Золотое руно - La Toison d'Or, No. 5 - 1906

by Riabouchinsky, Nicolas (Ed.)

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Moscow: Imprimerie de la Société J. N. Kouchnerev et Cie, 1906. First edition. Softcover. f to vg. Folio. [8], 96pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Frontispiece. Decorative head-, and tailpieces. Striking fifth issue of "La Toison d'Or" (The Golden Fleece), a luxurious artistic and literary review published in Moscow between 1906 and 1909. The title is a reference to the St. Petersburg Symbolist* circle called the "Argonauts," (name of the band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece). Contributors included many of the foremost Russian artists and critics of the day, among them Aleksandr Blok (who edited the literary criticism section) and Leon Bakst, for the artistic section. Throughout the 34 issues of its existence, the Symbolist magazine set out to introduce the second generation of Russian Symbolist poets, writers and artists such as Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont, Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Sergey Alexeevich Sokolov-Krechetov, Mark Krinitsky, Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, Anatolii Arapov, Basil Milioti, Nikolai Feofilaktov, Vasily Denisov, Anne Goloubkine, Pavel Kuznetsov, Nikolai Sapunov, Martiros Saryan, Nikolay Petrovich Krymov, Alexander Sredine, Nikolai Pavlovich Ulyanov, Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov, Sergei Sudeikin, Alexej Jawlensky, Petr Utkin, Boris Anisfeld, and many others. The phase involving the second generation of Russian Symbolist pai

• Publisher: Imprimerie de la Société J. N. Kouchnerev et Cie
• Year: 1906
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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