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Correspondence Across a Room

poetry by Ivanov

Also known as: “Perepiska iz dvukh uglov”

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discussed in biography

In Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
…Perepiska iz dvukh uglov (1921; Correspondence Across a Room), a dialogue with the philosopher Mikhail Gershenzon about the fate of culture and civilization after war and revolution. In 1944 Ivanov wrote a series of poems that were published posthumously in Svet vecherny (1962; “Evening Light”). His Povest o Tsareviche-Svetomire (“Tale…
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