Foreign Publications of the Works by Nikolay Gumilyov in Russian: to the 130th Anniversary of the Poet’s Birth

In 2016, there was celebration of the 130th anniversary of N.S. Gumilyov’s birth, whose works were usually published during the Soviet period abroad, among Russian emigrants. In many ways due to those publications, the poet’s name and heritage have not been forgotten, and it was them that formed the basis for the later editions of Gumilyov’s works in the new Russia. This article displays the history of N.S. Gumilyov’s foreign works in Russian through the analysis of the materials from the electronic database “Books in Russian Published Abroad, 1927-1991”, developed by the Research Department of Bibliography of the Russian State Library. The article comprises Gumilyov’s works issued in different countries of the world and in different formats: separate editions (including reissues and reprints), collected works, collections, anthologies, almanacs, chrestomathies. This article is of scientific value because, for first time, there is paid close attention to the detailed bibliographical review of the foreign publications of Gumilyov’s works in Russian. Selection of the works, their description, and references to their history are of great theoretical and practical importance. It will help literary researchers and active readers better navigate in the foreign literature in Russian related to this subject.

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1. Gumilyovskie chteniya [Gumilyov’s Memory Reading]. Wien, Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien Publ., 213 p.

2. N.R. O trekh knigakh stikhov Gumilyova, Ikh dal’nii put’ lezhal v izgnan’e…: antologiya-khrestomatiya proizvedenii literatury i zhurnalistiki russkogo zarubezh’ya Dal’nego Vostoka [Their Long Way Led to the Exile...: Anthology of Literature and Journalism of Russian Expatriate Community of the Far East]. Khabarovsk, Tikhookean. gos. un-t Publ., 2011, 275 p.

3. Gumilyov N.S. Chuzhoe nebo : tret’ya kniga stikhov [Alien Sky: the Third Book of Poems]. Berlin, Petropolis Publ., 1936, 93, II p.

4. Gumilyov N.S. Sobranie sochinenii: v 4-kh t. [Collected Works: in 4 vol.]. Washington, Victor Kamkin Publ., 1962—1968.

5. Polanski P. Russkaya pechat’ v Kitae, Yaponii i Koree : katalog sobraniya Biblioteki im. Gamil’tona Gavaiskogo universiteta [Russian Publications in China, Japan and Korea: Catalog of a Collection at Hamilton Library of the University of Hawaii]. Moscow, Pashkov dom Publ., 2002, 203 p.

6. Putsyato I.A. Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov, poet-konkvistador, Gumilyov N.S. Zhemchuga : stikhi [Gumilyov N.S. Pearls: poetry.]. Shankhai, Drakon Publ., 1940, pp. 5—28.

7. Gumilyov N.S. Sobranie sochinenii v chetyrekh tomakh: stikhotvoreniya [Collected Works in 4 vol.: poem], Regensburg, 1947, vol. 1, pp. 3—12.

8. Gumilyov N.S. Otravlennaya tunika i drugie neizdannye proizvedeniya [Poisoned tunic and other unpublished works]. New York, Chekhov’s Publ., 1952, 239 p.

9. Iz arkhiva N.S. Gumilyova : neizdannye materialy dlya biografii Gumilyova i istorii literaturnykh techenii. New York, M.E. Tsetlina Publ., 1953, book 1, pp. 189—190.

10. Gumilyov N.S. Izbrannoe [Favorites]. Paris, Liberairie des Cinq Continents Publ., 1959, 234 p.

11. Gumilyov N.S. Neizdannye stikhi i pis’ma [Unpublished poems and letters]. Paris, YMCA-Press Publ., 1980, 227 p.

12. Gumilyov N.S. Neizdannoe i nesobrannoe [Unpublished or unassembled]. Paris, YMCA-Press Publ., 1986, 298 p.

13. Zolotnitskii D.I, El’zon M.D. Primechaniya, Gumilyov N.S. Dramaticheskie proizvedeniya. Perevody. Stat’i [Gumilyov N.S. Dramatic works. Translations. Articles]. Leningrad, Iskusstvo Publ., 1990, 404 p.