Ot panslavizma k utopičeskoj koncepcii vselenskogo mira v myšlenii i tvorčestve Chlebnikova

This paper discusses Chlebnikov’s own bellicose early declarations and poems in 1908, in which he opposes German and Slavonic principles, his interest both in Slavonic philology and in Slavonic-based word formation, as well as his theoretical and poetic writings at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. Furthermore, we illustrate his encounter with Janko Lavrin, who at the time was living in Russia, and the influence of the Slovene philologist on the Russian poet’s linguistic and Pan-Slavic theories, as they were illustrated in a series of articles published in 1913 in the Saint Petersburg newspaper “Slavianin”. After the beginning of WWI Chlebnikov showed a significant shift from his Neo-Slavophile ideas to a new conception, which turns towards the Eurasian continent as the arena for his utopian visions, as the “Letter to two Japanese persons” (1916) clearly illustrates.