Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Valentinovich (1862 - 1938)	Zacharovannia step´. Revel´ [Tallinn,] Izdatel´stvo 'Bibliofil', [1921] [182 p.]	€150

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8 vo., publishers wrs. VERY GOOD. PARTUALLY UNCUT. Our copy is from Nils Bergstrand library, bearing his signature and inscription 'Stockholm 1921'. Inscription in pencil '2.50 kr' (probably the price paid for the book in 1921). Notes in pencil in neat writing through the text. 'Aleksandr Valentinovich Amfiteatrov (1862-1938) was born in Russia. He became a fairly well known journalist and popular novelist. In 1902 he was exiled for writing a satirical article on the imperial family. He returned, then emigrated to France in 1905. During the First World War Amfiteatrov returned to Russia once more and in 1916 became editor of the nationalist newspaper 'Russkaya volya' He left Russia for the last time in 1920 to settle in Italy. In 1927 he joined an anti-Soviet secret Society 'Bratstvo Russkoi Pravdy' [Brotherhood of Truth] (infiltrated by GPU agents and agents-provocateurs, according to Roman Goul´s opinion - AYG). He died at Levanto, Italy in 1938.'--Anon. Amfiteatrov is one of the most talented and prolific Russian satiric writers and journalist of early 1900s, contributor to liberal satirical magazine 'Oskolki' and forgotten historian. The inventor of collective nickname 'Gospoda Obmanovy' for the Romanovs family. 'Born a priest's son [...], he was trained as a lawyer but became a journalist and popular novelist. [...] He left Russia with his family in August 1921; until the spring of 1922 he lived in Prague, then settled in Italy, where he wrote for many émigré journals. [...] His sons were Vladimir Amfiteatrov-Kadashev, a writer and journalist (and friend of Nabokov); Daniele Amfitheatrof, a composer; and the musicians Maksim and Roman Amfiteatrov.- '- Wikipedia