COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY TRANSLATIONS [GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich, Osip MANDELSTAM, et al, translators.]
Поэты французского Возрождения [Poety frantsuzskogo vozrozhdeniia; ‘Poets of the French Renaissance’].
First edition of a rare anthology of Russian translations of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poems by Villon, Marot, Ronsard, Du Bellay, and others. Two of the Villon translations are attributed in the index to Mandelstam, but are in fact by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886–1921), husband of Anna Akhmatova, who had been arrested and executed for his alleged involvement in the Tagantsev conspiracy.
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