Courtyard of Miracles. Odoevtseva I.V.

On the literary map of the Silver Age, Irina Odoevtseva, “a little poet with a large bow,” as she called herself, and the beloved student of Nikolai Gumilyov, occupies a special place. Her first collection of “Courtyard of Miracles” (1922) was a noticeable event in literary life and was amicably approved by criticism. “The style of the style is like that of Odoevtseva, is a sign of a very large talent,” wrote Vladimir Pyast. And even the stinging Leo Trotsky honored his praise to Odoevtsev, highlighting the “courtyard of miracles” among the “Books and the Book”: “Very, very cute poems”. However, fame came to her even earlier. At poetic evenings, the young Odoevtseva was very popular and read her poems with brilliance, including the famous "Ballad of Crowned Glass." She was immediately noted by Alexander Blok, she was admired by Korney Chukovsky, Mikhail Lozinsky and Georgy Ivanov.

In 1922, Irina Odoevtseva left Russia and spent most of her life in France, but in 1987 she returned to her homeland, where she happened to see her books with huge circulations published in the USSR. In addition to memoir prose, Odoevtseva’s work includes several novels translated into many languages, as well as seven poetic collections that have become an integral part of Russian poetry of the twentieth century.