GUMILEV NIKOLAI (1886-1921) Two typewritten texts from the mid-twentieth century with the works of the poet Four Early Publications of the Poet
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(1)Two typewritten texts from the mid-twentieth century with the works of the poet:
Otravlenie tunika: Tragediya v pyati deystviyah [The Poisoned Tunic: Tragedy in Five Acts.] No place, no date. - 65 pages; 28.5x22 cm.
Derevo prevrasheniy [The Tree of Transformations: Play in Three Acts for Children] / N. Gumilev. No place, no date. - 40 pages; 21x16 cm.
Owner's covers made of thick paper. Housed in a modern case with a gold-stamped leather spine.
"The Poisoned Tunic" is the only known dramatic work by Gumilev that was not printed in Russia, written in 1917-18. It was first published in the book "Unpublished Gumilev" (New York, 1952). The manuscript of the tragedy, along with several other unpublished works, was brought to Paris in 1931 by M. Artemyev (Brensted). In 1918, the first Children's Theater "Communal" opened in Petrograd, and the first play staged there was "The Tree of Transformations."
Four Early Publications of the Poet:
Browning, Robert. Pippa Passes. Severnye Zapiski [Northern Notes]. 1918. No. 3, 4. pp. 34-56; 62-98. 23x16 cm.
In a paper owner's cover. First publication of the translation.
African Hunt: From N. Gumilev's Travel Diary; Horseman. Lit. i nauchno-populyarnoe prilozhenie k "Nive" [Literary and Popular Science Supplement to "Niva"]. 1916. No. 8. pp. 555-563. 23x16 cm.
In a paper owner's cover. The book is enclosed in a contemporary cardboard folder with a leather spine. First publication of the essay.
Gondla: Dramatic Poem in Four Acts. Russkaya Mysl [Russian Thought]. 1917. Book 1. pp. 67-98. 23x16 cm.
In a paper owner's cover. The book is enclosed in a contemporary cardboard folder with a leather spine. First publication of the drama.
Viele-Griffin. Cavalcade of Isolde. Severnye Zapiski [Northern Notes]. 1918. No. 1. pp. 58-70. 23x16 cm.
In a paper owner's cover. First publication of the translation.
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886-1921) was one of the central figures of the Silver Age, the founder of the Acmeist school in Russian poetry, a prose writer, playwright, translator, literary critic, traveler, and Africanist. He conducted two expeditions to Eastern and Northeastern Africa in 1909 and 1913. He was executed on August 26, 1921, based on fabricated charges of participation in the anti-Soviet conspiracy of the "Petrograd Combat Organization of Tagantsev." He was posthumously rehabilitated.