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ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-

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[Moscow: "Severnye Dni"], 1918. 46 pp. 8vo 175 x 135 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled, extremities slightly frayed. Provenance: Andrei Sobol. presentation copy of the first edition inscribed to the poet's friend, the writer andrei sobol. The poem "Sudnyi den" ["Judgment Day," pp. 15-20] describes how the Red soldiers stop to rape a woman while storming the Winter Palace. Vladimir Mayakovsky called the book "tiresome prose printed in verses" written by "a frightened intellectual." His anti-Bolshevik writings forced him to leave Moscow for his hometown Kiev where he met Sobol. Erenburg admitted in 1921 that Molitva o Rossii was "artistically weak and ideologically impotent."