Shklovsky by Vitale Serena; Richards Jamie;

Author:Vitale, Serena; Richards, Jamie;
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

You knew Esenin, no? When he was still in his “peasant” period, before the revolution.

Yes, and I’ve written about the spats incident. When Zinaida Gippius asked him: “It seems you are wearing new gaiters?” and he replied, “They’re valenki, madam.” And they really were valenki. It was cold out, there was a terrible cold. Moreover, here in Russia, gaiters have never been popular. This episode took place in a very elegant house, a salon, the Muruzi House. At that time, we had this expression: “Merezhkovsky is at Dom Muruzi and he’s looking for the divine spirit floor by floor . . .” Gippius . . . You know what Gippius means? It comes from the Greek hippos, horse. We called her hippo. She was a baroness, of German origin, Von Hippius, and there was a horse on their coat of arms. She was a very haughty woman. A good writer, with a tragic streak, like Vyacheslav Ivanov. But at the same time, an unrealized writer. Anyway, as far as haughtiness is concerned, the proudest Russian was without a doubt Mayakovsky. I remember him declaiming, “Wilson, I mean . . . Woodrow, you want a wheelbarrow of my blood?” Yes, Russia is a very strange country, where you can even ask the dead to rise. And it’s even possible that they would . . . What was I talking about?

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