More than a thousand pages of manuscripts and autographs of the Soviet literary elite 1960 will be presented at the auction of the journal "About Books" May 28, 2011

May 28, 2011 at 15 o'clock in the Nicholas Hall of the Hotel Nacional (str Moss, 15 /1) journal about the book "holds regular thematic auction" My XX century. Books, autographs, manuscripts, letters and photographs from the private collection of Felix Medvedev ».

auction catalog was more than 100 lots from the collection of a prominent journalist and writer Felix Medvedev - mostly manuscripts and autographs of the Russian and foreign literary elite 1960: Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Bulat Okudzhava, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Nicky turbine, Vasily Aksenov, Alexander Kushner, Bella Akhmadulina, Francoise Sagan, Arthur Miller and many others. Thus, the auction presents rare materials related to the work of Yevgeny Yevtushenko poetry anthology "Russian muse XX Century" - about 800 autographs on the working materials anthology. It is noteworthy also an unpublished manuscript of article by Andrei Voznesensky, dedicated to the great Russian artist Marc Chagall .

in the collection of Felix Medvedev wonderful debut book presents a collection of famous Russian poets, most - autographed by the authors. This is the first edition of R. Rozhdestvensky, M. Aliger, E. Vinokurov, D. Samoilov, E. Reyna, rare, and almost no books here that can be Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, and others

single large section includes photographs of the masters of Russian poetry, most of these pictures are not widely known among fans and put into public circulation for the first time. On photo - Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, B. Okudzhava, R. Christmas, A. Miller, V. Aksenov, I. Odoyevtseva, V. Soloukhin, A. Dementiev, L. Kassil, M. Mathieu, and many others.

Among other things, the auction also represented by "funny" lots had until now not offered in public sale on Russian auctions. For example, collectors can compete for the votes of famous people - many hours of audio recordings of working time of the interview with T. Doronin, Vishnevsky, Limonov, E. Unknown , Vladimir Zhirinovsky, etc.

One of the last lots offered an unpublished manuscript of the book itself, Felix Medvedev with the rights to its publication - a detective novel about a mystery death of Princess Diana .

This is the second auction in a series of the May trade magazine about a book. " first - "Antiquarian books, manuscripts, historical papers and autographs - on 21 May . It will highlight approximately 200 autographs of famous Russian writers and poets from several private collections, including the collection of the famous Soviet bookseller and collector Emanuel Povich Tsipelzona, writer Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, literary Lazar Lazarev Illich and others.

A detailed auction catalog, "My XX century. Books, autographs, manuscripts, letters and photographs from the private collection of Felix Medvedev on the Internet: http://www.aboutbooks.ru/auction/9 .

Contact: Sergei Burmistrov, chief editor of "On Paper, tel .: 969-77-45.

Journal bibliophile "About Books" - a periodical, published with support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, is designed for book collectors, experts in the field of book science and bibliography, the antiquarian book business experts, employees of public and private libraries, as well as all fans and admirers of the books. The journal is published quarterly (since 2007). The proceedings relate to a wide range of bibliophile interests, including coverage of issues of the history of books, private book collections, and book publishing, bibliographies, stories bookplate and binding. The journal also publishes various articles and interviews on topical issues of development of the market of antique and modern collectible books, pricing, the formation of book collections and more.

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