
Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
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Ivanov - The Greatest Lyric Poems in Russia, Less Than 12 Lines
Many people, i think, of my generation were brought up to detest ivanov. And he was an emigrey, and he was one of the youngest of the acmest group that gathered around gumilo namativaa. He published a book of memoirs in petersburg, but he does actually make quite clear, or not to be taken literally, that there is stitl a mixture of fiction and mem be temPeople like ahmateve and nadege de mandelston who were having enough trouble with the kind of lies put about by the soviet authorities, were just enraged that somebodycoud who had the freedom to speak truthfully
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