Voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich

[SIGNED] Puti Rossii: Stikhotvoreniia (Пути России: Стихотворения)

Ekho, 1969. Second edition. Original publisher's cover. Item #357

Dimensions: 17 x 12.5 cm. 86 pages: illustration. Text in Russian. The copy is edited and SIGNED by Viacheslav Zavalishin. Minor wear and foxing to the cover; internally, very good.

Born on October 13, 1915, in Petrograd. His father, the former Social Revolutionary, was shot during the Yezhovshchina; his mother served time in the Dolinka women's camp near Karaganda. Before the war, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Leningrad University. He was acquainted with Kazimir Malevich, about whom he wrote a book containing memories of his student years in Leningrad. During the war, he was captured, escaped from a prisoner of war camp, and hid under a false name in Novgorod and Pskov; he was arrested by the German gendarmerie and sent to prison in Dvinsk, from there to the Pogulyanka penal camp (Latvia). He collaborated in the sub-German press and served in the ROA - General Vlasov's army. After the war, he remained in Germany and was in a camp for displaced persons in the American occupation zone. In 1951, he sailed from Bremer-Haffen to the USA on the ship General Taylor. He lived in New York, where he actively participated in emigrant cultural life. He wrote scripts for Radio Liberty, worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper "New Russian Word" for 40 years, and was on the Munich magazine "Literary Contemporary" editorial board. Since 1946, he published poems in the New Journal, Facets, Crossroads, Meetings, and Russian Life newspaper. While still in Germany, he published "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Pyotr Ershov, a volume of Yesenin's poems, and a four-volume work by Nikolai Gumilyov, author of the brochure "Andrei Rublev: from "Studies on Russian Icon Painting" (Munich, 1946), the books "Early Soviet Writers" (New York, 1958), "Malevich: Thoughts on Life and Work" (New York, 1991) and the poetic transcriptions of "Centuries" by Nostradamus (1976). He died of blood cancer in New York on May 31, 1995.

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