Habent sua fata libelli et homines (Memoir and bibliographic notes)

Abstract

The present article focuses on four books from the author’s personal library. These books are collections of poems by brilliant Russian poets, the most famous ones in the 1960s and later. The author discusses the editorial history of these books, the way these rare and precious copies ended up on his bookshelf, as well as the people he was friends with during that time.

Keywords

• boris pasternak
• marina tsvetaeva
• osip mandelstam
• anna akhmatova
• “poet's library”