![]() Osorgin's other major works are "Svidetel' istorii" (Witness of history 1932), "Kniga o kontsakh" (A book about ends 1935) and "Vol'nyi kamenshchik (The Freemason 1938). His first significant literary success was the 1928 novel Svitsev Vrazhek, which also captures the period of the Russian Civil War, with this collection a precursor. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1922 on the famous "steamship of philosophers" along with other vocal intellectual dissenters. Returning to Russian in 1916 he supported the February 1917 Revolution. His writings about Italy played a large part in the spread of Futurist ideas in Russia. Arrested for his political activity, upon release he left Russia, eventually settling in Italy where he joined the Masonic order in 1913. Osorgin graduated form the law faculty of the Moscow State University and took part in the 1905 Revolution. Written in the immediate post revolutionary moment in 1917-1919, it captures the turbulent transitional period of the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The first literary collection of short stories written by the prominent émigré journalist, writer and translator Mikhail Osorgin (1878-1942). ![]() ![]() Riga: Knigoizdatel'stvo Russkikh Pisatelei, 1921. ![]()
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