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VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian (1877-1932). Stikhi o terrore [Poems on the Terror.] Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Pisatelei, 1923.
The first edition of Voloshin's last book, collecting powerful poems composed after the Red Terror that followed the evacuation of the White Army from Crimea. Voloshin was a courageous poet with an unshakeable belief in the quasi-magical power of the poetic word; he frequently made personal appeals to both White and Red officials, reciting his poems to gain access and win a reprieve for individuals in trouble, occasionally saving a fellow poet from execution (cf. Nadezhda Teffi's Memories). Miraculously, Voloshin died not at the hands of the Cheka, but from complications from the flu. Not in Kilgour.
Octavo (184 x 130mm). (Margins evenly yellowed.) Original wrappers printed in red and black (some spotting; short tear at spine foot neatly repaired). Provenance: 'B.B. russkaia biblioteka' (cancelled stamp on front cover and front blank, with manuscript inventory number 2084) – Circle of Lovers of Reading, Copenhagen (stamps on the front cover and front blank).
The first edition of Voloshin's last book, collecting powerful poems composed after the Red Terror that followed the evacuation of the White Army from Crimea. Voloshin was a courageous poet with an unshakeable belief in the quasi-magical power of the poetic word; he frequently made personal appeals to both White and Red officials, reciting his poems to gain access and win a reprieve for individuals in trouble, occasionally saving a fellow poet from execution (cf. Nadezhda Teffi's Memories). Miraculously, Voloshin died not at the hands of the Cheka, but from complications from the flu. Not in Kilgour.
Octavo (184 x 130mm). (Margins evenly yellowed.) Original wrappers printed in red and black (some spotting; short tear at spine foot neatly repaired). Provenance: 'B.B. russkaia biblioteka' (cancelled stamp on front cover and front blank, with manuscript inventory number 2084) – Circle of Lovers of Reading, Copenhagen (stamps on the front cover and front blank).
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