First edition of a rare French anthology of Russian poets, including early translations of six poems by Pushkin.

The first section, ‘Le Livre d’Amour’, is the work of the anonymous ‘B. de G.’, a recently deceased young poet, ‘Russe par son origine et Russe dans son âme’ (p. ii), who had fallen for the delights of French verse and a Russian girl. The second part, ‘Études russes’, by Prince Meshchersky (1808–1844), a young Russian diplomat with literary tastes, includes early French translations of Pushkin’s ‘Les Lutins’ (Besy), ‘Novembre’ (Zima), ‘Au poète’ (Poetu), ‘Chanson tscherkesse’ (Cherkesskaia pesn’, taken from The Prisoner of the Caucasus), ‘À une Kalmouque’ (Kalmychke), and ‘Prière’ (Molitva). Other poets translated include Evdokiya Rostopchina, Zhukovsky, Kozlov, Benediktov, Khomyakov, Kukolnik, Vyazemsky, Baratynsky, and Yazykov.

Mezhov, Puschkiniana 3247. OCLC locates copies at Princeton, Anna Amalia Bibliothek (Weimar), and Bibliothèque Nationale de France only.

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