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In the article the author sketches the personal and professional relations between Viktor Zhirmunskii and Mikhail Kuzmin (1917–1931). Included are seven letters from Zhirmunskii to Kuzmin, concerning a possible publication of Zhirmunskiiʼs study of Briusovʼs poetry and the publication of Kuzminʼs translation of Byronʼs Don Juan, respectively.
In the period of aestheticism and dandyism Kuzmin created a personal myth with the aid of the sense of smell in both his literary work and in his behaviour. Smells and aromas are varied and multifunctional; their meaning is determined by natural and cultural models and mystical, biographical and erotical contexts. In his interpretation of olfactory sensations Kuzmin is guided by existing attitudes...
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