Сумасшедший корабль Ольга Форш

The book by the outstanding master of Soviet prose O. D. Forsh (1873-1961) includes works dedicated to contemporary events and people of the writer. The novel “The Crazy Ship,” which has not been republished since 1931 and is a vivid artistic document of the era of the beginning of Soviet literature, recreates pictures of the spiritual life of revolutionary Petrograd, the life and atmosphere of the Petrograd House of Arts. Stories from the collections "Everyman" (1923), "Summer Snow" (1925), "Moscow Stories" (1926) and others are a remarkable prose phenomenon of the 20s.
Introductory article by S. Timina.

The novel "Crazy Ship" was written by Olga Forsh in 1930, then published in a magazine and was not republished for a long time. The novel is based on the life of the Petrograd House of Arts (Disk), created in 1919 on the initiative of Chukovsky and with the close participation of Gorky , where writers and artists lived and worked - Alexander Blok (Gaetan), Andrei Bely (Alien Tourist), Evgeny Zamyatin (Sokhaty), Mikhail Slonimsky (Kopilsky)... The names are easy to guess, the life stories are almost genuine, but the main thing is that Forsh succeeded describe the fate of the Artist during the Revolution.