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Moskva, Obshchestvo rasprostraneniya poleznykh knig, 1901.First Russian separate book edition with Hood's verses.Rare.The book contains 7 verses: The Bridge of Sighs; The Song of the Shirt; The Lady's Dream; The Lee Shore; The Dream of Eugene Aram; The Lay of the Laborer; A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months.
For the first time Hood's poem, The Song of the Shirt, was published in magazine Sovremennik (â„– 9, 1860). However, the poem was interpreted as 'politically dangerous' and was banned, especially among young people.OCLC locates one copy of this edition in USA only: in the UC Berkeley Libraries.

Moskva, Khudozhestvennaya literature, 1946.Galley proof for the first edition of Don Juan in Georgy Shengeli's translation. One line handwritten by the translator: 'Pust' nasha molitva letit, svetla, '[And whatsoe'er may be his prayer, / Let ours be for his soul]. (Canto XVI, p. 496).In good condition, small losses of paper on the cover, worn to edges, stains, proofreader's marks, desktop publisher's and printing house's stamps, owner's marks (comparisons with early translations).Georgy Shengeli (1894-1956), Russian poet, translator and literary scholar. He published no new poetry of his own after 1935. The translation of Don Juan was begun in 1938 and completed in 1943. The book was issued on the fall 1947. Poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak highly appreciated this translation.Shengeli's translation was criticized by Ivan Kashkin, a translator of Anglo-American literature and the founder of literary translation in the USSR. Most likely, Kashkin was afraid that Shengeli's translation philosophy… Read More

Second Russian edition of the poem. First edition of this translation.
The first translation of Oscar Wilde's Ballad by N. Korn (presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky) appeared in 1903, but it was riddled with errors. The following year, another version by Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), a Russian symbolist poet and translator, was published. In the summer of 1902, Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading, where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903, Balmont delivered a lecture titled 'Oscar Wilde's Poetry and The Ballad...' and presented his translation at a meeting of the Literary-Artistic Circle in Moscow. During his lecture, he likened Wilde to Nietzsche and hailed him as 'the greatest English writer of the end of the last century.' Balmont also prepared translations of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, and Robert Burns. His translations were always infused with his own distinctive style, often referred to as 'Balmontic motifs.'
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Preface and translation by N. Gumilev.
First edition of this translation.
This poem, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), is often considered to mark a significant shift towards modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. It was translated into Russian for the first time in 1851 and the present translation appeared in Maxim Gorky's publishing house, Vsemirnaia literature (World Literature). The translator was Nikolay Gumilev (1886–1921), a poet and co-founder of the Acmeist movement and husband of Anna Akhmatova. Even though the translation was made more than a hundred years after the creation of the original, it is still considered "almost faultless" to this day. Gumilev meticulously adhered to the "nine precepts of the translator" that he established, carefully observing the number of verses, meter, rhymes, vocabulary, and sense of the original. Furthermore, the preservation of Coleridge's glosses (marginal notes) in Gumilev's translation demonstrates his… Read More

Translation by B. Pasternak.
[Preface and comments by M. Morozov].
Signed and inscribed by the translator Boris Pasternak: "Komu vynetsia / tomu sbudetsia. / B Pasternak . 6 ianv. 1947 g. / Moskva". [Whoever pulls up it, will get it. B. Pasternak. January 6th, 1947. Moscow].
Most likely, this signed copy was a prize in some game. Third edition of Hamlet in Pasternak's translation.
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), a Nobel laureate, translated eight of Shakespeare's plays into Russian: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, two parts of Henry IV, King Lear, and Macbeth. This was a way for him to work as a man of letters and avoid repression. His main goal as a translator was to make Shakespeare a Russian poet. In 1943, the British Embassy wrote a letter to Pasternak expressing gratitude for his work on the translations.
In 1939, Vsevolod Meyerhold requested Pasternak's translation of Hamlet for the Aleksandrinsky Theater. Following Meyerhold's arrest that year and the murder of his wife,… Read More

Translation by A. Radlova. Preface by K. Derzhavin.
Afterword by M. Morozov.
One of 10 000 copies published.
Signed and inscribed by the translator: "Dorogoi moei Sarushke / ot Annushki. / 20-X-37" [To my dear Sarushka from Annushka. October 20, 1937].
First edition of this translation.
Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet, literary salon-holder, and wife of Sergei Radlov, the theatre director, prepared the translation of this book. Her Shakespeare translations of Romeo and Juliet (1933), Othello (1935), and Hamlet (1937) were highly popular in the early 1930s and were used in the theatre productions by her husband in the Leningrad Malyi Theater. Radlova's translations were considered innovative and precise, and Boris Pasternak, the next translator of Hamlet, admired her work for its authenticity. During World War II, Anna and her husband were evacuated from Leningrad to the North Caucasus and later ended up in Germany. In 1945 after returning they were accused of treason. Anna Radlova died in a GULAG.… Read More