Georgy Vladimirovich Ivanov—Russian poet and prose writer, a prominent representative of the émigré literature of the first wave.
“Petersburg Winters” is a memoir work that captures the spirit of a Petersburg that has vanished. The book transports readers to the atmosphere of the post-revolution city—its streets and embankments, the café “The Cellar of a Wandering Dog,” and Vyacheslav Ivanov’s apartment-tower. On its pages, images of Silver Age writers come alive—such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Kuzmin, Sologub, Yesenin, Gumilyov and others. Each of them finds their own path amid the conditions of emigration, death, and the acceptance of Soviet power.
The edition also includes selected poems.