Imaginism. 3 Books in onebinding: Konnitsa bur’, 1920; V. Shershenevich Komu Ya Zhmu Ruku, 1924; G. Petnikov Kniga Marii, 1920, in Russian
Имажинизм. 3 книги в одном переплете: Конница бурь, 1920; В. Шершеневич. Кому Я Жму Руку, 1924 г.; Г. Петников Книга Марии, 1920, на русском языке.
Hard cover. 21.5 x 15 cm. Owner’s iscription on title page of all books
Condition: covers of all books are missing; yellow /light brown paper; foxing stains to some pages; dark yellow stain to lower corner to las pages of 3rd book
1. Cavalry storms. Poems / Mikhail Gerasimov, Sergey Yesenin, Rurik Ivnev, Nikolai Klyuyev, Anatoly Mariengof, Pyotr Oreshin. The first book of Imazhinists, very rare, limited edition. All verses of the poets included in this book were published for the first time
Moscow, 1920. not paginated, [36 pp.] inscription on title page in Russian: Lifshits, 1923, N.Novgorod
Конница бурь. Стихи / Михаил Герасимов, Сергей Есенин, Рюрик Ивнев, Николай Клюев, Анатолий Мариенгоф, Петр Орешин. [Первый сборник имажинистов, все стихи поэтов включенные в эту книгу, опубликованы впервые]. М.: [МТАХС]; 8 типолит. Полиграф. отд. Моск. гор. совета нар. хоз-ва, 1920. [36c.]
2. Vadim Shershenevich.
Shooks his hand to someone. Who I shake my hand. - [Moscow]: "Imazhinists", [1924]. - 48 pp.; very rare, limited edition
Shooks his hand to someone – title on cover, cover missing
Who I shake my hand – title on title page.
Mentioned in catalogs of Rozanov No. 4827, Lesman No. 1125,
Вадим Шершеневич. Жмет руку кому. Кому я жму руку /. - [Москва] : "Имажинисты", [1924]. - 48 с.;
Жмет руку кому - название на обложке, обложка отсутствует
Кому я жму руку - название на титульном листе
Розанов № 4827, Лесман № 1125,
Vadim Gabrielevich Shershenevich (1893-1942) - Russian poet, translator, one of the founders and main theorists of imagism.
Вади́м Габриэ́левич Шершене́вич (1893-1942) — русский поэт, переводчик, один из основателей и главных теоретиков имажинизма.
He wrote a series of essays about the work of his friends in the Order - Mariengof, Ivnev, Kusikov and Yesenin under the name "Who I shake my hand." In them, the author, knowing the depths of the poetry of his comrades in Per, speaks of the most important features of their work, shows the influence of the personality of each of the poets presented on him. The book contains many extracts from the poetic works of Yesenin, Mariengof, Kusikov and Ivnev, representing different aspects of the talent of one or another representative of Imazhinism. The book is an important source about the life and work of representatives of the circle and the relationship between them.
Oн написал серию эссе о творчестве своих друзей по ордену - Мариенгофа, Ивнева, Кусикова и Есенина под названием «Кому я жму руку». В них автор, зная глубины поэзии своих товарищей по перу, говорит о важнейших чертах их творчества, показывает влияние на него личности каждого из представленных поэтов. В книге помещено много извлечений из стихотворных произведений Есенина, Мариенгофа, Кусикова и Ивнева, представляющих разные стороны таланта того или иного представителя имажинизма. Книга является важным источником о жизни и творчестве представителей кружка и отношениях между ними.
3. Grigory Petnikov, 2 autographs in his book: Maria's book. Light the Snow. (Poems) 1920.
Petersburg: Liren, 1920. – 46c. Autograph / verses signed in pencil on pages: 5-6 and 40.
Cover is missing.
Mentioned in catalogs of Turchinsky. P. 421; Rozanov. No. 3602. Rarity.
Григо́рий Петников, 2 автографa. Книга Марии Зажги Снега. 1920.
Автограф/стихи нaписаны карандашом на страницах: 5-6 и 40.
Петников, Г.Н. Книга Марии Зажги Снега: [Стихотворения] / Григорий Петников. Пб.: Лирень, 1920. – 46c.
