One of the top lots of the London auction Christie's «Rare books and manuscripts" November 20 will be the autograph of the poem by Fyodor Tyutchev "Smoke" with an estimate of 60-90 thousand pounds

Autograph poem by Fyodor Tyutchev "Smoke »
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here at one time , the mighty and beautiful ,
Shumel and turned green magic forest , -
not a forest, and a world of diverse ,
Filled with visions and miracles ...

F. Tyutchev . Smoke

favorite auction Christie's « Rare books and manuscripts ," which will be held in London on November 20 , will be dated April 25, 1867 autograph poem by Fyodor Tyutchev ( 1803-1873 ) "Smoke" . The autograph was in the collection of Peter G. Bogatyreva (1893-1970) , and then passed by right of succession, until in 1979, was acquired by Gennady Barabtarlo . Offer presented in the form of 32 poetic lines on a sheet of paper folded twice , estimated by experts in the amount of 60-90 thousand pounds .

poem "Smoke" Tyutchev wrote in response to Turgenev's novel of the same name .

According to one of the previous owners autograph literary GA Barabtarlo , this document allows you to restore the original punctuation of the poem and to establish the exact date of his writing . Between this text and published in 1868, this has several important differences . In particular, the line " And here again our forests become green , /The same forest , a magical and dear " sound in the manuscript as follows : " And here again is turning green and /Our former forest , a magical and dear ." In addition , the text contains a number of punctuation differences. The fact that the editors of collections of poems Tyutchev often " modernized " punctuation author, thus breaking the original rhythmic pattern works .

Autographs poems Tyutcheva extremely rare, as the poet himself extremely careless manuscripts are not trying to save or organize them . As for the early drafts and manuscripts , they were burned by the poet himself . Thus, this is a rare autograph document .

of other lots with Russian provenance auction house draws the public's attention on the autograph of the article " My opinion " Alexander Semenovich Shishkov ( 1754-1841 ), devoted to the need to base " company under the name of charity and education sorevnovateley " from September 13, 1817 ( 4 pages) . Russian literary life of the early XIX primarily characterized the debate over language. Alexander S. Shishkov , persistently denied the concept of the historical evolution of the language, was the author of a number of works devoted to this subject , and was the founder of the society "Conversation lovers Russian words." The main ideological opponents Shishkov were members of the literary circle " Arzamas" Zhukovsky , father, Pushkin, Vyazemskij and others. Shishkov wrote this article in 1817, after the collapse of the " Conversations ... ". In it, he describes the mechanisms by which the new society will resist the modernization of the Russian language .

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