About revelations Akhmatova, end of the world, art not to pay debts and the roulette wheel in Monte-Карло — on the auction "Russian enamel"
ARTinvestment.RU   25 августа 2016

August 27, the auction house "Russian enamel" will hold 23-й auction. Pre-exhibition opened in the new office of the "literary Fund" at the address: Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2. Auction will be held. Beginning at 17:00

In the catalogue of a future auction included 370 lots of rare books, autographs, photographs and postcards, totaling more than 35 million rubles.

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Among the rarities of the Museum are presented the certificate of the employee of Criminal investigation Department, issued in the name of Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev — future writer and co-author (under a pseudonym Evgeny Petrov) the legendary "Twelve chairs" and "Golden calf".

Evgeny Kataev served in CID for three years. An outstanding event in his career occurred during his service, — detention and arrest of a close friend of Alexander Kazachinskoe, who led one of the Odessa gangs. After a while Kozaczynski write the story "the Green van" based on these events. Prototypes of the main characters of the novel became Kataev himself Kozaczynski.

is Not inferior to the rarity of this document and the book, known for a matter of the number of book collectors, — "Victor Vavich" Boris Zhitkov, printed in 1941. Lydia Chukovskaya wrote: "the Fate "Victor Vavich" strange... In 1941, "Soviet writer" released the novel, but the whole 10-тысячный circulation has gone under the knife...". the author of the Preface to the 1999 edition was thought to have survived only two copies of the edition of 1941: "One instance was in the Library, another was stolen from the shop Lydia Korneeva [Chukovskaya]".

At the auction "KABINET" exhibited a unique document — handwritten autobiography of Anna Akhmatova. To cite only one interesting quote from there: "the Historic decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) on literature and art helped me to reconsider my literary position and opened me the way to the Patriotic lyrics...".

the auction will feature a rare full set of the "Acts collected by the Caucasian Archeographic Commission" in 12 volumes (1866-1904). Extremely interesting 63-й volume "Library for reading", which published a scathing review of "a hero of our time" by Mikhail Lermontov. The author writes: "This is just a failed experience, the young writer who couldn't write books, learn to write; weak, shaky sketch of a young artist...".

Wonderful content of the book, warning from the panic about the end of the world at the turn of XIX — XX centuries, — "No the world will not end nor 1-го, 13-го Nov 1899" or essays by V. Krymov "About roulette Monte-Карло, South America, gastronomy, fashion and other" (1913).

the Highlight of the auction is — is, perhaps, the most curious edition of Pushkin's era "Art is not to pay debts or Supplement to art to take a song a decent man" (1826). Among the many proven tips on how to avoid paying debt, for example: "the purpose of the activity — to bore the creditor, to bring him to such a state of fatigue and helplessness that cometh out of breath and desperate, he won the last of their credit and pursuit. (...) Now, imagine that you are the mistress of its creditors. Drain their courage, their persistent obesnite hope".

With all the lots can be found on producciones the exhibition. It is open in the new office of the Auction house "Antiquarium" (Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2) to 26 August (every day except Sunday and Monday, from 11 to 20 hours).

the Auction will be held on August 27 ibid — in the new office of the Auction house "Russian enamel" at the address: Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2. The beginning of the auctions at 17:00. Gathering of the guests 16:00.

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Source: press-релиз the Auction house "Russian enamel"