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Andrey Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)

Autograph poem, ‘Razvali’. 1916

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    Andrey Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)

    Autograph poem, ‘Razvali’. 1916

    Price Realised GBP 8,125
    Price Realised GBP 8,125
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    Andrey Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
    Autograph poem, ‘Razvali’. 1916
    Autograph manuscript poem, ‘Razvali’ (‘Ruin’), Moscow, 1916.

    In Russian. 16 lines on one page, 374 x 138mm, numbered ‘15’ at upper right corner.

    Yest' v lete chto-to rokovoye, zloye...
    I - v voye zloy zimy...
    Volneniye, kipeniye mirskoye!
    Plenennyye umy! 

    ‘There is something fatal, evil in summer’. An apocalyptic vision in which ‘We pass into the future - line by line - / Slaves: no feelings, no souls ... / The future is like the past, we will cover / Just a pile of corpses’.
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