[1887, last lifetime edition] Poems by A.N. Pleshcheev (1846-1886) with a portrait of the author. Published by V.M. ...

[1887, last lifetime edition] Poems by A.N. Pleshcheev (1846-1886) with a portrait of the author. Published by V.M. Moscow, printing house A.I. Mamontov, 1887, 575 pages, leather binding of the era, monogram A.T. at the bottom of the spine, minimal traces of use, minimal damage to fragments of the spine, owner's signature on the title page, strong block, collectible condition.
During his lifetime, five collections of poems by A. N. Pleshcheev were published, the last of them in 1887. The most significant posthumous publication is considered to be the one published under the editorship of P. V. Bykov: “Poems by A. N. Pleshcheev (1844-1891). Fourth, expanded edition." St. Petersburg, 1905. In Soviet times, Pleshcheev’s poetic works were published in the Big and Small series of the “Poet’s Library”.

Classic of Russian poetry Alexey Nikolaevich Pleshcheev (1825-1893) - Russian writer, poet, translator; literary and theater critic. In 1846, the very first collection of poems made Pleshcheev famous among revolutionary youth; as a member of the Petrashevsky circle, he was arrested in 1849 and some time later sent into exile, where he spent almost ten years in military service. Upon returning from exile, Pleshcheev continued his literary activity; Having gone through years of poverty and hardship, he became an authoritative writer, critic, publisher, and at the end of his life, a philanthropist. Many of the poet’s works (especially poems for children) have become textbooks and are considered classics. More than a hundred romances were written by the most famous Russian composers based on Pleshcheev’s poems.

It is believed that the significance of A. N. Pleshcheev’s work for Russian and Eastern European social thought significantly exceeded the scale of his literary and poetic talent. Since 1846, the poet's works have been assessed by critics almost exclusively in terms of socio-political significance. The collection of poems by A. N. Pleshcheev in 1846 became, in fact, a poetic manifesto for the Petrashevites circle. In his article, Valeryan Maikov[91], explaining what Pleshcheev’s poetry was for people of the 1840s, inspired by socialist ideals, placed the latter at the center of modern poetry and was even ready to consider him the immediate successor of M. Yu. Lermontov. “In the pitiful situation in which our poetry has found itself since the death of Lermontov, Mr. Pleshcheev is undoubtedly our first poet at the present time...” he wrote.

Subsequently, it was the revolutionary pathos of Pleshcheev’s early poetry that determined the scale of his authority in the revolutionary circles of Russia. It is known that in 1897, one of the first social democratic organizations, the South Russian Workers' Union, used the poet's most famous poem in its leaflet.