Calea spre emigrare a lui Piotr Potiomkin. Anul petrecut la Chișinău (1920–1921)
Emigrant route of the Russian poet Pyotr P. Potyomkin. Bessarabian period (1920–1921)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes a less studied period at the beginning of emigration of the modernist poet of RussianSilver Age – Piotr Potyomkin. Some materials, found by the author in the National Archives of the Republic ofMoldova, made possible to fill in the blanks in the poet’s biography and to restore the real facts of his escape fromSaint Petersburg to Bessarabia. The poems and essays, written in Kishinev, represent a turning point in his creativeactivity, thus changing the previously formed image of poet „of a light genre”.

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