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as well as collections of the greatest
Russian Symbolist poets. A member of the city's cultural elite, Baltrušaitis was a close friend and colleague of such famous Russian writers and artists as
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Baltrušaitis published three collections of poetry in
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by Hamsun is considered a classical rendering of this work into
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gymnasium, and graduated in 1893; he then entered the
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