Rare books, tamizdat, photos and autographs on the sixth and seventh online-аукционах "Empire"
ARTinvestment.RU   26 апреля 2017

Soon the auction house "KABINET" will hold two online-аукциона. The closing will take place on Friday 28 April at 18:00 on Thursday 4 may at 18:00

Online-аукцион № 6

In the initial section, "Autographs" are publications with inscriptions by Soviet writers — Leonid Leonov, Anatoly Chivilikhin, Sergei Mikhalkov, Leo oshanina, Korney Chukovsky, Yuri Nagibin, etc. a Remarkable convolute of five journal articles of the late XIX century, with autographs of authors, including @knowed the mdas and the founder of bibliopsychology Nikolai Rubakin, philosopher and social activist, Peter Struve. Presents a collection of his early works "On various topics", allowing to trace the evolution of the philosopher of materialism and Marxism to idealism and liberal conservatism.

a Significant part of the publications section of "Art" devoted to the theater. Absolute top-лотом is "an Illustrated history of the Russian theater of the XIX century" Ivan Buranova. The author on the basis of a rich factual material traced the development of Russian theatre from the first years of XIX century to the time of the reign of Nicholas I. One of the leading actors of the era — Mikhail Shchepkin — is devoted to the monograph of Nikolai Efros. Collectors of periodicals is inevitable in the selection of the "journal of art and scenes of" "the Studio" for 1911 and 1912. The publication has positioned itself as an independent body of artistic thought and criticism in the field of theatre, music, painting, sculpture and architecture, and its numerous authors — among them was Fyodor Stepun, James Tugendhold, Yuri Eichenwald, Alexander Tairov, Georgi Plekhanov — defended various artistic paradigm. Among other publications, of theatrical subjects is to provide the acclaimed "Revolution theater" Georg Fuchs, a collection of critical statejob one of the leading actors of the Moscow art Theater Vasily Kachalov and work of Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, "Theatrical preludes". Magazine dedicated to the painting of interest short-run catalogue of the exhibition watercolors by Maximilian Voloshin was held in 1927, and several items related to the artist Mikhail Grobman.

the "History" Section includes publications on different countries and eras. Fans of military themes will not be spared the work of Nikolai Orlov, containing a thorough analysis of the Italian campaign of 1799 the legendary General Alexander Suvorov and the diary of a diplomat and officer Alexander Bulatovich "With the armies of Menelik II", which describes the African expedition. Famous historical series "Russian story" presented by the "Battle of the Nations" Rudolph Friderich, which tells of the battle of Leipzig in 1813, and the "Novel of one of the Empress" Kazimierz Waliszewski, in which "the notes, letters and unpublished documents of the state archives," the author described a mixed personality of Catherine II. Peru belongs to the Polish historian writing about the first "Tsar of all the Russias" — "Peter the Great". The story of two of the "construction of socialism" — white sea-Балтийского canal and the Dnieper — is told (of course, with the "front" side) in the books "the Canal named after Stalin" (collective work, with the participation of Maxim Gorky, Valentin Kataev, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Alexei Tolstoy, etc.) and "a Great historic building," P Antarova.

In the section "Geography. Science" it is worth noting a compilation of two guides on the Volga, 1937, collection "St. Petersburg and its life" and releasedpublishing house of the NKVD, the book of essays lawyer Boris Utevsky "Crimes and criminals in Western Europe".

Among the lots in the section "Photos. Cards. Ephemera" is a remarkable flyer all-Russian peasant Union (such artifacts have survived in small quantity), a few leaves of the decrees of the XIX century, photo album "Niasvizh", which gives a vivid picture of pre-revolutionary provincial daily, and the album with two series of postcards on the topics — TRANS-Siberian railway. Section contains pictures of figures of Russian culture and science — Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Ostrovsky, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Nobel laureate Ilya Mechnikov.

In the final section directory "fiction. Poetry" two interesting academic publication of Evgeny Baratynsky and Alexei Koltsov, published in Leipzig "Poems" by Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Turgenev's poem "the Landlord" (impression of the "St. Petersburg collection"), illustrated by Alexander Aginam, the author of the canonical illustrations for Gogol's "Dead souls". You can also highlight a collection of "aesthetic and critical experiments," "Furrows and boundaries" poet-символиста Vyacheslav Ivanov, the first book of Andrei Voznesensky's "Mosaic" and a rare instance of self-published poems of Sophia Parnok. Top-лотами section are "Notebook", "the Chairman of the globe" by Velimir Khlebnikov and rare émigré publication — "Secret mission" Sergei Monclova.

Online-аукцион № 7

a Significant part of the collection is made up of the book publishing house "Academia", the topics are quite diverse — memoir essays (Benvenuto Cellini, Carlo Goldoni, Andrey Delvig) Russian and foreign classics (Mikhail Lermontov, Victor Hugo, Juvenal, honoré de Balzac), folklore (the Finnish national epic "Kalevala", old French folk epic "Aucassin and Nicolet"), and catalogue of books of the publishing house, the publication of which was timed to coincide with the Paris world fair in 1937. Lovers of illustrated books of the nineteenth century draw attention to a collection of poems Peter Field "Native echoes". This book, devoted to the Ukraine, decorated with drawings of famous artist and writer Nikolay Karazin. The reflection of war in art (mostly painting) is dedicated to the study of the art critic Yakov Tugendhold. The monograph "the Problem of war in the art world" was published in the midst of the First world war, events which are largely the catalyst of the author's intention. For collectors periodicals note room art magazine "Love for three oranges", to which the inspiration was a theatrical actor and Director Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Presents autographs of Soviet writers and poets — Konstantin Paustovsky, Nikolai Bobrov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Matusovsky, Victor Hoffman, and others Among the "tamizdat" it is necessary to highlight the book by Julia Daniel, Nikolai Alekseev, Nadezhda Mandelstam and Constantine Kuzminsky. Two more interesting artifact present in the directory — tearcalendar for 1952, released emigre publishing house "Seeding", and a congratulatory letter to the first Secretary of the Leningrad regional Committee of the CPSU Grigory Romanov.

Electronic directories:

part 1 — http://anticvarium.ru/auction/show/43,

part 2 — http://anticvarium.ru/auction/show/44.

pre-Auction exhibition is held from 24 to 27 April and from April 25 to may 3 from 12:00 to 20:00 at the address: Moscow, Sadovaya-Кудринская, 25 (except Sundays and public holidays).

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