I just came across this narrative long poem on St. Petersburg by Vladimir Pyast (1886-1940), one of Blok's closest friends: http://az.lib.ru/p/pjast_w_a/text_0020.shtml. Do I understand correctly that the "Poem on Cities (Part One)", written apparently in 1932 (a year before the author was banished to Odessa) and containing many Petersburgian topographic details that could be of interest to VN, was first published in 1940 and so could have been read by VN? Also, who is Vanda mentioned in stanza 70 (the penultimate one)? Many thanks in advance for the help of learned erudites.

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