83<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong>. The article presents an attempt to reconstruct one episode from the biography of the poet Boris Ryzhy in the context of the last year of his life \u2014 his only trip to Nizhny Novgorod. It took place in May 2000 (a year before his suicide) and was timed to coincide with the literary festival with the conference \u201cAnother Province\u201d. The festival\u2019s objectives included a revision of the state of contemporary literature and the position of authors in Russian regions at the end of the first post-Soviet decade; the issue of creative prospects of a \u201cprovincial\u201d writer, resources and limitations imposed on his activities by geographical and socio-cultural remoteness from the capital\u2019s literary process with its infrastructural advantages was problematized. The article shows that the festival\u2019s agenda was relevant for B. Ryzhy in the last year of his life as it concerned the pressing issue of planning for the near future: to stay in Yekaterinburg or to look for an opportunity to move to one of the capitals. The author puts forward a hypothesis that the answer to this question \u2014 the decision to stay in his hometown \u2014 came to Ryzhy after his trip to Rotterdam (it took place a month after Nizhny Novgorod). To reconstruct the episode, the author collected recollections and photographs of festival participants; clarified the circumstances of the festival, its agents and approximate agenda, as well as details of Ryzhy\u2019s stay in Nizhny Novgorod, including exact addresses in the city he visited (materials for possible literary excursions around the city); identified newspaper and online periodical publications dedicated to the festival; analyzed verbal portraits of Boris Ryzhy in Nizhny Novgorod, compiled by Sergei Kostyrko, Alexey Golitsyn, Kirill Kobrin, Dmitry Zernov, Maria Kuznetsova, as well as Ryzhy\u2019s self-portrait in the setting of the Nizhny Novgorod festival from his prose \u201cRotterdam Diary\u201d; made conclusions about the poet\u2019s style of creative behavior and his psychological state in 2000.<\/p>\n

KEYWORDS<\/strong>: Boris Ryzhy, literary Nizhny Novgorod, festival \u201cAnother Province\u201d, creative behavior, poet\u2019s image, literary process, province and the capital, Dutch theme in the works of Boris Ryzhy, Boris Ryzhy\u2019s Nizhny Novgorod addresses, Boris Ryzhy\u2019s wardrobe<\/p>\n

For citation:<\/em> Arsenova T. An. [Boris Ryzhy in Nizhny Novgorod (An Episode from the Last Year of the Poet\u2019s Life)]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2025, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 60\u201383. DOI: 10.58529\/2782-6511-2024-4-1-60-83 (In Russian).<\/p>\n

Received 10 October 2024
\nAccepted 15 May 2024<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2025 The Author<\/p>\n

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