PINOCCHIO FROM FLORENCE IN RUSSIAN BERLIN

The article deals with the story of Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures Pinocchio”, translated by Nina Petrovskaya and revised Aleksey Tolstoy in Berlin at time their collaboration newspaper “Nakanune”. Attention is drawn to use commedia dell’arte characters’ names international political newspeak connection press appearances A. Gramsci whose biography closely linked pro-Bolshevik circles Moscow. interest translation Pinocchio” Russian 1920s was most probably beginning Soviet-Italian relations choice future course facing emigrants. hypothesis different positions Maksim Gorky concerning question return Russia put forward. circumstances book for alignment processing are described. Emphasis placed on anti-fascist movement, centre which Florence, city Collodi. Petrovskaya’s views Tolstoy’s pro-Soviet stance enable us see tale from perspective social struggle personal choice. roles both authors work relationship Italian-Russian patronage family Signorelli clarified. re-addressing tale, predetermined further oblivion book, explained: new addressed not so much children as adults, émigrés.