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The book publishes documentary materials from the archives of academician Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (1891-1971), an outstanding Russian scientist, specialist in a wide range of philological disciplines: German philology, poetics, Russian literature, comparative literature, folklore. The first part of the book contains Zhirmunsky's youthful diaries relating to the period of his studies at the famous St. Petersburg Tenishevsky School. The diaries provide an opportunity to look into the inner world of the future scientist, to get acquainted with his then literary hobbies that formed his personality and further range of interests. The diaries also reflect the everyday life of the Tenishevsky School, the turbulent events of the first Russian revolution of 1905, and the impressions from the trips of the Zhirmunsky family to Germany. Two further parts of the book contain Zhirmunsky's correspondence with well-known domestic literary critics - professors of St. Petersburg-Leningrad University V.V. Gippius (1894-1942) and A.A. Smirnov (1883-1962). The letters reflect the scientific and literary life of Russia in the 1910s-1920s. All documentary materials are provided with an extensive scientific apparatus (comments and articles). All documents are published for the first time. A small white spot (1cm) at the bottom of the cover.