Ivanov, Evgeny Platonovich

He was born and raised in a family where both father and mother were "literary" people, mother wrote notes about theater and music, father (a merchant who became a notary) satirical poems and epigrams. Mother, nee Suslova, was a cousin of A.P. Suslova . In Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanov worked as a notary public in his father’s office, while simultaneously publishing stories and plays in local publications (two of them were staged in the 1909-1910 season). Since 1910 , the family moved to Moscow , where Ivanov took up professional literature, gradually becoming a fashion playwright; his dramas At the Cage of Lions and The Humans (both 1914 ) enjoyed particular success.

In 1913 - 1914 published the magazine “Theater in the cartoons”, which in addition to the chronicle and reviews (not only to performances, but also to concerts, exhibitions, new books) published works of art - in particular, the first publication of Mayakovsky ’s poem “Violin and a little nervously” (with Mayakovsky Ivanov contacted a lot in 1914-1915; four cartoons by Mayakovsky on Ivanov and a summary of Ivanov’s oral memories of Mayakovsky at a literary meeting in 1934 ) were preserved ^[1] .

In 1915 he entered the Moscow Archaeological Institute and graduated from it. For most of his future life, Ivanov was engaged in ethnography, the study of Russian folk theater, ceremonies, etc.

In 1918, he organized at the cafe of the All-Russian Union of Stage Artists daily artistic performances of the “showcase of arts”, where he himself was both a director and hosted the conference ^[2] .

In 1924 , he was one of the organizers of the First Scientific and Ethnographic Theater, in which ancient Russian rites and rituals were reconstructed.

In 1937 , he prepared and released the book-album “Russian Lubok”, later worked on the collection “Ornaments of the Peoples of the USSR”, the publication of which was prevented by the outbreak of World War II . The subject of Ivanov's special scientific interest was companionship , which is understood very broadly.

The best-known work of Ivanov is his compilation of folk sayings, published in 1982 by A. P. Chudakov under the title “Apt Moscow Word”: the collection contains words, expressions and whole speech fragments recorded from the urban population and reproducing social and professional features speech.

He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery .

• Ivanov E.P. Russian Folk Pub . With 90 plain and 13 colorful reproductions. M .: IZOGIZ, - 1937.

Russian writers. 1800 - 1917. Biographical Dictionary. T. 2: G - K. M.: Big Russian Encyclopedia. - 1992 - pp. 380-381