First edition of Blok’s verse epic, on which he worked from 1910 until his death in 1921. Fragments were published during his lifetime, but the poem did not appear in its entirety until this posthumous edition.

Ashukin p. 38; Kilgour 134; Tarasenkov p. 63.

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