Our Notes & References
Scarce complete set of all five issues of this important almanac, which printed, often for the first time, the works of censored Russian authors. As a result, it includes most of the best Russian authors and poets of the 20th century.
Contents include especially:
– Vol. I: Akhmatova, Poema bez geroia [Poem Without a Hero]: the first publication of Akhmatova’s major work
– Vol. II: 57 poems by Mandelshtam, and Nabokov, Two poems
– Vol. III: Akhmatova, Nas chetvero [‘Us Four’, dedicated to Tsvetaeva), Mandelshtam, Tri epigrammy; Four novellas by Babel – Vol. IV: Pasternak, notes for the fantasy ‘Poema o blizhnem’; Akhmatova, essay on Mandelshtam; Brodsky, Poems, Mandelshtam, Poems; with portraits plates of Pasternak, Akhmatova, Vsevolod Meyerhold; Stenograph from the first trial of Iosif Brodsky
– Vol. V: Tsvetaeva, Perekop, Posmertny Podarok, Autobiography; Brodsky, Poems; Nabokov, poems.
Robert Eden Martin (b. 1940; American lawyer and noted collector of Russian, British and American literature works).