“Today marks seventy-five years since the death of Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov. “To fade before you have time to bloom” is the usual lot of Russian writers... But it seems that none of the outstanding Russian writers “faded” as early as Venevitinov. He went to his grave as a twenty-two-year-old youth. He managed to “do” little compared to what he promised to do...”