‘The Victim of Death-Rays from Mars’: An Evaluation of ‘gap-filling’ in Chaikovskii Biographies
This article assesses the perils of biography through two contentious events in the life of nineteenth-century Russian composer Petr Ilyich Chaikovskii (1840–93). Investigations into the historical often mandate that biographers ‘fill the gap’ in the narratives they are to construct when met with an...
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University College London - School of Slavonic and East European Studies
2022
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