Турчинский. С. 421; Розанов. №3602. Редкость.
Имажини́зм (от лат. imago — образ) — литературное объединение русских поэтов серебряного века, существовавшее в 1918—1925 годы. Представители имажинизма заявляли, что цель творчества состоит в создании образа. Основное выразительное средство имажинистов — метафора, часто метафорические цепи, сопоставляющие различные элементы двух образов — прямого и переносного. Для творческой практики имажинистов характерен эпатаж, анархические мотивы.
Imaginism was a Russian avant-garde poetic movement that began after the Revolution of 1917.
Imaginism was founded in 1918 in Moscow by a group of poets including Anatoly Marienhof, Vadim Shershenevich, and Sergei Yesenin, who wanted to distance themselves from the Futurists; the name may have been influenced by imagism.
Stylistically, they were heirs to Ego-Futurism. Imaginists created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images. They wrote many verbless poems.[1]
Other members of the group were the poets Rurik Ivnev, Alexander Kusikov, Ivan Gruzinov, Matvey Royzman, and the prominent Russian dramatist Nikolay Erdman. In January 1919 they issued a manifesto, whose text was largely written by Shershenevich.
Most of the imaginists were freethinkers and atheists. Imaginism had its main centres in Moscow and St. Petersburg. There were also smaller centres of imaginism in Kazan, Saransk, and Ukraine. Imaginists organised four poetry publishing houses, one of which was called simply Imaginism, and published the poetry magazine Gostinitsa dlya puteshestvuyuschih v prekrasnom ("Guesthouse for travellers in the beautiful").
The group broke up in 1925, and in 1927 it was liquidated officially. Its heritage, though, is still strong in Russia. Poems by Yesenin and Shershenevich, memoirs by Marienhof, and plays by Erdman are still in print and always in demand.
After the disappearance of the group, the "young imaginists" declared themselves followers of this trend in the early 1930s, and so did the "meloimaginists" of the 1990s.[2]
Vadim Gabrielevich Shershenevich (1893-1942) - Russian avant-garde poet, theorist of imagism. The son of the outstanding jurist Professor Gavriil Feliksovich Shershenevich. Since 1907, V. Shershenevich has lived in Moscow, studying at the famous private gymnasium of L.I. Polivanov (previously graduated from S.M. Solovyov, V. Bryusov, Andrei Bely), then - the philological faculty of the University of Munich, the law and mathematics faculties of the university Moscow. He began writing poetry while still in high school, and at the age of eighteen, as a student, he published his first collection of poetry.
In 1913, V. Shershenevich’s work took a turn from symbolism to futurism. Together with Grail Arelsky, L. Zak, Rurik Ivnev and others, he creates a group of egofuturists. Soon he begins to develop the theory of imagism. In 1918, the poet became close to S. Yesenin and A. Mariengof. The “Order of Imagists” was established. V. Shershenevich became the main theorist of imagism; in January 1919, the “Declaration” was published. Finally, he wrote a series of essays about the work of his friends in the order - Mariengof, Ivnev, Kusikov and Yesenin, entitled “Whom I shake hands with.” In them, the author, knowing the depths of the poetry of his fellow writers, talks about the most important features of their work, shows the influence of the personality of each of the presented poets on it. The book contains many extracts from the poetic works of Yesenin, Mariengof, Kusikov and Ivnev, representing different aspects of the talent of one or another representative of imagism. The book is an important source about the life and work of the circle’s representatives and the relationships between them.
In 1926, V. Shershenevich published his last collection of poetry, “So the Bottom Line.” In it he moved away from imagist poetics. The group's existence is over. V. Shershenevich died in 1942 in Barnaul while being evacuated from a transient illness.
Вадим Габриэлевич Шершеневич (1893-1942) - русский поэт-авангардист, теоретик имажинизма. Сын выдающегося правоведа профессора Гавриила Феликсовича Шершеневича. С 1907 года В.Шершеневич живет в Москве, учится в известной частной гимназии Л.И.Поливанова (ранее ее закончили С.М.Соловьев, В.Брюсов, Андрей Белый), затем - филологический факультет Мюнхенского университета, юридический и математический факультеты университета Московского. Стихи начал писать еще в гимназии и в восемнадцать лет, студентом, напечатал первый поэтический сборник.
