Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2020-18-365-383 Articles Sergey Durylin and “Literary Heritage” Panov Sergey I. editor@litfact.ru 2020 S.N. Durylin; “Literary Heritage”; I.S. Zil'bershtein; history of Soviet scholarship; study of cultural heritage; Slavophiles; archival materials; correspondence Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The paper considers the cooperation between S.N. Durylin (1886 –1954), a scholar, writer, cultural historian, and the academic book series “Literary Heritage”. Durylin prepared several big publications for the series, among them a fundamental research “Russian Writers Visiting Goethe in Weimar” (1932; 30 academic sheets). The process of editing, as well as the principles of editorial work with authors and materials characteristic of “Literary Heritage” are uncovered in Durylin’s correspondence with the editorial staff, in particular with I.S. Zil'bershtein. The paper provides information on their joint projects that remained unrealized, for example on the series of propagandistic popular educational books that “Literary Heritage” tried to launch during the Great Patriotic (Soviet-German) war: Durylin prepared for this series several works dedicated to the XIXth century Russian writers, including Slavophiles. Durylin’s experience in “Literary Heritage” attracts attention to the difficulties pre-revolutionary intellectuals were facing with in the process of accommodation to the Soviet reality in 1930s-1950s. 1. Dmitriev, S. Podhod dolzhen byt’ konkretno-istoricheskii [The Approach Must Be Concrete and Historical]. Voprosy Literatury, 1969, no 12, 73 –84. (In Russ.) 2. Durylin, S.N. V svoem uglu [In One’s Own Corner], ed. by N. Toropova, introd. by G.E. Pomerantseva. Moscow, Molodaia gvardiia Publ., 2006. 879 p. (In Russ.) 3. S. Zil'bershtein. Shtrikhi k portretu. K 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia [I.S. Zil'bershtein Birth Centenary. Touches to the Portrait], ed. by N.B. Volkov et al. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2006. 518 p. (In Russ.) 4. Moteiunaite, V. Gosudarstvennaia sluzhba slavianofilov i literaturnoe sluzhenie demokratov: kontseptsiia S.N. Durylina [State Service of the Slavophiles and Literary Service of the Democrats: S.N. Durylin’s Concept]. Chiny i muzy: Sbornik statei [Ranks and Muses: A Collection of Critical Essays], ed. by S.N. Gus'kov. Saint-Petersburg; Tver', Marina Batasova Publ., 2017, pp. 41 –54. (In Russ.) 5. Panov, S.I. Neizdannaia stat'ia S.N. Durylina o  stikhotvorenii  A.  Viazemskogo “Orfograficheskoe zamechanie” [S.N. Durylin’s Unpublished Article about P.A.  Vyazemsky’s  Poem “A Remark on Orthography”]. Literaturnyi fakt, 2018, no 10,   pp. 321 –354. (In Russ.) 6. Timenchik, Roman. Rhinocéros. Nenapechatannaia stat'ia I. Sergievskogo ob Akhmatovoi [Rhinocéros. Unpublished I. Sergievskii’s Article on Akhmatova]. Zamechatel'noe shestidesiatiletie. Ko dniu rozhdeniia Andreia Nemzera [Remarkable Sixtieth Anniversary. On the Occasion of Andrei Nemzer’s Birthday]. Moscow, Izdatel'skie resheniia publ., 2017, vol. 2, pp. 96 –119. (In Russ.)