Voeslav Mole and Yuri Verkhovsky. Double portrait on the background of the Civil War

The article focuses on the friendly and creative relations between the Slovenian art historian, poet and essayist Vojeslav Mole (1886– 1973) and the Russian prominent poet, interpreter, literary historian and theorist Yuriy Verhovskiy (1878–1956). Being recruited to army in 1914 Mole got captured almost at once and spent practically six years in Siberia. In 1919 in Tomsk he met Verhovskiy, who translated several of his poems and published them in his book «Sun in captivity» (1922). One of the Mole’s poems in «Tristia ex Siberia» (1922) is devoted «To the friend ― poet Yuriy Nik. Verhovskiy».