Aleksey Koltsov. Poems.
Cover and drawings by artist Yashchuk N.A.
Published by Kniga, Moscow 1989. Only 7,000 copies.
Hard cover with jacket, 286 pages. Gilded edge. In Russian language.
Approx. size 87 x 103 mm.
Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (1809 – 1842) was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour. Koltsov earnestly collected Russian folklore which strongly influenced his poetry. He celebrated simple peasants, their work and their lives. Many of his poems were put to music by such composers as Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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