E. V. Kuznetsova

Literary Mask of Angelika Safyanova: Genesis and Literary Context

The article analyzes the poetic mask of Angelika Safyanova — a literary mystification by Lev Nikulin — in the context of other famous literary hoaxes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Nikulin’s experience is compared with the literary masks of Kozma Prutkov, G.P. Danilevsky (who created the mask of Evgenia Sarafano...