Society of Lovers of the Russian Word

Society of Lovers of the Russian Word 

a literary and scholarly society at Moscow University from 1811 to 1930, except for the period from 1837 to 1858. Among the writers speaking at its meetings were A. K. Tolstoy, I. S. Tur-genev, A. A. Fet, F. M. Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy, and I. A. Bunin. The society’s activity was reflected in its publications: Studies of the SLR W (parts 1–20, 1812–21), Works in Prose and Verse (parts 1–7, 1822–28), V. I. Dal”s Explanatory Dictionary … (parts 1–4, 1863–66), Songs Collected by P. V. Kireevskii (fascs. 1–10, 1860–74; new series, fascs. 1–2, 1911–29), and the collections Turgenev and His Times (1923) and Pushkin (vols. 1–2, 1924–30).

REFERENCE

Sakulin, P. N. “Obshchestvo liubitelei rossiiskoi slovesnosti.” Pechat’ i revoliutsiia, 1927, book 7.