ZHUKOVSKII, Vasilii A. Pevets na Kremle. [Singers at the Kremlin]. St. Petersburg: Meditsinskaya Tipografiya, 1816.
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ZHUKOVSKII, Vasilii A. Pevets na Kremle. [Singers at the Kremlin]. St. Petersburg: Meditsinskaya Tipografiya, 1816.

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ZHUKOVSKII, Vasilii A. Pevets na Kremle. [Singers at the Kremlin]. St. Petersburg: Meditsinskaya Tipografiya, 1816.

4° (228 x 140mm). Engraved title vignette by S. Galaktionov after F. Alekseev. (Dampstain). Contemporary calf, original printed wrappers bound-in, red morocco label on spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Grand Duchess Ksenya Aleksandrovna (bookplate) -- Paul M. Fekula.

KSENYA ALEXANDROVNA'S COPY of Zhukovskii's triumphal lyric upon Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, and ultimate defeat. The poem is a continuation of the Pevets v stane Russkikh voinov which made him famous. Zhukovskii, who was also admired for his translations of Byron, Schiller, Goethe and Gray, was a friend and collaborator of Pushkin, and a member of the Arzamas poetical circle. Fekula 5440 (this copy); Kilgour 129; Obol'ianinov 932.
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