Tretii Rim Khudozhestvennaia Proza Stat I

"This is the first such collection of prose and criticism by the poet Georgii Ivanov (1894-1958). It includes detailed commentaries and the bibliography," states the editor, Professor Vadim Kreid of Iowa University, in his preface. The engrossing novel Tretii Rim, published previously only in periodicals, describes St. Petersburg before WWI. In the memoirs, critical - often mercilessly biting, but always precise and brilliant - articles and literary essays the reader meets the most important figures in the Russian literary world of the 20th century: Blok, Khodasevich, Gumilev, Nabokov, V. Ivanov, Mayakovsky, Esenin, Aldanov, Bunin, Mandelshtam, Adamovich and many others.