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"Gorky was appalled...by the daily deaths and deprivations, which threatened to wipe off the face of the earth not only middle-aged and older scholars and scientists of world renown but the entire intelligentsia as a class. The only ones with some hope of survival were those who could claim a proletarian background and those who by some miracle had been hired by the Soviets to work in a bureau or supply depot."

When he needed money in the late 1920s, Khodasevich had sold Diaghilev his first editions of Pushkin, which he had been collecting since he was a young man. The collection had been brought by him from Russia in 1925, and here it was intact, in the old nineteenth-century bindings.