Tag Mikhail Kuzmin

Gondla in 1922

Finally, after two preliminary posts, a longer excerpt from Mikhail Kuzmin’s 1922 review of Theatrical Workshop’s Gondla. (And I haven’t yet gotten to the Khlebnikov part.) The original text can be found here, as part of a collection of Kuzmin’s…

Gondla: an intro

In June 1916, the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev (Gumilyov) arrived at a sanatorium in the Crimea for treatment of a lung disease. In the army since the start of the war (he volunteered in August 1914), Gumilev had been twice promoted…

Mikhail Kuzmin

From Alexandrian Songs (1906). This, and more Kuzmin here. In spring the poplar changes its leaves.In spring Adonis returnsfrom the kingdom of the dead…And you – where’re you going in spring, my joy? In spring they will all go ridingin…