Cherubina de Gabriak.Nevernaia kometa - Pogorelaia E.A.

With the easy hand of Maximilian Voloshin, the name of Cherubina de Gabriel was imprinted in the history of silver age poetry instantly and firmly - while the name of the one who participated in the creation of this chimera was crossed out and forgotten for many decades. Meanwhile, the life of Elizaveta Dmitrieva: poet, translator, playwright, secreteer and occultist - much more interesting and rich than a vivid biography of a fictional poetic one-day, on whose behalf she wrote poems for some time. How did Dmitrieva enter the domestic poetry of the 20th century, who did she stay in it? How did it happen that because of the nondescript "plebeik of chromusha" almost killed each other Voloshin and Gumilev? How, finally, was the fate of Lily Dmitrieva after the duel? This book is an attempt to reconstruct the real biography of the one known as Cherubina de Gabrielak: the most famous hoax of the Silver Age and, according to Tolstoy, the "most fantastic and sad" figure in Russian literature.