Poeziya Otechestvennoy Voiny. [The Poetry of the Patriotic War]. 3 vol.: Prepared by Vl. Rogov.

Shankhai, Epokha, 1943.
One of 400 numbered copies printed. Our copy is #112.
Rare and unusual Akhmatova's and Pasternak's publications.

This poetry anthology was prepared by a sinologist Vladimir Rogov (1906-1988), who worked at the Chinese Eastern Railway and was a press correspondent for TASS in China since 1937. He also participated in creation of Shidai/Epokha pro-Soviet publishing house in Shanghai. In February 1942 the Japanese started to arrest many foreign journalists, businessmen, and police officers. This anthology was issued in February 1943 and Rogov was forced to return to Moscow in April.
The books include war poetry of well-known contemporary Soviet authors like Konstantin Simonov, Vera Inber, Samuil Marshak, Sergey Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, all their names appeared in the Rogov's preface. But this anthology is mostly interesting for publishing verses by Boris Pasternak (four poems) and Anna Akhmatova (four poems, not two as noticed at Content page, including Kliatva and Kopai, moia lopata...) who had rare opportunities to publish their verses in Russia.
These publications still are not included in Akhmatova's and Pasternak's bibliographies.
OCLC locates one complete set of this edition in the US only: in the Princeton University Library. The University of Hawaii has a copy also. A single volume is in the New York Public Library.

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