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Name: Nikolai Mikhailovich Aristov (Nik. Arens) and His Siberian Pinkerton

Authors: Yu. P. Zarodova

State Regional Art Museum “Liberov Center”, Omsk, Russian Federation

In the section Siberian Writers and Siberia in the Russian Literature of the 20th Century

Abstract: Based on the study of inaccessible archival sources, the article reconstructs the biographical details of the life of the forgotten poet and prose writer Nikolai Mikhailovich Aristov (Nik. Arens). An overview of the “сinematic novel” by N. Arens “The Adventures of Evgeny Stal”, which was published in Omsk in 1924, is unfamiliar to modern researchers. The adven- ture novel about the adventures of a red scout in the White Guard rear is set in 1919 in Sibe- ria, which was engulfed in the Civil War. A separate issue reliably tells about the events that took place in the city of Omsk, at that time the capital of “white” Russia. The novel was written as an example of new Soviet literature, which met the ideological order for a mass book formulated in 1923 by N. I. Bukharin in an article on Red Pinkerton.

Keywords: Nikolai Arens, “сinematic novel” of the 1920s, “Red Pinkerton”, Omsk writers, Civil War in Siberia

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