В 1913 году в творчестве В.Шершеневича происходит поворот от символизма к футуризму. Вместе с Граалем Арельским, Л.Заком, Рюриком Ивневым и другими он создает группу эгофутуристов. Вскоре он начинает разрабатывать теорию имажинизма. В 1918 году поэт сблизился с С.Есениным и А.Мариенгофом. Был учрежден «Орден имажинистов». В.Шершеневич стал основным теоретиком имажинизма, в январе 1919 года была опубликована «Декларация». Наконец, он написал серию эссе о творчестве своих друзей по ордену - Мариенгофа, Ивнева, Кусикова и Есенина под названием «Кому я жму руку». В них автор, зная глубины поэзии своих товарищей по перу, говорит о важнейших чертах их творчества, показывает влияние на него личности каждого из представленных поэтов. В книге помещено много извлечений из стихотворных произведений Есенина, Мариенгофа, Кусикова и Ивнева, представляющих разные стороны таланта того или иного представителя имажинизма. Книга является важным источником о жизни и творчестве представителей кружка и отношениях между ними.
В 1926 году В.Шершеневич издал свой последний поэтический сборник «Итак итог». В ней он отошел от имажинистской поэтики. Существование группы
за кончилось. В.Шершеневич скончался в 1942 г. в Барнауле в эвакуации от скоротечной болезни.
Grigory Nikolaevich Petnikov (January 25 [February 6] 1894, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire - May 10, 1971 [1], Old Crimea, Kirov district, Crimean region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Russian poet, translator, publisher. Member of the USSR SP since 1955[1]. Member of the Union of “Chairmen of the Globe”. Born into the family of a Ukrainian nobleman-lieutenant and a Polish woman, the daughter of a regimental doctor.
He studied at the Kharkov gymnasium, in the fifth grade he published a handwritten magazine, and at the same time he became friends with Bozhidar (Gordeev). He studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University, and graduated from the Faculty of Law and Literature of Kharkov University.
In 1913, he became interested in poetry and joined the futurist camp. In 1914, together with Bozhidar and Nikolai Aseev, he founded the Liren publishing house in Kharkov, which published books and collections of futurists until 1922.
The October Revolution was met with enthusiasm. Participated in the Civil War. From March 1919, for a short time he headed the All-Ukrainian Literary Committee of the People's Commissariat of Education of Ukraine[2].
In 1925-1931. lived in Leningrad, worked as an employee of the Academia publishing house.
From 1931 to 1938 he lived in Moscow.
From 1938 to 1958 he lived in Maloyaroslavets.
From 1958 to 1971 he lived in Old Crimea. He was buried in the city cemetery in Old Crimea.
Awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor[1] and medals.
Petnikov’s early books lie in the mainstream of moderate futurism, they combine following Khlebnikov (including in his interest in Russian folklore) with the influence of romanticism (it is no coincidence that at the very beginning of his creative career Petnikov translated Novalis):
And you're still a nomad
Of my charred lines,
With the light listen to the eyes in them
A thundering horn at watering holes.
It was to Petnikov that Khlebnikov inherited the title of Chairman of the Globe. However, in Petnikov’s works, starting from the 1930s, no traces of futurism remain: this is completely ordinary Soviet poetry.
Petnikov also did a lot of literary translation: in the 1920s-1930s. - mainly German poetry (Rilke, Werfel, Ehrenstein, Heim and other expressionists), later - the myths of Ancient Greece, Ukrainian folk tales, in 1937 he made a translation of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, which was reprinted many times, etc.
Personal life
Wife (until 1924) - Vera Mikhailovna Sinyakova (1899-1973), later married to the prose writer S. G. Hecht.
Wife (from 1924 to 1932) - Melnikova Alexandra Fedorovna, later married to A.G. Bragin.
Григо́рий Никола́евич Пе́тников (25 января [6 февраля] 1894, Санкт-Петербург, Российская империя — 10 мая 1971[1], Старый Крым, Кировский район, Крымская область, УССР, СССР) — русский поэт, переводчик, издатель. Член СП СССР с 1955 года[1]. Член союза «Председателей земного шара». Родился в семье украинского дворянина-поручика и польки, дочери полко&