One of the top lots of the "Russian" literary Bonhams auction on December 5 will be the guest album Henrietta Leopoldovna Hirschmann, which absorbed more than a hundred inscriptions, drawings, music, and literary quotations and autographs of fam

Home album signings Henriette Hirschmann will be sold at the "Russian" literary auction Bonhams auction house on December 5 in New York. Guest album Henrietta Leopoldovna Hirschmann brightest full of sketches from the life of the Russian high society of the early twentieth century. Set of two books together chubby over a hundred inscriptions, drawings, music, and literary quotations and autographs of famous guests, gathered in its Moscow mansion at the Beautiful Gate. Salon Girshmanov was home to many artistic and cultural figures of Russia, and the album is a reflection of the artistic atmosphere of the interior of the period. These extraordinary book, just have absorbed the cultural history of Russia, will be sold at the "Russian" literary auction Bonhams auction house in New York, December 5 (estimate 200-300 thousand dollars).

Henrietta Hirschmann and her husband, an industrial magnate, collector and philanthropist Vladimir Hirschmann loved art, and even became one of the founders of the "Free Aesthetics", plays an important role in the cultural life of pre-revolutionary Moscow (1907-1917 ). The house Girshmanov always arranged the evening meetings, concerts, poetry readings, theater performances, who attended Bryusov, Andrei Bely, Mikhail Kuzmin, Valentin Serov , Konstantin Korovin Konstantin , Sergei Diaghilev, Vassily Katchalov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin Fyodor Chaliapin, Maxim Gorky, Konstantin Balmont, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Horowitz, Bela Bartok and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky .

Autographs Bryusov and Prokofiev Album of Henrietta Hirschmann. Source: bonhams.com