Ivanov-Razumnik, Andrei Belyi and Sergei Esenin.

Rossiia i Inoniia; Khristos Voskrese; Tovarishch; Inoniia [Russia and Inonia; Christ has risen; Comrade; Inonia].

Berlin: Izdatel'stvo Skify, 1920. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [7], 8–80 pp. A very good, apparently unread copy; tiny stain to front free end paper and light soil to lower spine extremity. Item #P002978

One of the first publications of this Socialist Revolutionary-allied publishing house, founded in 1920 by Evgenii Lundberg (1883-1965). This collection contains three works by Ivanov-Razumnik, Andrei Belyi, and Sergei Esenin and is structured around Esenin's mythopoetic fantasy world "Inoniia," the image of a new world that develops in his poems about the Russian Revolution, a genre that also applies to Bely's "Khristos Voskrese." Ivanov-Razumnik's introductory essay synthesizes these respondes to the Revolution (and also considers Blok's "The Twelve"). Along with "Triptikh" (issued by the same publishing house), this was the first book-length appearance of Esenin's work in the emigre publishing world. Scarce in such excellent condition.

Price: €150.00

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