Rilke and Russia. Articles and publications

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the Great German Poet of the 20th century ("German Orpheus" called his Marina Tsvetaeva), not only as a wonderful and the finest lirik. Completely special, in many ways a unique episode, belonging to the history of Russian-German cultural intersections, - Passionate love Rilke to Russia, his trips to our country (1899 and 1990), meetings and correspondence with Russian cultural figures (among them - Lion Tolstoy , Anton Chekhov, Leonid Pasternak, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva), Russian language and Russian art, translations of Russian authors, finally - poems and prose of the poet, who reflected his passion to Russia.
Konstantin Azadovsky, the historian of the Russian and Western European culture, for several decades collected and investigated the materials dedicated to the topic of "Rilke in Russia". The collection offered to the attention of readers unites his chosen works, reflecting, on the one hand, the Rusophilic quest for Rilke himself, on the other hand, the perception of Rilke and its poetry in the Russian cultural environment of the first quarter of the 20th century