{"product_id":"mikhail-kuzmin-john-e-malmstad-9780674530874","title":"Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eMikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russia's first openly gay writer, stood at the epicenter of the turbulent cultural and social life of Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad for over three decades. A poet of the caliber of Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelshtam, and Marina Tsvetaeva (and acknowledged as such by them and other contemporaries), Kuzmin was also a prose writer, playwright, critic, translator, and composer who was associated with every aspect of modernism's history in Russia, from Symbolism to the Leningrad \u003ci\u003eavant-gardes\u003c\/i\u003e of the 1920s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly now is Kuzmin beginning to emerge from the \"official obscurity\" imposed by the Soviet regime to assume his place as one of Russia's greatest poets and one of this century's most characteristic and colorful creative figures. This biography, the first in any language to be based on full and uncensored access to the writer's private papers, including his notorious \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e, places Kuzmin in the context of his society and times and contributes to our discovery and appreciation of a fascinating period and of Russia's long suppressed gay history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John E. Malmstad, Nikolay Bogomolov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067453087X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674530874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.58h x 6.49w x 1.59d","brand":"John E. Malmstad","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120027234559,"sku":"9780674530874","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffb178fc-5be9-43d9-83cc-479c8e855087.jpg?v=1687412168","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mikhail-kuzmin-john-e-malmstad-9780674530874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}