Chinese Shadows

“Chinese Shadows” is a collection of memoir prose by Georgy Ivanov (1894–1958).
Ivanov was called the last living poet of the Silver Age. However, he became famous not only for his magnificent poetry but also for his recollections. After the publication... of individual essays, angry responses came from Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Igor Severyanin.
But no one contested that the poet perfectly conveyed the “spirit of the era,” that he managed to capture the very soul of the mythic city, already described from there, from the “emigrant tale.” “Wandering Dog” and “Poets’ Workshop,” Blok and Gumilev, Akhmatova and Mandelstam, Yesenin and Gorodetsky, a multitude of faces and episodes — the Atlantis that has sunk to the bottom, once called the “capital of capitals”…