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Eliasberg, Alexander and David. русской нарнассЪ (Leipzig: Insel Verlag, ©1920) – “Russian Parnassus”
Quarto. 332 pages in Russian cyrillic. Hardcover in brown paper covered boards stamped in black on front board and spine for title and gold for Bibliotheca Mundi device on front cover.
Condition: Minor wear to corners, slight lean to spine. Else VG.
Alexander Eliasberg (born July 22, 1878 in Minsk, Russian Empire, died July 26, 1924 in Berlin) was a Jewish-Russian literary historian, translator, publisher and author.
After studying in Moscow, Eliasberg emigrated to Munich in 1905. In 1907 he published his first translation, an anthology of contemporary Russian lyric poetry. In 1922 he published along with his brother David Eliasberg (1897-1920) the Russian Parnassus in the series Bibliotheca mundi. This poetry collection, published in the Russian original language, brings together authors from Lomonosov to Anna Akhmatova.
