Collected poems of Tsvetaeva

[crculver.livejournal.com]

I enjoy the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, and will be in Moscow again in the near future, so I would like to know if there is an edition of the collected works of this poetess. I have already bought a few of the small collections, but would like the whole oeuvre. Who has edited her collected works, how many volumes is it, in which bookstore in Moscow could I be sure to find it?

Please let me know if there are other communities here to which it would be worth cross-posting this.

Comments

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

There was a 1994 edition in 7 volumes (Ellis Luck Publishers) - take a look on OZON (http://www.ozon.ru/context/outofprint_detail/id/2269230/). It is out of print now. If you buy it from OZON on the territory of Moscow City, it's about 5,000 roubles (cca USD 200.) Unfortunately, I haven't seen much of other editions of her collected works.
There is also a Web site (http://www.ipmce.su/~tsvet/WIN/index.html) with tons of her works.

[crculver.livejournal.com]

I assume that set is leather-bound or something, because US$200 is an absurd price to pay for books in Russia. I daresay I could approximate her collected works by buying all extent selections for less than $50. But thanks for the suggestion, I shall investigate.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Rbl 5,000 too expensive for SEVEN VOLUMES, out-of-print, collector's item? You've got to be kidding, or you have last purchased books in Russia well before 2002 (when the book prices jumped up, because the taxation of book edition and printing increased dramatically.)

[crculver.livejournal.com]

If it was published as a collector's item, then I could understand the price. I wish I could find something cheaper, though, even if the binding is shoddy.

I last bought books in Russia last summer. The two Tsvetaeva collections I bought then were less than US$5 together.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I have taken a look on what OZON offers (http://www.ozon.ru/?context=advsearch_book&author=%ec%e0%f0%e8%ed%e0+%f6%e2%e5%f2%e0%e5%e2%e0&availability=1) - yes, of course, for single "selected lyrics" editions they would charge you from $2 to $10, with the approx.average of $4 - $5. But there was only one Collected Works edition available (the one I've mentioned above,) and it's Rbl 5,012 (approx. $180.)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, her collected works are also available on a DVD-Rom (http://www.cdvseti.ru/id1297.html) (barely legal, I suppose.)

[crculver.livejournal.com]

Much of Tsvetaeva's oeuvre was written before 1923 or so, so it is no longer protected by copyright. As for the rest of her work, a loophole in Russian copyright laws means that things published internationally before, I believe, 1968 can be freely copied in Russia.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

This "loophole" (which allowed Russian publishers to republish stuff originally printed before 1973, the year the U.S.S.R. joined the Bern copyright convention, free of charge) has been closed by the 1995 and 2004 Russian Federation Copyright Law (http://www.fips.ru/avp/law/5351-1SN.HTM) amendements.
When I say "barely legal" about a DVD-Rom, I mean that I seriosly doubt that the producers of that DVD-Rom were the editors of the compilation. I know how they do it in Russia. The most likely, it was simply digitized from the 1994 book edition -- which was, no doubt, protected by copyright, at least as the editor's work.

[surok75.livejournal.com]

To add my 2c - asking 'in which bookstore in Moscow am I sure to find it' - bad question.

Yeah, the supply chain has improved immensely. But if it's a book with a small print run which other people have been looking out for, and then someone discovers it and tells their friends, it can be there in the morning, and gone in the evening.

Given that there doesn't seem to be a recent edition over here, you could try second hand bookstores which specialize in Slavics whereever you are based.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

It looks like the most reasonable thing is to order it from OZON when in Russia. You can get it delivered to a certain address within Moscow city limits by a courier within three days, and pay cash to the courier; or to order it by post (outside of Moscow is OK,) and pay for the parcel at the post office when it's delivered. I did it many times.

I doubt that even the biggest used books sections at the places like Biblioglobus or Dom Knigi have a set of all seven volumes any given day, since it's out of print.

[verushka.livejournal.com]

There is a museum of Marina Zvetaeva in the town of Tarussa not far from Moscow. If you are intersted in her poetry and in the history of her life you have to visit it. The place is very romantic and full of sadness...

[sonte.livejournal.com]

Bibliography (http://tsvetaeva.km.ru/WIN/biblio/index.html).
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