KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich, and Nikolai Pavlovich DMITREVSKY (illustrator).
Emel’ian Pugachev, poema. Graviury na dereve N.P. Dmitrevskogo [Emelyan Pugachev, a poem. Wood engravings by N.P. Dmitrevskii].
[Leningrad], ‘Molodaia Gvardiia’, 1931.
8vo, pp. 200, with frontispiece and 14 wood-engraved illustrations by Dmitrevsky, title and initials by Nikolai Vasilievch Il’in; a very good copy in the original red cloth, silvered spine, original dustjacket designed by Il’in (chipped with loss to head and tail of spine, small abrasion to front cover).
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Emel’ian Pugachev, poema. Graviury na dereve N.P. Dmitrevskogo [Emelyan Pugachev, a poem. Wood engravings by N.P. Dmitrevskii].
First edition of Kamensky’s long narrative poem, preceded by a play on the same subject in 1925.
The Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev claimed to be Catherine the Great’s husband, Peter III, assassinated in 1762, and led a peasant revolt in 1773-4. Pugachev was a favourite Bolshevik theme, and the present work may be seen as a companion piece to Kamensky’s popular work Sten’ka Razin (1918), which treats another Cossack hero, who led a revolt against the feudal boyars in 1670.
Tarasenkov p. 166.
