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CHULKOV, Georgii Ivanovich (1879-1939) (editor).

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St. Petersburg: D. K. Tikhomirov, 1906-1908. 3 vols. Various sizes. Vol. 1 in the original purple wrappers designed by Evgenii Lancere; the other two rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with the original yellow or purple wrappers. E. E. Lancere and V. Ya. Chembrs bound in. Condition: wrappers worn with splits and chipping to backstrip; rubbing to boards, corners slightly bumped. complete run of this rare symbolist annual. With contributions by Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Ivan Bunin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub, Boris Zaitsev and others. With graphics by Ivan Bibibin, V. Ya. Chembrs, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (uncredited), E. E. Lansere and Boris Zamirailo. Chulkov called for Russian writers to discard Symbolism and Decadence for what he called "Mystical Anarchism." Drawing largely on Friederich Nietzsche's ideas, this new philosophy tried to reconcile individual freedom and social harmony. While Aleksandr Blok and Vyacheslav Ivanov supported the new doctrine, Valerii Briusov and Andrei Belyi challenged it until the controversy subsided by 1908. (3)

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