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RYLEEV, Kondraty (1795-1826). Dumy. [With] Vojnarovskij. St Petersburg: S. Selivanovskij, 1825.
The first editions of Ryleev’s first and second books. A Decembrist-poet involved in the revolutionary upheavals of 1825, Ryleev was also the editor of the famous almanac Poljarnaja Zvezda (1825-1827), where he published several of his works. His first book was a collection of 32 dumy or elegies of ancient Slavic origin sung to commemorate valiant heroes. ‘This sold out almost immediately, and within five years it had become a bibliographical rarity for which collectors paid up to one hundred roubles’ (O’Meara). Imbued with Decembrist ideals, Vojnarovskij narrates the rebellion of the Ukrainian officer Mazepa against Peter the Great. An enthusiastic Pushkin wrote that ‘our literature was in need of this poem’. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1081 (bound together) and 1083 (second only). P. O’Meara, K.F. Ryleev, p. 171; Pushkin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, x.118.
2 works in one volume, octavo (186 x 107mm). With the engraved title and half-title (little offsetting from engraving, half-title a bit soiled at margins, occasional light waterstains or ink splashes, traces of glue at upper corners of first and last leaf, 1: two misbound). Contemporary Russian half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt and blind tooled, with title, silk marker (rebacked, later endpapers).
The first editions of Ryleev’s first and second books. A Decembrist-poet involved in the revolutionary upheavals of 1825, Ryleev was also the editor of the famous almanac Poljarnaja Zvezda (1825-1827), where he published several of his works. His first book was a collection of 32 dumy or elegies of ancient Slavic origin sung to commemorate valiant heroes. ‘This sold out almost immediately, and within five years it had become a bibliographical rarity for which collectors paid up to one hundred roubles’ (O’Meara). Imbued with Decembrist ideals, Vojnarovskij narrates the rebellion of the Ukrainian officer Mazepa against Peter the Great. An enthusiastic Pushkin wrote that ‘our literature was in need of this poem’. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1081 (bound together) and 1083 (second only). P. O’Meara, K.F. Ryleev, p. 171; Pushkin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, x.118.
2 works in one volume, octavo (186 x 107mm). With the engraved title and half-title (little offsetting from engraving, half-title a bit soiled at margins, occasional light waterstains or ink splashes, traces of glue at upper corners of first and last leaf, 1: two misbound). Contemporary Russian half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt and blind tooled, with title, silk marker (rebacked, later endpapers).
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