Thirty-Three Monsters

by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, Eleonore de Montesquiou (translator)

Thirty-Three Monsters by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, is a novella in the form of a diary, first published in St. Petersburg in 1907. In the "Silver Age" of Russian literature, Lydia Zinovieva Annibal ran a literary salon there, "The Tower" together with her husband, the symbolist Viacheslav Ivanov. As the first lesbian novella, under the name 33 Abominations and the Devil was quickly banned in Russia and is now published for the first time as a bilingual edition in English and Russian. The French-Lithuanian artist Eléonore de Montesquiou illustrated the book and Jenni Zinovieff has produced a new translation into English.

176 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal (Russian: Лидия Дмитриевна Зиновьева-Аннибал) (1866–1907) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist.

Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov. Her short novel Tridsat'-tri uroda (Thirty-Three Abominations) was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.

(from Wikipedia)