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KLIUEV, NIKOLAI. 1884-1937. Autograph Manuscript Signed, 1 p, 4to, n.p., 1925,
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KLIUEV, NIKOLAI. 1884-1937.
Autograph Manuscript Signed, 1 p, 4to, n.p., 1925, being an early draft of the poem "Ot ikony Borisa i Gleba" [From the Icon of St. Boris and St. Gleb], light foxing and offset, left margin rough.
Provenance: Vladimir Glotser Archive, Moscow.
Kliuev was the leader of what were known as "the peasant poets." He was the mentor and possible lover of the most famous of these, Sergei Esenin. Associated with the Symbolists, Kliuev's highly distinctive poetry makes reference to folklore, religion, mysticism, politics and same sex love. The homo-eroticism is all the more remarkable when one considers that he was writing for a suppressed society during a highly oppressive era; he even espoused that Christ Himself was homosexual. Kliuev was arrested in 1934 as an opponent to Soviet ideology for his poem "Pogorelshchina" ["The Burned Ruins"] and sent into exile; he was rearrested and executed in 1937. This early draft is the first part of the poem that was not published in its complete form until the appearance of the collected works of 1954. The martyrs Boris and Gleb were the first saints canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church after the nation converted to Christianity; the two saints were often venerated through double icons.
Provenance: Vladimir Glotser Archive, Moscow.
Kliuev was the leader of what were known as "the peasant poets." He was the mentor and possible lover of the most famous of these, Sergei Esenin. Associated with the Symbolists, Kliuev's highly distinctive poetry makes reference to folklore, religion, mysticism, politics and same sex love. The homo-eroticism is all the more remarkable when one considers that he was writing for a suppressed society during a highly oppressive era; he even espoused that Christ Himself was homosexual. Kliuev was arrested in 1934 as an opponent to Soviet ideology for his poem "Pogorelshchina" ["The Burned Ruins"] and sent into exile; he was rearrested and executed in 1937. This early draft is the first part of the poem that was not published in its complete form until the appearance of the collected works of 1954. The martyrs Boris and Gleb were the first saints canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church after the nation converted to Christianity; the two saints were often venerated through double icons.