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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