Bez Rossii [i.e. Without Russia]

Nesmelov, A.

Edité par Antiquary, 1990

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480 pp., ill. 21x13,5 cm. First and only edition. Rarity. Arseny Ivanovich Mitropolsky (pseudonym Arseny Nesmelov 1889 1945) - Russian poet, prose writer and journalist. He spent the entire First World War on the Austrian front. During the war, Nesmelov received four orders. At the beginning of November 1917, he took part in the fight against the Bolsheviks in Moscow. A few weeks later he left Moscow for the Urals, reached Kurgan, and later to Omsk, where he joined the troops of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief A.V. Kolchak. In the early spring of 1920, he ended up in Vladivostok, where he took up journalism and literary activity, taking as a literary pseudonym the name of a comrade in arms who died near Tyumen. In May 1924, together with several other former white officers, he crossed the Soviet-Chinese border on foot. Settled in Harbin. He actively collaborated in local Russian-language periodicals (magazines Rubezh , Ray of Asia ; newspaper Rupor , etc.): published stories, poems, reviews, feuilletons, articles about literature. For some time I edited the page Young Reader of Rubezh (supplement to the newspaper Rupor ). Nesmelov s poetry was already known in the 1920s; it was highly valued by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolai Aseev, Leonid Martynov, Sergei Markov and others. Member of the All-Russian Fascist Party, by order of which he wrote a collection of journalistic poems Only Such and the poem George Semyon , published not under the main pseudonym, but under the name N. Dozorov". In 1941, he was enrolled as an official employee of the 4th department of the Japanese Military Mission, and worked in propaganda courses. In May 1944 he was transferred to the 6th department of the mission, where he worked until the occupation of Harbin by the Red Army in 1945. In August 1945, he was arrested and taken to the USSR. According to the official certificate, he died on December 6 of the same year in a transit prison in Grodekov.

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• Titre: Bez Rossii [i.e. Without Russia]
• Éditeur: Antiquary
• Date de parution: 1990
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Very Good