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BELYI, Andrei [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev] (1880-19

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Petersburg: "Alkonost," 1919-1922. Numbers 1-6. Large 8vo (240 x 155). Rebound in red leatherette. Condition: some wrappers absent, final leaf with tape repair to verso. COMPLETE RUN OF OF THE LITERARY ORGAN OF THE Kommun Mechatelei [Commune of Dreamers]. With contributions by Anna Akhmotova, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Kornei Chukovsky, Vacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Khodasevich, Aleksei Remizov, Marietta Shaginyan, Vilgelm Aleksandrovich Zorgenfrei, Fedor Sologub, Evgenii Zamyatin and others. The Soviet authorities were so offended by Zamyatin's story about the destruction of the intelligentsia in Petersburg, "Perschera" ["The Cave"] in the January 1922 number (pp. 82-89), that they banned it from further publication. Number 4 was dedicated to Blok's memory with tributes by Belyi and Zamyatin; and the final issue (Number 6) contains memories of Blok by Belyi and Chukovsky. Not in MoMA.

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