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On the banks of the Neva

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"I write not about myself and not for myself, but about those I was given the privilege of knowing... I write about them and for them. I try to say as little as possible about myself..." wrote Irina Odoyevtseva, a Russian poet and beloved student of Nikolai Gumilev, in the preface to her memoirs. She lived a long life and returned to her homeland in 1987, the last representative of the distant Silver Age. Her memoir, "On the Banks of the Neva," was published in Russia in the late 1980s in a colossal print run of 150,000 copies and was hailed as a revelation. Even today, this book—a monument to an era, its living testimony—is read with great interest. Its pages feature Nikolai Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova, Georgy Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky... Odoevtseva's phenomenal memory allowed her to recreate the conversations, discussions, and debates of that time even after many decades.
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