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Whose works we read under the name of Lev N. Gumilev?
Andrey Saraev
Vostok/Oriens '2016, №3
The paper considers the question of Lev N. Gumilev’s written heritage. L.N. Gumilev is one of the more famous and at the same time controversial Russian historians of the second part of the twentieth century. But a few of scholars have paid attention to the quality of the reprints of his works. Nevertheless there are inexplicable variant readings between the reprints and the first editions of Gumilev’s works. While all of the reprints are posthumous, we should know what changes in them belong to the author. In some cases such changes were made by the author himself. In other cases these textual changes were made by the editors. In few examples I was not able to find the reasons of variant readings. In addition, there are many errata in Gumilev’s works reprints which are reproduced in each following edition. At the moment there is no other way to refer to Gumilev’s works than to use their first editions.
Keywords: L.N. Gumilev, first edition, reprint, variant readings, manuscript, “Khunnu”, “Ancient turks”, “From Russ to Russia”, “The end and start again”
Pages: С. 96–115
