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[LERMONTOV, Mikhail Iur’evich (1814-1841)]. 'Vesna' [Spring]. [In:] Atenei. Zhurnal Izdavaemyi Mikhailom Pavlovym. Part 4. Moscow: Reshetnikov, 1830.
The first appearance of Lermontov in print: the poem ‘Spring’, written for his cousin Ekaterina Sushkova, with whom he was infatuated. The poet was just sixteen, and Ekaterina eighteen. The poem appears on page 113, and is signed simply ‘L’ in a Roman type rather than Cyrillic. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka or Al’manakhi.
Octavo (199 x 118mm). (Very minor spotting, small marginal paper flaw on p.55, word crossed out on p.1.) 19th-century Russian half calf, marbled boards, spine tooled in blind with gilt-lettered label, original printed wrappers (rebacked). Provenance: Cyrillic stamp ‘Biblioteka S.A.T.’ n.2454 (front endleaf and p.17) – unidentified stamp (title) – stamps ‘M12-25’ and inked numbers (rear pastedown).
The first appearance of Lermontov in print: the poem ‘Spring’, written for his cousin Ekaterina Sushkova, with whom he was infatuated. The poet was just sixteen, and Ekaterina eighteen. The poem appears on page 113, and is signed simply ‘L’ in a Roman type rather than Cyrillic. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka or Al’manakhi.
Octavo (199 x 118mm). (Very minor spotting, small marginal paper flaw on p.55, word crossed out on p.1.) 19th-century Russian half calf, marbled boards, spine tooled in blind with gilt-lettered label, original printed wrappers (rebacked). Provenance: Cyrillic stamp ‘Biblioteka S.A.T.’ n.2454 (front endleaf and p.17) – unidentified stamp (title) – stamps ‘M12-25’ and inked numbers (rear pastedown).
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