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Georgy Ivanov revisited

I’ve stumbled upon the ending and dating of this poem. It’s even more radical considering a Russian émigré penned it down in France in 1949. Here’s a rhythmically irregular (deliberately so) translation. I am for war and foreign intervention;I’m for…

Just to quote something radical

Georgy Ivanov, the one to become the best Russian poet of the Void, wrote some time after the 1917 Revolution: I’m for the war and foreign intervention; I’m for the Czar, even a dead man. The Russian intelligentsia To the…