On the banks of the Neva

In the late eighties, the book of 150,000 copies for the first time in Russia published the book of the poetess Irina Odoevtseva on the shores of the Neva for the first time in Russia, and at the end of the eighties. It was a live voice from a brilliant silver age. The heroes of this book are Russian poets Nikolai Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, George Ivanov ... Then, on the banks of the Neva "sounded for many as a revelation. And now, after years, this book is a monument to people and a monument to the era, created by a "small poetess with a huge bow" - reads with great interest, its characters are so “vividly” described. The phenomenal memory of Odoevtseva allowed her to reproduce conversations, discussions, and disputes of that time after many decades