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Title page of the 1937 academic complete works of Pushkin

1937

A scanned title page from the 1937 scholarly Soviet edition collecting Pushkin's own poems and works.

This is a later scholarly edition collecting and presenting Pushkin's poems from 1817 to 1824.

Title page of a Russian book in Cyrillic: 'ПУШКИН, ТОМ ЧЕТВЕРТЫЙ, ПОЭМЫ 1817-1824' in black and red type, with a decorative rule and publisher 'Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1937' at the bottom.
Title page, Complete Academic Works of Pushkin, 1937 edition.

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What it is

This is a scan of the title page of volume four of the 1937 academic edition of Pushkin's complete works, published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, covering poems from 1817 to 1824.

Why it matters

Scholarly editions like this one gather Pushkin's writings into a standard, carefully checked text, which is how most readers and students encounter his poems today. It reflects how later generations worked to preserve and organise his legacy.

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  • Why might scholars create a large multi-volume edition of one writer's works?
  • What does the choice of publisher (the Academy of Sciences) tell us about how Pushkin was valued in 1937?
  • What is lost when we read a poem in an edited book rather than in the author's own manuscript?

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