ERENBURG, Il’ia Grigorievich (1891-1967). Ogon’ [Fire]. [Gomel]: Veka i Dni, 1919. First edition, presentation copy bearing a long, warm inscription in Russian by Erenburg to the actress Varvara Alexeeva-Meskhieva . Ogon’ is the first of only two books published by ‘Ages and Days’, the publishing enterprise founded in Gomel (now Belarus) by Lev Vygotsky, his brother David and Semyon Dobkin upon liberation in 1918. Erenburg published this collection at the height of his anti-Bolshevik period in Kiev. Varvara Alekseeva-Meskhieva, who features in Erenburg’s memoirs, was a star of Russian theatre as well as literary salons in Moscow and St Petersburg. The inscription, a confession of love and reverence, is in the style of a prayer and contains allusions to Mary – a motif which Erenburg appears to have used elsewhere. Kilgour 295. Octavo (188 x 135mm). Original printed wrappers (some soiling and wear); in a folding cloth box. Provenance : Il'ia Erenburg (presentation inscription to:) - Varvara Alexeeva-Meskhieva (actor, b.1898).
ERENBURG, Il’ia Grigorievich (1891-1967). Ogon’ [Fire]. [Gomel]: Veka i Dni, 1919. First edition, presentation copy bearing a long, warm inscription in Russian by Erenburg to the actress Varvara Alexeeva-Meskhieva . Ogon’ is the first of only two books published by ‘Ages and Days’, the publishing enterprise founded in Gomel (now Belarus) by Lev Vygotsky, his brother David and Semyon Dobkin upon liberation in 1918. Erenburg published this collection at the height of his anti-Bolshevik period in Kiev. Varvara Alekseeva-Meskhieva, who features in Erenburg’s memoirs, was a star of Russian theatre as well as literary salons in Moscow and St Petersburg. The inscription, a confession of love and reverence, is in the style of a prayer and contains allusions to Mary – a motif which Erenburg appears to have used elsewhere. Kilgour 295. Octavo (188 x 135mm). Original printed wrappers (some soiling and wear); in a folding cloth box. Provenance : Il'ia Erenburg (presentation inscription to:) - Varvara Alexeeva-Meskhieva (actor, b.1898).
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