Vasilii K. Serezhnikov’s activity in development of Russian art culture
The article is devoted to the def nition of the real role of Vasilii K. Seryozhnikov in the development of artistic culture of the 1920-1930’s. He became one of the f rst creators of a new type of artistic reading. The organizer of the discipline, professional reader, creator of the genre of collective declamation, the theorist - Serezhnikov was repressed and his role in the artistic culture had turned out to be undeservedly lowered. Serezhnikov became the director of performances in the genre of choral reading, vividly ref ecting the tendency to search for a new community at the beginning of the century, he headed the State Institute of Word, collecting under his roof prominent f gures of science, art and culture, he was the f rst publisher a bibliography of theoretical works on the art of f ction and public speaking. The author of the article raises the question of Serezhnikov’s primacy in creating the art of the artistic reading as a separate type of art and opens up the new pages of the biography and professional way of the professor of the «living word».