A pair of antique Russian books. First. Sketches About Western Writers by Yuli Aykhenvald. Published by Nauchnoe Slovo, Word of Science, Moscow, 1910. Softcover. Second. Complete Works of Maurice Maeterlinck, volume I. Niva magazine supplement. Published by A.F. Marks, Saint Petersburg, 1915. Hardcover. Yuly Aykhenvald, or Eichenwald, 1872 to 1928, was a Russian Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism. Maurice Maeterlinck, 1862 to 1949, was a Belgian playwright of the Symbolist movement, Nobel Prize laureate of 1911. Niva, The Grainfield, was the most popular Russian illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life, active from 1870 to 1918. Antiquarian Librarian Books Publications For Collectors, Russian Literature.