Evgeny Nikitin. LITTLE-KNOWN DETAILS ON A FORBIDDEN BOOK

The article relates a story about M. Gorky, who first gave Z.I. Grzhebin his consent to participate in the Historical-Revolutionary Almanac and wrote the article “The 9th ofJanuary” for it. But then he decided not to participate in the almanac and other editions of “The Shipovnik” and asked for the return of his manuscript. The publisher acceded to the request.

Evgenii Nikitin. THE TRAGIC FATE OF THE PUBLISHER ZINOVII GRZHEBIN

Describes the tragic fate of Z.I.Grzhebin (based on his correspondence with Maxim Gorky). He began his publishing business with satirical magazines “Bogey” and “Infernal Mail”. Then, together with S.Iu.Kopelman, he founded the publishing house “Shipovnik”. After the 1917 revolution, together with Gorky, Grzhebin organized the “Publishing house of Zinovii Grzhebin”. Soviet bureaucrats obstructed the work of this publishing house. Only V.I.Lenin, proceeding from his plans to expel Gorky from Russia, supported the publishers. After the departure of Gorky and Grzhebin abroad in 1921, the editions of Grzhebin’s publishing house were not allowed in Russia. Grzhebin went broke. He died in poverty in 1929.