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You know, I had a heated argument the other day about Russian Gothic. Foreigners want it to be - curiosity and all that stuff. Russian also want them to have a gothic - is the question of prestige
When I say that Russian gothic is about the same as ye olde english cyberpunk they look at me with incomprehension and resentment, both
A very interesting era is considered in the Red Specters - the 20s)
The Soviets had not yet shot half of their creative intelligentsia.
Some of the people had the highest expectations of what was happening, just like in the 60s in your country or in the USA. There has even been a sexual revolution of sorts, adjusted for local flavor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_and_Sofa
So...Valery Bryusov is a Russian symbolist. He made the decision not to emigrate after the Revolution. A warm place with lectures and a pension awaited him. By the 20s he had almost stopped writing, and when he was writing, these were poems with the following names: "The world of the electron", "The world of N dimensions", "To the portrait of Leibniz", "The palace of centromachines"
I would replace his story "In the Mirror" with "When I awoke".
similar to "The Author Tale" by L.A. Lewis from Vault Advent calendar
Aleksandr Chayanov is a scientist who dabbled in the composition of fairy tales in the spirit of Hoffmann. I suppose they shot him just for the sake of company.
Mikhail Bulgakov is the sacred cow of Russian literature. It is considered bad form to dislike him. I find that he did more serious damage to the psyche of the Russian people than "The Lord of the Rings".
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is perhaps more Kafka than Gothic. But after all, Kafka's place of action of one of the novels is the castle, which means that it is also Gothic.
Aleksandr Grin is the author of "Crimson Sails', the most romantic work in Russian literature. Again, in the eyes of the Russians.
Based on "The Gray Motor Car", the film 'Mister - Designer' was shot, which is considered the first Soviet horror film, a dozen more films from the 60s to 90th claim this honor
you can also read "Ratcatcher" which was filmed by the Yugoslavs
Georgy Peskov is a woman
Emigrant, author of "Evil Eternity", about which they write:
"Love for a vampire doll, conversations about Atlantis and Gondwana, the attack of a bearded witch, "the way of the serpent", immortality and methods of poisoning the soul"
Pavel Perov is an emigrant to the United States, the owner of the animation film company Peroff Pictures Inc.
a few works in Russian that can pass for gothic:
1) "Viy", "A Terrible Vengeance"
2) The Song of Triumphant Love
3)
The Family of the Vourdalak
4)
The Queen of Spades
1-3 more have not been translated into English but we will somehow survive it
There is a female counterpart to Dennis Wheatley called Vera Kryzhanovskaia for example
To Helrunar
A_Demonological_Novel_
for those who are strongly interested in Alexander Grin
sorry if there are a lot of words
