on the last Saturday of winter, on 27 February in the hall "Moscow" hotel "national" auction house "KABINET" held its 45-й auction — "Autographs and the first editions of the Silver age from the private collection of I. B. Zhvanetsky".

Collection of Russian scientist-химика, paintings of Ilya Borisovich Zhvanetsky (1939-2002) — surprisingly rich collection of books and autographs of Silver age poets, first editions of Soviet poets 1930-70-х and poets-шестидесятников, contemporaries of the collector.

an Important part of the collection I. B. Zhvanetsky — archives and fragments of collections of poets, translators, graduates of the historical-филологического faculty of the Moscow University: E. Arkhipova, D. Usov, L. Gornung, A. am I saying.

And of course, the present historical-культурное value collection I. B. Zhvanetsky gives a collection of autographs, with, incidentally, a very valuable feature: often the recipients of copyright government labels become other poets and writers — colleagues on the shop, friends, beloved and family members of the authors books.

Not surprisingly, the appearance at auction of the collection of such level has become a real landmark event for Moscow second-hand bookshops. By 12 o'clock at the auction room of "Empire", as they say, the Apple was nowhere to fall: the start of drawing the first lot were looking forward to more than fifty members, of whom thirty people sat in the hall personally, and the other two dozen watched the opening ceremony and participated in the auction in real time via the Internet.

For more than three hours of an auction the hammer went from 265 360 (73,6 %) of the lots, totaling more than 22.5 million rubles, which is 253 % (!) of the average total estimate of all lots of the catalogue.

the First violin, of course, played edition with the author's dedicatory and commemorative inscriptions: these include 9 of the 10 most expensive lots of the auction, which brought nearly half (47 %, or 10,65 million) of the total proceeds of the auction.

the Only book without an autograph into a virtual top-10 at auction February 27, was one of five hundred copies of the book "the Magic lantern: a Second book of poems," M. I. Tsvetaeva 1912 (lot 159). The auction started with 60 000 absentee rate, and ended at a rate of 650 000, which was made by the party on the phone. A rare book in the course of trading rose in price by almost 11 times.

Such a successful auction when the final price exceeded the starting amount of ten times and above, that Saturday happened more than once. In particular, the book "Mile" by Marina Tsvetaeva 1921 (lot 158) from the start 30 000 rubles, against Internet and telephone, and all went to last for 480 000 — is 16 times the start! And here is a rare first collection of poems by A. P. Platonov's "Blue depth", published by the publishing house Krasnodar "Thunderbird" in 1922 (lot 189), got a new owner in the hall for 220 000 rubles, despite its modest estimate and starting price for an absentee rate of 30 000 roubles.

Constant high activity of the hall effect on the results of the auction: in the hall took 134 of 265 lots sold. Internet, fought a total of 134 for the lot, won 75 times. Absentee bidder were much less fortunate: the absentee rate appeared to be winning only 28 out of 122 attempts, the phone, by the way, won exactly the same number of — 28 times.

• [Gumilev N., autograph] Romantic flowers: poems 1903-1907 G. — 3-е ed. SPb.: Prometheus, 1918. 74,
  с.; 21,5 × 16
  Empire. 27.02.2016. Lot 85
  Estimate: 300 000-350 000.
  Price: 2 200 000 rubles.
  auction-imperia.ru

the highest price of the day was 2 200 000 roubles (the auction starting from 320 000 rubles) for the book "Romantic poems" H. Gumilev's 1918 edition (lot 85) has paid the party room, which has overcome the resistance of the correspondence player, two phones and face-to-face opponent. In itself is quite a rare edition, the book contains the author's autograph addressed to his second wife, Anna Nikolaevna Engelhardt (1895-1942): "Ana. / I like a boy, seized by love / For the girl wrapped in the silks. / August 4, 1918 N. Gumilev". About this autograph mentions in his book, the biographer Gumilyov Vladimir Polushin: "on August 4, the poet meets with the bride and gives her a third edition of his book "Romantic flowers" with inscription: "Ana. I like a boy, seized by love for a girl, shrouded in silks”. Now their relationship is becoming more and more like a family relationship. A day later, received a formal divorce from his wife, Nikolai Stepanovich makes a proposal to Anna Nikolaevna..." (Polushin, V. Nikolai Gumilev: life shot of the poet. M.: Young guard, 2006). Original collection of poems was dedicated to another Anna — first wife of the poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (Akhmatova).

On the second step of our virtual price of pedestal, is the book "the End of Casanova: a Dramatic sketch" by M. I. Tsvetaeva, 1922 (lot 168) with a dedicatory inscription poetess friend daughter Catherine Zhdanko: "Cute Katia Zhdanko / in memory of / YAC / Moscow, Easter 1922". Starting from 400 000 rubles absentee rate, two telephones, online-участник and Challenger in the hall raised the price to 1 700 000, for which lot and went into the hall.

the Third result of the day was 1 300 000 paid by the new owner for lot 87 — book". Thing" (1918) V. Mayakovsky with inscripton the author, addressed to the poet Nikolai Nikolaevich Zakharov (pseudo. Zakharov-Менский; 1895-1942): "Zakharov / Maine / Mayakovsky / will save / you are Lord / of all sorts / flowers". From the start at 380,000 rubles absentee rate, the book, in the dispute of the hall, Internet and two telephone parties, quickly reached a "bronze" prices. Won hall.

• Homemade open letter. View Of Koktebel. Watercolor. Drew Maximilian Voloshin. 9,7 x 15,5.
  On the back of a handwritten letter by M. Voloshin, addressed to E. Y. Arhipov, from 27.01.31
  Empire. 27.02.2016. Lot 355
  Estimate: 80 000-90 000.
  Price: 360 000 rubles.
  Source: auction-imperia.ru

One of the most exciting experiences of the day was the drawing of the last seven lots catalog — Thong from two lots of photos, and five sheets of original graphics Maksimilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin (lots 354-360). These lots were waiting with a special, intense interest. So when they announced the starting price for lot 355 — improvised open letter to Voloshin Y. Arkhipov 1931 watercolor with a view of Koktebel, — room like exploded. A dozen people simultaneously began to ring its customers, as the bidding started immediately with 120 000 part-time rate, although the estimate was declared at the level of 80 000-90 000. However, two participants in the hall and many of the candidates on the phones high start do not confuse — they traded for a long time, made a few dozen steps, raised the price three times, up to 360 000 rubles, after which the phones and one of the participants in the hall had surrendered, and the second triumphed. Other watercolors Voloshin was dismantled on average 4-5 times higher than the estimate. Surprisingly, more expensive than 350 000 rubles for types watercolor Voloshin, last time on open auctions were paying in September 2014. So long time we have not seen such high prices!

Congratulations to "the Empire" with an impressive result and we will wait for new records: the next auction of books from the collection of I. B. Zhvanetsky is scheduled for April 16.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI