Small 4to, attractive publishers covers in red and black with 'Alatas, Inc.' logo designed by Nicholas Roerich.The book was printed in New York, at Russian Press printing shop at 347 East 14 th. St. VERY GOOD.
102 copies of this book were printed on better rag paper for subscribers and as presentation copies only.Our copy has no number but bears inscription in the place where the number should be written in hand 'For dear Dr. Gunnar Jarring for the first aquentance [sic!] George Grebenstchikoff [sic!] December, 1934 - America'.
Georgii Dmitrievich Grebenshchikov was a Russian writer from the Altai region in Siberia. He escaped from Russia in 1920 and spent a few years in Berlin and Paris. In 1924 he moved to the United States. In 1925, he cofounded, together with Leo Tolstoy's son Ilia Tolstoy, the Churaevka community in Southbury, Connecticut for Russian émigré writers. From 1941 to 1952, he was a professor of Russian literature and history at Florida Southern College.Among his friends, supporters and associates were opera singer Fyodr Chaliapin, a Russian choreographer Michel Fokine, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, an artist Nicholas Roerich and many prominent writers and journalists of the period from Europe and the USA. |