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Thirty-Three Monsters by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, is a novella in the form of a diary, first published in St. Petersburg in 1907. In the "Silver Age" of Russian literature, Lydia Zinovieva Annibal ran a literary salon there, "The Tower" together with her husband, the symbolist Viacheslav Ivanov. As the first lesbian novella, under the name 33 Abominations and the Devil was quickly banned in Russia and is now published for the first time as a bilingual edition in English and Russian. The French-Lithuanian artist Eléonore de Montesquiou illustrated the book and Jenni Zinovieff has produced a new translation into English.