About the book: year / Dovid Knut (1900–1955) - poet, prose writer of the “first wave” of emigration. Emigrated in 1920. The first literary experiments in emigration were approved by Vladislav Khodasevich and in 1925 in Paris, the first collection of poetry by Dovid Knut “My Millennia” was published. It was followed by collections of poems “The Second Book of Poems” (1928), “Satyr” (1929), “Parisian Nights” (1932), “Essential Love” (1938), all published in Paris. V. Khodasevich, G. Adamovich, Y. Terapiano and others spoke favorably of his work. In the 1930s, Knut was one of the most famous and recognized poets of Russian Paris, a participant in the main emigrant periodicals (“Modern Notes”, “Numbers”, "Circle", "Russian Notes"). D. Knuth’s poems were included in the anthologies “Anchor”, “In the West”, “Muse of the Diaspora”. This electronic edition includes in its entirety “The Second Book of Poems” (1928) (Digitizer Andrei Nikitin-Perensky, “Second Literature” library), and also selected poems from the collections “Parisian Nights” (1932), “Essential Love” (1938), found by the compiler on the Internet. As an introduction, an article by Y. Terapiano about Dovid Knut is published. The appendix provides a review by Georgy Adamovich of the collection “Parisian Nights”».