Let's start with a photo – the one reproduced on the cover. It's the summer of 1914, we're in St. Petersburg, in the studio of the eminent photographer Karl Bulla. To the left of the viewer is Osip Mandelstam: a penetrating gaze, somewhere between dove and fox, the crystal of sprezzatura; the year before he had published his first collection, Kamen'. The one next to Mandelstam – open gaze, helmet-like hair and a moustache – is Korney Chukovsky (…
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Let's start with a photo – the one reproduced on the cover. It's the summer of 1914, we're in St. Petersburg, in the studio of the eminent photographer Karl Bulla. To the left of the viewer is Osip Mandelstam: a penetrating gaze, somewhere between dove and fox, the crystal of sprezzatura; the year before he had published his first collection, Kamen'. The one next to Mandelstam – open gaze, helmet-like hair and a moustache – is Korney Chukovsky (…