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Man From the USSR & Other Plays

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  Skital’tsy (The Wanderers). A supposed translation of the first act of a play by the nonexistent English author “Vivian Calmbrood” (anagram). Berlin, Grani, March 1923.
  Smert’ (Death). A verse drama in two acts. Berlin, Rul’, 14 and 20 May 1923.
  Dedushka (The Grand-dad). A verse drama in one act. Berlin, Rul’, 14 October 1923.
  Agasfer.“A dramatic monolgue written as a prologue to a staged symphony” (VN’s subtitle). Berlin, Rul’, 2 December 1923. Performed once in Berlin.
  Traghediya Gospodina Moma (The Tragedy of Mr. Mom). A verse drama in five acts. Excerpt published Berlin, Rul’, 6 April 1924. Otherwise unpublished. Read by VN at a literary club meeting, early April 1924.
  Polyus (The Pole). A verse drama in one act. Berlin,Rul’, 14 and 16 August 1924.
  Chelovek iz SSSR (The Man from the USSR). Act one only: Berlin, Rul’, 1 January 1927. Staged in Russian in Berlin, 1926.
  Sobytie (The Event). A “dramatic comedy” (VN’s subtitle) in three acts.

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