[Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich]--Fedorov, Boris Mihkailovich, editor.

8vo (127 x 97mm.), folding facsimile letter, original card front cover bound in, contemporary Russian calf, spotting, a few light creases, a few tiny tears with marginal loss, small ink splash on 15/5, rebacked retaining some of the original spine

Kilgour 813

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Pushkin, in 1827, the year of publication of the third part of his masterpiece Evgenii Onegin, did provide a memento for the fatherland's muses, but this almanac was something he would have rather forgotten.

Boris Mihkailovich Fedorov, the editor, some of whose own writings are included "to add shade to the sunlight: so necessary for full appreciation of the grove's beauty", included half a dozen Pushkin poems without the writer's permission. The poems are Romans, Zhelanie, Zazdravnyi kubok, Favn i pastushka, Zhivopisi and Son (Otryvok), all of which were probably composed in the period 1813-1820. Pushkin objected to their publication, perhaps because he felt that the elegiac tone of these juvenilia were not in keeping with the mature and authoritative poetic voice he had developed through the 1820s as much as Fedorov's affrontery in not seeking his permission. this is the first appearance in print of these poems.

Amongst the other contributions are an abridged and sanitised version of Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov's vek slavy dlia Frantsuzkoi Slovesnosti proshel, in which he suggests that the golden age of French literature was now in the past, as well as works by Karamzin and Rodzianko.