the summer solstice on June 21, at noon, in the oldest Moscow hotel "national" has gathered for auction of antiquarian books and autographs about two dozen collectors. Auction house "Empire" suggested by 439 lots, of which the new owners eventually found 262 (60%). Total revenue was reached at 9.19 million, or 99% of the average estimate@

was impressed by the high Trading activity Internet-игроков — online-участникам gone for 48 lots (or 18% of the total number of lots sold). In other auction houses, practicing the Internet-ставки, their share is still minimal. On "Empire" over the Internet was even purchased more lots than on the phone (to phone buyers out in the end 44 of the lot). And let online-участники acquired mostly inexpensive editions in the range of 10-20 thousand rubles, the growth trend of the Internet-продаж certainly positive — they become than-то usual, less can sometimes be hitches and glitches in the connection, there were cases when for some-то lot traded several Internet-участников. Face-to-face traditional auctions go up over time, and it pleases. As for the rest of the lots sold — most of them were bought by absentee rates (110 lots, or 42%), and the remaining 23% (60 lots) went to buyers in sale@

Top-лотом of the auction is to be expected was marching almost at the close of trading for an autograph Chekhov (lot 431). Handwritten letter of Anton Pavlovich Chairman of the Serpukhov district Zemstvo N. N. Khmelevo from 11 January 1904 was put up complete with two photos of the writer (one of them — autograph of his wife Olga Knipper-Чеховой). The auction started with 550 thousand rubles (estimate: 550-600 thousand) and reached 950 thousand rubles. The winning distance uchastnik@

And one item to autograph Chekhov's the hammer went cartoon Karl Briullov on of sculptor Ivan Vitali "avantages lottery". A lottery was arranged on 1 October 1841 artist Jacob Yanenko, with whom Bryullov and Vitali were very friendly. The next picture in this cartoon pokes fun at addiction Soared to snuff. The caption reads: "Fig. K. Brullov / and is allowed to sniff". Such caricatures Were stored on Briullov in the Russian Museum collection. This fun and historically significant document was purchased by absentee rate of 600 thousand rubles (estimate of 450-500 thousand rubles).

Third is 312 lot — the Russian avant-garde book "Hermits. Pustynia: two poems" Alexei Kruchenykh illustrations Natalia Goncharova and cover Mikhail Larionov. The book, published in an edition of 480 instance, caused controversy by correspondence and online participants. Reached half a million rubles at the start with 400 thousand rubles@

these are the three most expensive lots of the auction "Empire". But the true intensity of passions auction was observed in the sale of other lots. So, exceeded the estimate of 27 times lot # 258 — a collection of seven editions of literary-художественного and public-политического of the magazine "New world" for 1926-1934, in which were published works by A. Tolstoy, V. Mayakovsky, O. Mandel'shtam and others. despite the fact that the rooms were selective and not in the best condition, a fierce struggle for the absentee bidder and the Internet-игрока from 3 thousand to 110 thousand rubles was-то out of the ordinary. The winning distance igrok@

Impressive was the care of lot No. 106 @11.-томного of the publication "Russia: a complete geographic description of our Fatherland. Desktop and road book for Russian people" (With-Пб., 1899-1914). Despite modest estimate 35-40 thousand rubles, started with 170 thousand and came in the fight rates up to 260 thousand rubles. Happy owner of the meeting was party phone. Another multi-volume — "world war II" by P. A. Field (-Пб., 1911-1912) — went to part-time player for 190 thousand rubles (estimate 50-60 thousand rubles).

it is Impossible to ignore lavishly illustrated 12-томное the 1909-1912 edition, "Moscow in its past and present" prepared by eminent historians, archaeologists and art historians of the time. Essays on the history, culture, art and architecture of Moscow accompanied by a photo-тинто-гравюрами, full Graphic Institute of the Association "Education". Estimate of the lot was 75-80 thousand rubles. When you declare a lot room noticeably perked up, started whispering, the auction house employees took up the handset, but the first absentee bid once extinguished the ardor of the participants — it was 400 thousand rubles. It seems that the real dispute for this edition happened before bidding correspondence between multiple players. The first bet was the only one. Lot, thus, exceeded the estimate of about 5 RS@

Sell three adjacent lots are almost worth mentioning. First, for 110 thousand rubles went to a phone player lot # 186 — edition of "Asiatic Russia" in three volumes. The book significantly exceeded the estimate of 40-45 thousand rubles, despite the loss of some pages, tears, water stains, scrapes and other damage. But, as correctly stated by one of the spectators in the hall, "the main thing is not printing the RSL".

And through one lot exhibited two consecutive books on the Romanov theme — "Feat 300-летнего of service to the Russian tsars of the Romanov dynasty" (estimate 55-65 thousand rubles) and "Childhood, upbringing and the summer of youth of Russian emperors" (estimate 35-40 thousand). Both lots greatly exceeded the estimate and left, respectively, for 100 and 120 thousand rubles@

the auction watched Maria Onuchin, AI