Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich

Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki: kn. 1. Sorochinskaia iarmarka, Maiskaia noch [Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka: part 1. Sorochintsi Fair, May Night,or the Drowned Maiden]

Bayreuth: Lorenz Ellwanger, 1946. DP edition. Original printed wrappers. Item #295

Octavo (21 x 15 cm). 50 pages. Text in Russian. With the "Approved by U.N.N.R.A TEAM 186" note on the back cover. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. OCLC located four institutional holdings as of November 2022.

Gogol's groundbreaking collection of short stories, published in a displaced persons camp in the aftermath of WWII, that formed the core of his style.

Displaced persons (DP) camps in Europe after World War II were established in Germany, Austria, and Italy, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and former prisoners of Nazi German concentration camps. Two years after the end of World War II in Europe, about 850,000 people lived in DP camps, including Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, and Czechoslovaks. The Allies classified the refugees as "displaced persons" (DPs) and made the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) responsible for their care.

Over fifty Russian émigré publishing houses were founded in the DP camps. Such publications are essential historical materials describing the post-war events from the point of view of the representatives of the "second wave" of the Russian emigration.

Price: $300.00