«A swarm of names»: from the jubilee of N. V. Bugaev (1900) to the honoring of Korobkin in Andrei Bely’s novel Moscow (1926)

The episode of honoring Professor Korobkin in the novel Moscow is based on real events, reinterpreting the celebration of the publication of the 20th issue of Matematicheskij Sbornik magazine at the Moscow Mathematical Society, which grew into a benefit event for N. V. Bugaev, Andrei Bely’s father. The characters in the analyzed episode are real people, historical personae (under their actual surnames) and characters with fictitious names. The article lists the participants of N. V. Bugaev anniversary who were subsequently introduced into the novel under their own names. The analysis of the characters presented under fictitious names leads to their real prototypes from the milieu of Professor N. V. Bugaev or Andrei Bely.