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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.] BRIUSOV, Valerii Iakovlevich (editor).
Litseiskie stikhi Pushkina, po rukopisiam Moskovskago Rumiantsevskago Museia i drugim istochnikam ... [Pushkin’s Lycée poems, after the Rumiantsev Musuem manuscript and other sources …].
Moscow, “Skorpion”, 1907.
8vo, pp. [2], 92, [8]; a very good copy in modern blue cloth, with the original printed stiff paper wrappers bound in.
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Litseiskie stikhi Pushkina, po rukopisiam Moskovskago Rumiantsevskago Museia i drugim istochnikam ... [Pushkin’s Lycée poems, after the Rumiantsev Musuem manuscript and other sources …].
First edition – the symbolist poet Valery Briusov’s critical notes to volume I of the Academy edition of Pushkin’s Works (1899), which had included his Lycée poems 1812-17.
The Academy text had been published without access to MS 2364 at the Rumyantsev Museum, and Briusov prints the variant readings here, along with three poems that had not appeared in 1899: ‘Elegiia’ (‘Ia videl smert’’), ‘Unyn’e’, and ‘N. I. Krivtsovu’ (two versions).
