![PIL'NIAK, Boris (pseudonym of Boris Andreevich Vogau, 1894-1938). Povest' peterburgskaia ili sviatoi kamen-gorod. [Stories of St Petersburg, the Holy Stone-City.] Moscow and Berlin: Gelikon, 1922.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0210_000(pilniak_boris_povest_peterburgskaia_ili_sviatoi_kamen-gorod_stories_of111418).jpg?w=1)
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PIL'NIAK, Boris (pseudonym of Boris Andreevich Vogau, 1894-1938). Povest' peterburgskaia ili sviatoi kamen-gorod. [Stories of St Petersburg, the Holy Stone-City.] Moscow and Berlin: Gelikon, 1922.
The first edition. In these two stories illustrated by Vasilii Masiutin (1884-1955), Pil'niak characterises Peter I as the antichrist, and the city bearing his name as a perversion of the authentic Russian national character. Povest' peterburgskaia was published in the same year as his first novel, Golyi god [The Naked Year]. By the end of the 1920s, Pil'niak was one of the most popular authors in Russia. For a time he benefited from the protection of Nikolai Yezhov, future head of the NKVD, who acted as his personal censor during the early 1930s, but Pil'niak was executed in 1938, accused of plotting to kill Stalin and Yezhov. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 414.
Octavo (149 x 109mm). Illustrations throughout by Vasilii Nikolaevich Masiutin. Original pale green paper wrappers, spine and front cover printed in brown (lower corner of back cover chipped; light soiling).
The first edition. In these two stories illustrated by Vasilii Masiutin (1884-1955), Pil'niak characterises Peter I as the antichrist, and the city bearing his name as a perversion of the authentic Russian national character. Povest' peterburgskaia was published in the same year as his first novel, Golyi god [The Naked Year]. By the end of the 1920s, Pil'niak was one of the most popular authors in Russia. For a time he benefited from the protection of Nikolai Yezhov, future head of the NKVD, who acted as his personal censor during the early 1930s, but Pil'niak was executed in 1938, accused of plotting to kill Stalin and Yezhov. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 414.
Octavo (149 x 109mm). Illustrations throughout by Vasilii Nikolaevich Masiutin. Original pale green paper wrappers, spine and front cover printed in brown (lower corner of back cover chipped; light soiling).
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