Two sessions of summer auction will be held on July 18 at 19:00 and 19 July at 15:00 in the "House of antique books in Nikitsky." Will be represented by a total of approximately 700 lots of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. Pre-show star

Two sessions of summer auction will be held on July 18 at 19:00 and 19 July at 15:00 in the "House of antique books in Nikitsky." Will be represented by a total of approximately 700 lots of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. Pre-auction exhibition opens today.

One of the most exciting auction items will be a manuscript of Boris Pasternak on page 126, which represents stationery version of the 5th and 6th chapters of the famous novel "Doctor Zhivago" for the writer who won the Nobel Prize. In addition to the manuscripts included in the lot book of poems, which entered into a novel, with marks and a note by Boris Pasternak. Book was compiled and personally intertwined by the writer, who gave her a well-known poet M. Zenkevich. On the same lot and included a note with the poems of Pasternak's novel, addressed to the poet S. Spassky. This manuscript collection is unique and represents the absolute historical and cultural significance for Russia, and for the western collector and connoisseur of Russian literature. Lot is estimated 2.8-3.0 million rubles.

on auction will also be exhibited letters and autographs of Saltykov-Shchedrin, Yesenin, Balmont, V.Bryusov , Tchaikovsky, Chaliapin, I. Repin , Yu Annenkov , Lifar , Mikhalkov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Lenin, manuscripts and early printed books XVI - XVII centuries, sumptuous illustrated editions of the XIX century, first editions of Pushkin, VL Pushkin Q. . Zhukovsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Nekrasov, including the first one, destroyed by the classic book, "Dreams and sounds».

Anecdotally autographs for collectors item will be composed of the examination card on descriptive geometry and the three answer sheets of the first Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. On sheets with answers - grade "excellent". Having been the first in space, Yuri Gagarin, returning to the ground, and here was trying to do everything perfectly. Estimate lot - 80-90 thousand rubles.

separate sections will be presented to the meeting calendar, and the rarity of chess books on hippology.

Among the rare books Russian avant-garde - "Gazeta futurists" and "Art Commune", which were issued with the participation B. Mayakovsky , D. Burliuk , Kamensky , K. Malevich , Chagall and other well-known writers and artists; posters "ROSTA" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, and much more.

In the course of trading on July 18 will be played two charity lot (lifetime Publication Gogol and Saltykov-Shchedrin), the proceeds from the sale of which will go to the construction of the Chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Perlovski cemetery on the north-east of Moscow.

pre-auction exhibition opens today, July 10, and will run until July 17 from 10 am to 20 pm (daily except Monday ) at the address: Moscow, Nikita lane., 4a, page 1. ("House of antique books in Nikitsky"). Auctions will be held at the same place on July 18 at 19:00 and 19 July at 15:00.

Source : press release "House of antique books in Nikitsky »