Diary of My Encounters. A Cycle of Tragedies

24 hrs. 0 min.

Author Yury Annenkov

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

The remarkable Russian artist Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov (1889–1974) spent the last half-century of his life abroad, in France. The book “Diary of My Meetings” is a memoir of outstanding figures of Russian culture, many of whom the author was personally friends with. A. Blok, A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilyov, G. Ivanov, V. Khlebnikov, S. Yesenin, V. Mayakovsky, M. Gorky, A. Remizov, B. Pasternak, E. Zamyatin, B. Pilnyak, I. Babel, M. Zoshchenko, V. Meyerhold, V. Pudovkin, N. Evreinov, S. Prokofiev, M. Larionov, N. Goncharova, A. Benois, K. Malevich, and others appear on the pages of “Diary…” captured by the sharp eye of the artist. Alongside people of art, state and party figures from the first years of the revolution are also present—above all Lenin and Trotsky.