Cherubin de Gabriac. Incorrect comet. Pogorelaya E.

With the light hand of Maximilian Voloshin, the name of Cheryubina de Gabriac was imprinted in the history of the Silver Age poetry instantly and firmly - while the name of the one who participated in the creation of this chimera turned out to be crossed out and forgotten for many decades. Meanwhile, the life of Elizabeth Ivanovna Dmitrieva: the poet, translator, playwright, secretary and occultists - is much more interesting and saturated than the bright biography of a fictional poetic one -day, from whose name she wrote poetry for some time. How did Dmitrieva enter the domestic poetry of the XX century, who did she stay in her? How did it happen that, due to the nondescript "plebem of Khromosi, Voloshin and Gumilev almost killed each other? How did, finally, the fate of Lily Dmitrieva developed after a duel? This book is an attempt to reconstruct the real biography of the one that is known under the name of the Cherubine de Gabrica: the most famous mystification of the Silver Age and, according to A. Tolstoy, the “most fantastic and sad” figure in Russian literature.