4 February 2016 in the "President-Отеле" that on Bolshaya Yakimanka street, was held the auction the auction house "literary Fund" under the name "Rare books, autographs, manuscripts, photographs and drawings." Broke through the security post booksellers waited for the pre-auction cocktail reception and live music performed by jazz-бэнда. The beginning of trading in the hall "Library" had no less than forty people. Summary of — 259 lots sold out of 431 (60 %), and total sales reached 31.7 million rubles — 120 % of the average total estimate. A major contribution to this solid result was delivered several multi-million top-лотов, sold with a large excess of the preliminary assessment.

Top-лотом trading is to be expected has become a rare compilation of all 18 lifetime editions of Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (lot 246). Many of these books were forbidden in the Soviet Union were withdrawn from circulation. Separate editions of the collection almost never occur in the Antiques market. The decoration of the collection are rare editions of "Evening album", "the End of Casanova," "Poetry Unit", "Psyche". As a result of battle hall and phone lots went to telephone to the player for 8 million rubles, which is almost twice the starting 4.5 million. The sale of this lot, in fact, provided a fourth of all proceeds of the auction.

Next, almost three times exceeded the preliminary estimate lot 5 — "Descriptions of travel in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia" by Adam Olearius ([FR. yaz.]. In 2 hours part 1-2. Amsterdam: Chez Michel Charles le Ce'ne, 1727). This book by a German traveler and historian Adam Olearius is a masterpiece of printing of the eighteenth century and one of the most interesting historical sources about Russia at that time. Book adorned with numerous illustrations and maps. The traveler did most of the drawings from life, and after they were engraved by the artist Augustus Ion. By joint efforts of the players in the room and the phone raised the price of books from 1.2 to 3.4 million (estimate lot size of 1.2–1.3 million). The winner was a telephone bidder.

Another seven-stepped the bar lot — "Arithmetic" Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky (lot 4), the first printed Russian books in mathematics (Moscow: Printing house, Jan. 1703). Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky (1669-1739), born ostashkova Telesyn, received a new name after a well-aimed sayings of Peter, compare Telesina with a magnet that "attracts the iron, so it is natural and samobrazovaniya their abilities" has succeeded a lot in the knowledge of the mathematical intricacies. In 1701, Peter I gave the Magnitsky assignment to prepare a textbook for the newly opened Mathematical-навигацкой school. An instance of this textbook was bought at the auction of the "literary Fund" the party room for 1.1 million rubles (within the assessment 1-1,2 million).

And finally, the last "million" at auction "literary Fund" February 4 — is lot 149: a selection of 250 photos of the Patriarch of the architectural subject and the shooting of Ivan Feodorovich Barshchevsky (1851-1948). The only Russian photographer, are allowed into the inner sanctum — Imperial vault to the historic values of the House of Romanov and Moscow Armory chamber, Ivan Barshchevsky has left most valuable for lovers of Russian history, pictures of treasures of the Moscow Kremlin. In addition he traveled extensively in Central Russia in the late XIX — the early twentieth century, photographed the architecture of temples of Yaroslavl, Moscow, Vladimir, Rostov, Kirillova, St. George-Польского, the interior of the churches, utensils and other historical artifacts, many of which are irretrievably lost in the first years of Soviet power. A selection of 250 images Barshchevsky (each — on the Mat) was purchased by the party in the hall for 1 million rubles (estimated 500-550 thousand lot).

Of the lots, the bidding for which had been particularly active, is to say about the album "Versailles" Alexander Benois (lot 276). For personalised edition (circulation 100 copies) belonging to the Museum worker V. I. Erykalova, persistently traded Internet and phone, eventually raise the price of the hammer from 50 to 700 thousand rubles. Lot, 14 times exceeded the estimate, despite the activity of the Internet, got a phone player. And the second book of the first Russian poetess Anna Petrovna Bunino (1774-1829) "On happiness. The didactic poem" (lot 31) in the dispute of the Internet and telephone has increased in price in 4 times — with 100 to 420 thousand rubles (again won the phone). Lot 31 — "acts of famous generals and Ministers who served in the reign of Sovereign Emperor Peter the Great. With portraits of them," Dmitry Nikolaevich Bantysh-Каменского traded and the phone room up to 700 thousand rubles (estimate lot size 200-220 thousand).

And for collectors of alphabets undoubted interest lot 3 (handwritten "ABC-пропись" the end of the XVII — beginning of the XVIII century in the struggle between the two phones and the Internet has increased in price from 15 to 300 thousand rubles) and lot 16 (the only fully preserved the Alphabet of typography klintsovskiy 1787 with 70 thousand rubles reached 220 thousand).

a Rare edition Vaskov I. "a history of news related to Kostroma" (M.: In Type. M. Ponomareva, 1792, lot 27) three times exceeded the preliminary estimate 100-110 thousand rubles and was bought by a telephone buyer for $ 300 million.

the Book "Memory of a good mother, or her last advice to his daughter. The composition g-жи Tanishi" (SPb.: In The Save As Type. Imp. Orphanage, 1827), depicting the daily life of the nobility of the Pushkin's time, was bought for 330 thousand rubles in the assessment from 50 thousand rubles (lot 42).

the Next auction of the "literary Fund" dedicated solely to the posters, will be held on February 25 in the Library of cinematic art named after. S. M. Eisenstein.

Maria Onuchin, AI