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ANNENSKII RUSSIAN LITERATURE SIGNED

ANNENSKII, Innokentii Fedorovich (1855-1909). Vakhanki.

St. Petersburg: Akadmeii Nauk. 1894. 8vo (236 x 155 mm). Orignal boards, upper cover lettered in red. Condition: boards rubbed and lightly darkened, spine worn and with short split at upper joint. inscribed by the author: "To Vasilii Vasilevich Latyshev as a sign of profoundest respect from the author of this book. 8 December 1894." presentation copy from the important symbolist poet. [With 2 other works by Annenskii:] Tsar Iksion. Tragedia [King Ixion. a Tragedy]. St. Petersburg: M. P. Frolova, 1902. 8vo (230 x 154 mm). Original printed wrappers. Famira-Kifared. St. Petersburg: Z. I. Grzhebina, 1919. 12mo (194 x 145 mm). Illustrated by Dmitrii Isidorovich Mitrokhin and others. Original decorated pink wrappers designed by Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov.. Annenskii was important in the first wave of Russian Symbolists and profoundly influenced Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam and other poets. He translated all of Euripides' work from the ancient Greek and wrote several plays (including Tsar Iksion) based on the Greek tragedies. (3).(3)