Autographs Bunin and Pasternak, Bulgakov's photo with his dedication, notebooks and diaries Erofeeva, inscripti the largest Russian poets and prose writers of the second half of the XX century, paintings and drawings of iconic representatives of unofficial art

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the First part of the auction with a truly unique archive of the "Russian samovar" — will start at 13:00. More than 700 items included in the directory — is ready exposition — monument to "Russian culture in exile." "Russian Samovar", located in the heart of new-Йорка, Manhattan — is not just a gastronomic restaurant-style a la russe. Three iconic personalities — Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Roman Kaplan — were its co-owners, defining the special value of the restaurant in the life of the Russian emigration. Here gathered all who consider themselves part of Russian culture, and sports stars, and politicians. Among the visitors — Dovlatov, Ivan aleshkovski, Aksyonov, Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava, Vishnevskaya, Rostropovich, Bashmet, Butman, Mikhalkov, Tsereteli, Ilya Kabakov, Komar, Melamid, Bruskin, Tulips (the list is endless). Frequented and American stars: Streisand, Forman, Minnelli, Sylvester Stallone. Almost all have left a review at album: poems, drawings, who-то pasted picture with a comic caption. Poets and writers were given autograph books, artists — work. So was the collection of "Russian samovar".

the Collection will be auctioned in one lot. Applications for participation in auction are accepted up to 14 February inclusive.

a Detailed description and catalogue of the collection.

Auction of the second part of — "Autographs, letters, manuscripts from private archives. The St. Petersburg collection. Bronze age" — will start at 14:00.

Online-каталог auction "Autographs, letters, manuscripts from private archives. The St. Petersburg collection. Bronze age".

Opens directory "St. Petersburg collection" of tabloids collections of the Silver age — "I live" by Ilya Ehrenburg (1911), "Aeolian harp" Alexander Tufanov (1917), "the Diamond of the forest" leader of the futurist group "Centrifuge," Sergey Bobrov (1917), "the sixth Day" Konstantin Lipskerov (1922), steklovarenie publications — "Ironed" Aleksei Kruchenykh (1930) and published under his editorship "Unpublished Khlebnikov" (vol. 24. 1930). Nikolai Klyuev presented his "favorite poem" "the Third Rome" (1922) by inskript poet in Averyanova. Curious letter of Osip Dymov to her brother, the famous physicist Yakov Perelman, in which the writer reports on the work on the novel "Leutenant de garde".

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a Number of lots associated with Anna Akhmatova and her inner circle — dedicated to the "wailing Muse" poem of the last oberiutov Igor Bakhterev, letters and inscripti Faina Ranevskaya and Lidia Chukovskaya, autographs of poems of Lev Gumilev and semi-official edition of his major work "Ethnogenesis and biosphere of the Earth" with a donative inscription of the author.

One of the unique lots — the first samizdat collection of Brodsky's (1962, Boris Taigin and Constantine Kuzminsky) copies and 2 copies (!). In the collection of the auction included two rooms of the "Evening Leningrad" infamous article "literature-related drone" and article "the Trial of Brodsky" (1963-1964). Autograph of the poet on the compilation "Part of speech", addressed to Victoria and Michael Belomlinsky, opens the section with items from the archive of one of the most hospitable literary-художественных families of Leningrad. Letters and autographs of friends — Alexander Galich, Yevgeny Rhine, SergeyDovlatov, Nagibin, