In Russia, the impact of end World War I was subsumed under far greater October Revolution, which led to a bifurcation Russian culture into Soviet and émigré branches. This article examines hybrid literary musical work from interwar period: Viacheslav Ivanov’s nine Roman Sonnets ( Rimskie sonety, 1924) settings that composer Aleksandr Grechaninov made five these as his Sonetti Romani in 1939. H...