Commentary on Leonid Lipavskiy and Mikhail Tsekhanovsky's "The Pioneer Charter"

Abstract

This article provides a commentary on the book “Pionerskii ustav/ Pioneer Charter” (1926) by Leonid Savelyev and Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy. “L. Savelyev” was a pen-name of Leonid Lipavskiy. “Pionerskii ustav” was his first published book. The research discussed in this article introduces new facts about L. Lipavskiy's life and references his work at the school for troubled youth from 1923-1926.

Keywords: L. Lipavskiy, L. Saveljev, the OBERIU group, children's literature of the 1920s –1930s, archival material