![ESENIN, Sergei (1895-1925). Preobrazhenie. [Transformation]. [Moscow:] Moskovskaia Trudovaia Artel’ Khudozhnikov Slova, [1918].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0117_001(esenin_sergei_preobrazhenie_transformation_moscow_moskovskaia_trudovai122110).jpg?w=1)
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ESENIN, Sergei (1895-1925). Preobrazhenie. [Transformation]. [Moscow:] Moskovskaia Trudovaia Artel’ Khudozhnikov Slova, [1918].
Presentation copy, in the original wrappers. Russia’s poète maudit, Esenin lived a troubled and unruly life of substance abuse, depression and continuous change and travel, whilst marrying several times. At first enthused by the Revolution, he then became critical of the Bolshevik government; his poetry was not ‘rehabilitated’ until the 1960s. He died at 30 in mysterious circumstances. Nikolai Mikhailovic Meshkov (b.1885) was a poet and pupil of Ivan Bunin; he was a member of Moscow literary circles and of the All-Russian Union of Poets. Esenin’s dedication reads ‘s liuboviu na iadrenuiu puchen slova i obraza’, in praise to Meshkov’s verse. RBH records only one other copy having been offered at auction with Esenin’s editorial corrections. Not in Kilgour or Fekula. L.A. Glezer, Zapiski bukinista, pp.192-93.
Small quarto (168 x 132mm). Some quires unopened (Uniform slight age browning, minimal spotting, couple of leaves trimmed affecting page number). In the original stamped wrappers, in modern folding box. Provenance: Sergei Esenin (dedication on first blank and editorial annotations on pp. 33 and 37) – Nikolai Mikhailovic Meshkov (b.1885) – L.A. Glezer.
Presentation copy, in the original wrappers. Russia’s poète maudit, Esenin lived a troubled and unruly life of substance abuse, depression and continuous change and travel, whilst marrying several times. At first enthused by the Revolution, he then became critical of the Bolshevik government; his poetry was not ‘rehabilitated’ until the 1960s. He died at 30 in mysterious circumstances. Nikolai Mikhailovic Meshkov (b.1885) was a poet and pupil of Ivan Bunin; he was a member of Moscow literary circles and of the All-Russian Union of Poets. Esenin’s dedication reads ‘s liuboviu na iadrenuiu puchen slova i obraza’, in praise to Meshkov’s verse. RBH records only one other copy having been offered at auction with Esenin’s editorial corrections. Not in Kilgour or Fekula. L.A. Glezer, Zapiski bukinista, pp.192-93.
Small quarto (168 x 132mm). Some quires unopened (Uniform slight age browning, minimal spotting, couple of leaves trimmed affecting page number). In the original stamped wrappers, in modern folding box. Provenance: Sergei Esenin (dedication on first blank and editorial annotations on pp. 33 and 37) – Nikolai Mikhailovic Meshkov (b.1885) – L.A. Glezer.
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