ABSTRACT
Sergei Makovskii (1877-1962),1 mentioned by Gleb Struve (1969: 179) as the first example of those men of letters who used the expression “Silver Age,” gave the second of his books of recollections and thoughts about that period the title On the Parnassus of the Silver Age (Makovskii 1962). These memoirs became quite popular both among the historians of twentieth-century Russian literature and the general readers. As a source, they must be accepted with the greatest caution. Suffice it to say that the aged memorialist quoted, by heart as it were, a fairly long poem by Count Vasilii Komarovskii with a few errors and (acknowledged) omissions, but suggested that the piece had never been published [ne bylo, kak budto, napechatano] (1962: 239). Yet Makovskii had published it himself in Apollon (1916, No. 8:47).
