Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: Russian Characters and References

«The Russian theme» was not the key one is the art of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, yet he did create a Russian character whose mentality reflected that of the author in one of his major novels, The Four Horses of the Apocalypse (1916) and featured the Russian emigres as the principal characters of two novellas, An Old Man from the English Boulevard (1924) and The Devouress (1926); Russian emigres play a major part in his posthumously published novel An Angel with the Golden Wings (1930). The Spanish writer who had spent his final years near Nice, could witness the daily routine of the Russian emigres, talk with them, and that’s why he only goes astray while describing the Revolutionary Russia he had never visited.

Vi cente Blasco Ibáñez, «Russian theme», Russian emigration to France