Sannikov, Grigorii Aleksandrovich (1899 - 1969)	Krasnaia ploshchad´. Izbrannye poemy. M., - L., Gosudarstvennoe izdatel´stvo, 1929. [96 p.,] full page portr.	€90,00

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8 vo., publisher´s linen binding. VERY GOOD. This collection of poems was banned after Boris Pil´niak´s arrest in 1937. Sannikov dedicated poem 'Uglich' to Boris Pil´niak in the days of latter´s fame and up to 1937 the poem was published with this dedication. One of the bizarre and ghastly parts of poem 'Red Square' describes poet´s communications with resurrected Lenin at Red Square in the night in all details. Some of Sannikov´s poems had to be 'adjusted' in accordance with CPSU´s 'Red line' in literature in all later editions.The author joined Communist Party as early as 1917. He was famous for his better contacts at CK Agitation and Propaganda Department. Sannikov attended Shaniavskii’s People’s University. His first collection of verse was published already in 1921. Sannikov was one of the organizers of the literary association known as The Smithy (Kuznitsa). He participated in the October Revolution of 1917, the Civil War (1918–20), and the Great Patriotic War. In works such as the narrative poem 1917 (1927) and the poems “Farewell to the Kerosene Lamp” (1928) and “To My Contemporaries” (1957), he discusses the hopes and experiences of his generation in accordance with Party´s major directive for literary hacks. During last years of his life composed a cycle of poems about space travel. See: Izbrannoe, 1919–1956. (1957), Tarasenkov, RSPP.