Bazanov, Vasily Grigorievich

He graduated from the Galich school II level with a pedagogical bias (1927). As a schoolboy, he collaborated with the regional newspaper Plow and the Hammer. In 1928 he entered the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute , then transferred to the department of social and literary sciences of the pedagogical faculty of the University of Nizhny Novgorod (1931). He studied at the graduate school on the history of Russian literature at the Leningrad State Institute of Speech Culture, then received a direction in Petrozavodsk , where he worked as head of the department of KSPI (1934-1940). Since 1934 - a senior researcher, since 1944 - the head of the department of folklore of the Karelian Research Institute. Founder and first dean (1940-1948) of the Faculty of History and Philology of KFGU . During World War II, he was evacuated to Syktyvkar . Since 1946 - member of the CPSU (b) . Doctor of Philology (1948), professor. In 1948 - 1952 he headed the department of literature at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian-Finnish Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences . Since the 1950s, he worked in Leningrad , headed the department of journalism at Leningrad State University . Editor-in-chief of the journal Russian Literature (1958-1968). In 1965-1975 , he was director of the IRLI of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

He was a member of the editorial board of the Karelia almanac and the board of the Writers Union of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Member of the editorial boards of the academic series The Library of Russian Folklore of Karelia (1947-1948) and Monuments of Russian Folklore (1960-1981), member of the editorial boards of the Russian Folklore series (1956-1972), Russian Literature and Folklore (1970— 1981), " Literary heritage " (1971-1981). Prepared editions by F. N. Glinka (1957, “Selected Works”) and “Poetry of Peasant Holidays” (1970) in the large series “ The Poet 's Libraries ”; F. N. Glinka (1951, "Poems"), V. F. Raevsky (1952) and A. I. Odoevsky (1954) in the small series "The Poet's Library" . He also prepared editions of the works of V. A. Zhukovsky (“Poems”; 1956, jointly with A. G. Dementiev ), K. F. Ryleyev (“Poems. Articles. Essays. Memos. Letters. Letters”, 1956), N. A. Klyuyev (The Favorites, 1981) and others. He supervised the preparation of the publication of the Complete Works by F. M. Dostoevsky .

Son Nikolai (1934-2003) - demographer, candidate of medical sciences, grandchildren Andrei (born 1960), economist, candidate of economic sciences, and P.N. Bazanov (born 1969), historian.

Monographs

• “From the Literary Polemic of the 1860s” (Petrozavodsk, 1941)
• "Poetry of Pechora" (Syktyvkar, 1943)
• “Behind the barbed wire: from the diary of a collector of folk literature” (Petrozavodsk, 1945)
• “Karelian poems by Fedor Glinka” (Petrozavodsk, 1945)
• “Folk literature of Karelia” (Petrozavodsk, 1947)
• “Free society of lovers of Russian literature” (Petrozavodsk, 1949)
• "AT. F. Raevsky. New materials ”(L.-M., 1949)
• "P. I. Yakushkin ”(Oryol, 1950)
• “Decembrist poets (K. F. Ryleyev, V. K. Kyukhelbeker, A. I. Odoevsky)” (M.-L., 1950)
• “The Poetic Heritage of Fyodor Glinka (1810-1830s)” (Petrozavodsk, 1950)
• "Decembrists in Chisinau." (Chisinau, 1951)
• "Essays on Decembrist literature" (vols. 1-2, M., 1953; M.-L., 1961)
• “Karelia in Russian literature and folklore of the 19th century” (Petrozavodsk, 1955)
• “50 years of the Pushkin House (1905-1955)” (1956, editor)
• “The Scientific Republic” (M.-L., 1964)
• “Soviet Literary Studies in 50 Years” (1968, editor)
• "Dostoevsky and his time" (1971, with G. M. Friedlander )
• “Studies on poetics and stylistics” (1972, jointly with V.V. Vinogradov and G.M. Friedlander)
• “From Folklore to the Folk Book” (L., 1973; 2nd ed. 1983)
• “Russian revolutionary democrats and national studies” (L., 1974)
• “The Cultural Heritage of Ancient Russia: Origins, Formation, Traditions” (1976, editor)
• “Russian-Bulgarian folklore and literary relations” (vols. 1-2, 1976-1977, editor)
• "Myth - folklore - literature" (1978, editor)
• “Poetry of the Russian North: Karelian articles and essays” (Petrozavodsk, 1981)
• “Sergei Yesenin and Peasant Russia” (L., 1982; review)
• “The Creativity of I. S. Sokolov-Mikitov” (1983, collaborated with P. P. Shirmakov; posm.)
• "Folklore. Russian poetry of the early XX century "(1988; see)
• “From the Homeland: About the Poetry of Nikolai Klyuyev” (1990; review)

Articles

• “On the poetry of F. N. Glinka” // “Literary critic”, 1938, No. 9-10
• "The problem of the aesthetic relationship of folklore to reality in N. G. Chernyshevsky" // "Russian literature", 1958, No. 1
• “New people or nihilists?” (To the history of Russian democratic ethnic studies) ”//“ Russian Literature ”, 1959, No. 2
• “The poem“ To whom it is good to live in Russia ”and the peasant political eloquence” // Russian Literature, 1959, No. 3
• "Dobrolyubov and national studies" // "Russian literature", 1962, No. 2
• “Notes of a folklorist” // Russian Literature, 1966, No. 2
• “The“ Capital ”of K. Marx in the Years of“ Going to the People ”in Russia (1872–1875)” // Russian Literature, 1968, No. 3

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975).

• Abramkin V.M., Lurie A.N. Writers of Leningrad: bibliographic index. - L., 1964;
• Scientists of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences: biographical dictionary. - Petrozavodsk, 1999;
• Karelia: encyclopedia : in 3 tons / hl. ed. A.F. Titov . T. 1: A - J. - Petrozavodsk: Publishing House PetroPress, 2007. - P. 142 - ISBN 978-5-8430-0123-0
• Bazanov Vasily Grigoryevich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

• Bazanov, Vasily Grigoryevich // Brief Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A.A. Surkov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1962-1978.
• Profile of Vasily Grigoryevich Bazanov on the official website of the RAS
• Biography on the IRLI website
• Biography on the website of the Institute of Nuclear Research
• Page on the website of the Karelian National Library
• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Personal Archival Fund