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Anatoly Mariengof

Anatoly Mariengof (1897-1962) was a Russian writer and poet. His short story Cynics (Glas One) was set in Moscow during the start of the Lenin era. Novel Without Lies is a part-biographical story of "the last poet of wooden Russia" Sergey Esenin (1895–1925). First published in 1927, the book was soon banned as an insult to the "people's poet" and was reprinted only sixty years later in 1988.

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A novel without lies

Extract from Anatoly Mariengof’s controversial memoir, which was banned for sixty years, of the turbulent life of Russia’s “people’s poet” Sergey Esenin.