“But I love my kurva-Moscow.” Osip Mandelstam. Poet and city: Leonid Vidgof

The book of Leonid Vidgof about Mandelstam is a unique phenomenon. “Moskvoyan studies” helps to understand the poems of the ingenious poet, poems make it possible to more deeply understand Moscow in all its historical multi -layer. The poet was born in Warsaw, grew up and studied in St. Petersburg, the first glory came to him there, but it was with Moscow that he was connected by all his nerves – from hatred to love, feeling himself and its “contemporary”, the man of the crowd, and an antipode, “tram cherry”, “sparrow”. An important part of the study of L. Vidgof is the reconstruction of the poet’s relations with the Moscow inhabitants: M. Tsvetaeva, V. Yakhontov, M. Petrov, B. Pasternak, S. Klychkov, S. Lipin, A. Omberskin, L. Bruni …

Author
Vidgof Leonid Mikhailovich
Publisher
Elena Shubina, 2012