SOLOGUB AND SOLLOGUB.

I didn't post yesterday because I was too wrapped up in creating a much expanded Wikipedia entry for Fyodor Sologub, a fine writer who is often ignored in literary histories, since he fell between stools: his major work was published after 1900, so he's not in histories of classic Russian literature; he was opposed to the Bolsheviks, so he was ignored by Soviet literary history (and by Western scholars who, shamefully, largely accepted Soviet valuations, though adding "dissident" writers); and he stayed in Russia, thus not benefiting from the recent upsurge in attention paid to the exiles. And for some reason he's ignored even in cultural histories like Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes and St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov (which mentions him only twice, in lists of Symbolist writers, despite the fact that he spent his entire adult life in St. Petersburg and knew almost everybody). I discovered months ago, when I read The Petty Demon, that the Wikipedia entry was insultingly short and badly written, but I knew it would take a long time to do a proper job, so I put it off until I had no books to edit and could devote myself to it without guilt. So yesterday I plunged in; fortunately, there was a long and well done Russian entry (though it was full of bad or pointless links, which took me some time to fix or remove), and I found a very useful timeline, but it still took me hours and hours. And then the side issue of his pseudonym (he was born Teternikov, which his pal Minsky thought sounded unpoetic) involved me in more labor; as I write in the Sologub entry, "the aristocratic name Sollogub was decided on, but one of the ls was removed in an attempt (unavailing, as it turned out) to avoid confusion with Count Vladimir Sollogub," and there was no entry at all for the dilettantish but reasonably important count, so I had to create one from scratch. It's nice to feel I'm contributing to the sum of human (or English-speaking, at any rate) knowledge in this way.

To provide a linguistic hook for this post: the name Sollogub is not in Unbegaun's magisterial Russian Surnames (of which I own a Russian translation); Sologub is there, but only in a list of pseudonyms, where it is called "Ukrainian" without further explanation (with the casual remark that it is "also the name of the writer V. A. Sologub" [sic]!). V. A. apparently got it from his Polish grandfather, but unfortunately, although Google Books lets me know it's in Onomastica: pismo poświęcone nazewnictwu geograficznemu i osobowemu (Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1988), it won't show me any pages or even snippets. So: anybody know anything about this Polish and/or Ukrainian family name?