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Russian Literature and Art
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New York, NY 10036-1902 
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AKHMATOVA, Anna (1889-1966), Konstantin BALMONT (1867-1942), Andre BELYI (1880-1934), Aeksandr BLOK (1880-1921), David BURLIUK (1882-1967), Valerii BRIUSOV (1873-1924), Ivan BUNIN (1870-1953), Ilya ERENBURG (1891-1967), Sergei ESENIN (1895-1925), Zaida GIPPIUS (1869-1945), Nikolai GUMILEV (1886-1921), Vasilii KAMENSKII (1884-1961), Vladislav KHODASEVICH (1886-1939), Mikhail KUZMIN (1872-1936), Osip MANDELSHTAM (1891-1938), Vladmir MAYAKOVSKY (1893-1930), Boris PASTERNAK (1890-1960), Igor SEVERYANIN (1887-1941), Fedor SOLOGUB (1863-1927), Marina TSVETAEVA (1892-1941), Maksimilian VOLOSHIN (1877-1932) and others. Vesennii salon poetov [Spring Salon of Poets]. Moscow: "Zerna," 1918. 190 pp., 8vo (190 x 130 mm). Title in green and black. Original color lithographed Futurist wrappers designed by Georgii Bogdanovich Yakulov. Condition: minor soiling to back wrapper, backstrip with some slight chipping to extremities. the most important poetry anthology of the silver age, embracing symbolism, acmeism, and futurism. Almost everyone who was anyone in early twentieth-century Russian poetry appears in this collection. Only Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov are conspicuously absent. The Futurist and later Constructivist Yakulov (1884-1928) was an important set and costume designer who worked with Diaghilev, Meierkhold and Prokofiev.*** . ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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