Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2019-12-317-331 Articles Notes of a commentator. 9. Two unpublished poems about Odessa 2019 poems related to Odessa in the early 20th century Ivan Bunin Olga Rozanova Emile Verhaeren vorticism Sergey Bobrov Futuristic poetry archival publications Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article presents two unpublished poems by Sergey Bobrov, which fit into the history of projection of the common European urban topos to a specific locus — the South Russian port. Among the poets who embarked on this task in the 1910s are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Gumilev, Konstantin Bolshakov, David Burliuk, young Odessa poets Sophia Pregel and Elizaveta Furman-Styrskaya. Futuristic poetics minimized the connection with poetic descriptions of the city common for Pushkin's time (used by “traditionalists” of the 1910s, such as Modest Druzhinin) and neglected the centuries-old Odessa mythological allusions (inevitable Odysseus recalled by Gumilyov). 1. Bezrodnyi M. Mezhdu dvukh antologii (Poeticheskaia kar'era Sergeia Bobrova) [Between two anthologies. Sergei Bobrov’s career as a poet]. Modernizm i postmodernizm v russkoi literature i kul'ture [Modernism and postmodernism in Russian literature and culture]. Helsinki, 1996 (Slavica Helsingiensia, 16; Studia Russica Helsingiensia et Tartuensia, V), pp. 189–202. (In Russ.) 2. Boris Pasternak i Sergei Bobrov: Pis'ma chetyrekh desiatiletii [Boris Pasternak and Sergei Bobrov: Letters of four decades], publ. and intro. by M.A. Rashkovskaya. Vstrechi s proshlym. Vyp. 8 [Encounters with the past. Iss. 8]. Moscow, Russkaia kniga Publ., 1996, pp. 195–309. (In Russ.) 3. 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