“If These Are Signs of Change, Then These Are Horrific Signs": The Unrevealed Protest by E. Elachich

Abstract

In the concluding rubric “Materials”, the commentary by Valentin Golovin, “If These Are Signs of Change, Then These Are Horrific Signs: The Unrevealed Protest by E. Elachich,” exposes the unpublished letter by Evgeny Elachich, the well-known literary critic of the beginning of the 20th century. In this letter of protest, the critic attacks the “pornographic content “of Sergei Iushkevich’s story, “Pigeons” (1914).