EDNOTE My thanks to Mr. Svirilin. My senescent memory led me to blend poets Sasha Chornyi and Dem'yan Bednyi.  Curious.
 
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From: Aleksandr Svirilin
To: D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: VN and Soviet Literary Criticism

>EDNOTE.  Chaplygin's is probably a bit earlier than Vinogradov's. The latter
>was commenting on VN's Onegin's scholarship while Chaplygin directly
>addresses LOLITA. Actually, a Soviet newpaper in the Twenties heaped scorn
>on a Nabokov poem. Sasha Bednyi, was it?
 
Не Саша, а Демьян. Демьян Бедный.
 
АС