THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN FORMALISM AS A PROVINCIAL-NEWSPAPER LITERARY FACT <i>ARTICLE I</i> "THE HAMBURG ACCOUNT" AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF "KIEV''S THOUGHT"
The article offers a fundamentally new approach to the history of Russian formalism and genesis ofV.B. Shklovsky's theoretical ideas. The author discovers sources ofthe most important concepts, such as the "Hamburg score", story and plot, etc. in Russian southern newspapers the "Kiev's Thought" and so on, in texts by D.I. Zaslavsky, and others. A traditional interpretation of the concept the "Hamburg score" goes back to the stories of V.B. Shklovsky himself about some closed fights of circus wrestlers. These stories are no longer to be found, up to our time. As one of such possible sources, the article's author suggests to consider a book by Larisa Reisner on the revolutionary events in Hamburg. This book V.B. Shklovsky analyzed in the "Hamburg Account" in detail.