MEREZKOVSKY Dmitry Sergeevich
NAPOLEON
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Translated from the original by Pawel Hulka-Lasowski.
Fonts of the National Printing House in Cracow.
Warsaw, Trzaska, Evert, Michalski, pp. 326, 31k. plates illustrated (on pastedowns); format 19 x 25.5 cm
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merzhkovsky is a writer, poet, literary critic, historian, philosopher and Russian translator of the Silver Age, one of the first founders of Russian Symbolism. During the 1905 Revolution, he became involved on the side of the revolutionaries, which caused him to face tsarist harassment and, as a result, he had to emigrate to Paris. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he again had to save himself by fleeing - first to Poland and, consequently, to Paris, where he began fierce anti-Bolshevik activity, for which his works were banned and withdrawn from circulation. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but receiving it was prevented by the support he gave to Hitler. He was not rehabilitated in Russia until after 1990.
The work offered here is already a classic biography of the Emperor.
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