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Derzhavin, or the Collapse of an Empire

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Yuri Dombrovsky (1909–1978) was a novelist and poet who survived several arrests, camps, and exiles without breaking. He is the author of the novels "The Monkey Comes for His Skull," "The Keeper of Antiquities," "The Faculty of Unnecessary Things," and "The Birth of a Mouse." "Derzhavin, or the Collapse of an Empire" is his first and unfinished novel, published in 1937–1938—an event that now seems impossible for those years—in the magazine "Literary Kazakhstan." The young second lieutenant, Gavriil Derzhavin (not yet a famous poet or an important government official), must capture the rebellious convict Pugachev, who has assumed the name of the late emperor. Dombrovsky's Derzhavin doesn't want to be an executioner, but he has no intention of retreating from the existing order either. He is a "man of rules" and sees that "treason is all around."
"But the riots," Derzhavin said, "but the blood that flooded the earth, but the fires, the gallows? Did you know what you were doing? You, as an educated man, how could you lead this blinded crowd?"
"Dombrovsky peered into the abyss of the relationship between fate and poet, genius and villainy." "Derzhavin" is not a novelized biography, but an energetic debut, replete with poignant situations and permeated with a high-voltage current."
Yuri Davydov
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