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As I wrote a couple of years ago, Oscar Wilde had a particular following in early twentieth-century Russia.  Here is another example: the first separate edition in Russian of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), printed in Moscow in a limited edition of just 500 numbered copies in 1906. It is the first appearance of this translation.  Others […]

I had quite a lot of interest in my recent blog about the early reception of Oscar Wilde in Russia, so I thought I would post some more. Here’s the first edition of Konstantin Balmont’s translation of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, published in Moscow in 1904.  The cover is by the decadent artist Modest […]