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Nelidova-Fiveyskaya L. Slave of Honor: Poem. Second edition. New York, 1936, 68 pp., with illustrations. 24 x 15.8 cm.

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Lidiya Yakovlevna Nelidova-Fiveyskaya (1894- 1978) - ballerina, poetess, wife of conductor Mikhail Mikhailovich Fiveysky. She performed in provincial theaters. In 1921 she emigrated and lived in the USA. In exile she published three collections of poems: “Snowdrops” (New York, 1927), “From Foreign Shores” (New York, 1939), “Captured Moments” (New York, 1952), a poem about Pushkin “Slave of Honor” (Chicago, 1929; New York, 1936), in 1943, the novel “The Right to Life.” In 1956, L. Fiveyskaya returned to the USSR. She lived in Irkutsk, Kharkov, and later settled in Moscow. Author of memoirs about outstanding musicians "On the Strings of Memory". L. Fiveyskaya died in 1978 and was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery.