Odoevtsev. Small collected works. Odoevtseva I.

Irina Odoevtseva - a Russian poetess, beloved student of Nikolai Gumilyov, who left Russia in 1922. She lived a long life and returned to her homeland in 1987 - the last representative of the distant stroke century. She happened to see her books published in the USSR-in the late 1980s, Odoevtseva’s memoirs were published. The heroes of these memoirs are Nikolai Gumilyov, Georgy Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam, Zinaida Gippius, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Bunin and many others. In exile, Irina Odoevtseva continued to write poetry, and also turned to artistic prose and gained fame as the author of novels and stories. The publicist Roman Gul noted: “The prose writer Odoevtseva is a rare gift: if you opened her book, you will not come off her until you read it to the end.” And today, a variety of both genre and thematic regarding the heritage of Irina Odoevtseva is of great interest.

in this publication, in addition to the success of the book “On the banks of the Neva”, is invariably successful, the novel “Angel of Death is included "(1927), stories and poems of different years.