Zhila-byla perevodchitsa: Liudmila Savitskaia i Konstantin Bal'mont

Russian and French actress, writer and translator Lyudmila (Lucy) Savitskaya (1881-1957) is almost unknown to the modern Russian reader, but it is an important figure for understanding the phenomenon of transnational modernist culture in which she played the role of mediator. The history of her life and work is closely intertwined with the biographies of prominent figures of new art - from A., G. Apollinaire and E. Pound to D. Joyce, V. Bruce and M. Voloshin. A special place in it was occupied by the coryphaeus of early Russian modernism, the poet Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942), who was friends and collaborated with Lyudmila Savitskaya. Previously unpublished materials - diaries, correspondence and memoirs that shed light on their fleeting novel and subsequent years of relationships - make up the bulk of the book and cover little-known pages of the history of Russian culture first third of the 20th century.