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Aleksandr Vvedenskii
Седьмое стихотворение
The seventh poem
Moscow: Goppe, 2016
228 x 228 mm. 12 pages
Edition: 12, copy № 3/12

‘The seventh poem’ by Aleksandr Vvedenskii (1904-1941) is the
seventh book in a series of 10 published and edited by Viktor
Goppe. They all have the same format but are illustrated with
lithographs by different artists. This book contains two poems by
Vvedenskii and two colour lithographs by Goppe. For the book
‘A discussion about cards’ (cat. 142) Vladimir Nemukhin (1925-
2016) designed the lithographs, while Francisco Infante (born
1943) designed the lithographs for ‘A discussion on the absence
of poetry’ (cat. 149), both are internationally recognized artists.
Nowadays the poet Aleksandr Vvedenskii (1904-1941) is
considered among Russian writers and literary scholars to be

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