Metadata: P. Z. Gorelik
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей.
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building; tel.: (812) 310-28-56; fax: (812) 310-61-48; e-mail: office@nlr.ru http://www.nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1478
- Title:
- P. Z. Gorelik
- Title (official language):
- ГОРЕЛИК П. З.
- Creator/accumulator:
- P. Z. Gorelik
- Date(s):
- 1942/2005
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- approx. 100 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
[The fonds is currently being processed; information given is as of 30 December 2014.] Materials housed in the fonds that pertain to Jewish history and culture may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) P. Z. Gorelik’s correspondence, mainly concerning Boris Slutskii: with D. S. Samoilov, on Samoilov’s publications, and reviews thereof, and his literary evenings; on evidence of public recognition of Slutskii’s literary oeuvre; on a review of G. Ia. Gorbovskii’s book Selected Works; on Jewish names; etc. (1940s-70s); with Z. Birkenblit, P. Z. Gorelik’s school friend, a veteran of the Second World War, and subsequently director of an orphanage in the city of Uglich; Birkenblit reports interesting facts from Slutskii’s life, and in particular, on Slutskii’s meeting with a “learned Jew” from Artemovsk (the former/present Bakhmut), and their dispute on Judaism; on the poet’s schoolboy years; his poetry; anti-Semitism and statements by the Pamiat’ society in the late 1980s in Uglich; and the Soviet government’s policies with regard to Jews (1960s-90s); with the poet’s brother E. A. Slutskii, on Boris Slutskii’s publications and the fate of his archive (1993-94); with the theatre studies scholar Viktoriia Levitina, who had been personally acquainted with the poet and who had emigrated to Israel, on the prospect of publishing “Jewish chapters from the poet’s war notes” in Israel; on Jewish themes in his work, and on an instance of the publication of a book by Arthur Koestler and its distribution in Israel; etc. (1997); with S. Likhtareva (the wife of Prof. Ia. E. Geguzin of Khar’kov University), who along with P. Z. Gorelik had been a classmate of Boris Slutskii’s in Khar’kov, about her friendship with the poet and the final period of his life; on assembling Slutskii’s artistic legacy; and on the collection of his verse and prose I Often Dream of Auschwitz Now (2002); with the writer E. M. Rzhevskaia on the state of Boris Slutskii’s health, and his death; on his work on the books Berlin and February is Crooked Roads [Fevral’ – krivye dorogi], etc. (undated); with the poet and literary scholar T. A. Bek on her meetings with Boris Slutskii (2004); and with N. K. Lichak (1944-48); N. M. Korzhavin (1963-64), A. P. Mezhirov (1977), A. M. Leont’ev (1987), E. K. L’vovskaia (2004), and others.
2) Materials of Boris Slutskii, including notebooks with notations of his poems and particular autograph manuscripts thereof (1950s, 1977, 2004); a translation of M. P. Trublaini’s story “The Bearded Seal” [“Lakhtak”] (1950s); letters from the front to his brother E. A. Slutskii (1940s); letters of various persons, including editorial staff members of the journal Znamia (1970s-80s); T. A. Zhirmunskaia (1984); Z. M. Rigel’ (1984); and others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Petr Zalmanovich Gorelik (1918-2015) was a military leader, commander of the armored train Kolomenskii rabochii [Kolomna Worker], writer, and literary scholar, and in particular, he was a specialist on the poetry of B. A. Slutskii. He was drafted into the Red Army in 1937. He graduated from artillery training, then from the M. V. Frunze Military Academy. From 1942 he served on fronts of the Second World War; and fought in the battles of Orel and the Dnieper, in military operations in Belorussia, the Vistula-Oder offensive, and the battle of Berlin. Along with the armored train, he was on the Baltic coast north of Berlin when victory came. He retired with the rank of colonel; and earned a doctorate in military science. He compiled several posthumous collections of the poetry of Boris Slutskii, some of which included the poet’s hitherto unpublished creative legacy; and he wrote literary-critical and bio-bibliographic studies on Slutskii. These editions include: I Often Dream of Auschwitz Now (Neva, 1999); On Others and Myself (Moscow: Vagrius, 2005); and Boris Slutskii: Reminiscences of Contemporaries (Neva, 2005). He also published memoirs, stories, and opinion pieces. He lived in St. Petersburg. His writings were published in the journals Zvezda, Neva, Voprosy literatury [Questions of Literature], Novoe vremia, and Novyi mir. He was a laureate of the Aleksandr Volodin prize.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bek, T. A.
- Birkenblit, Z.
- Geguzin, Ia. E.
- Gorbovskii, G. Ia.
- Gorelik, P. Z. (Petr Zalmanovich)
- Koestler, Arthur
- Korzhavin, N. M.
- L’vovskaia, E. K.
- Leont’ev, A. M.
- Levitina, Viktoriia
- Lichak, N. K.
- Likhtareva, S.
- Mezhirov, A. P.
- Rigel’, Z. M.
- Rzhevskaia, E. M.
- Samoilov, D.
- Slutskii, B.
- Slutskii, E. A.
- Trublaini, M. P.
- Zhirmunskaia, T. A.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-alphabetical principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary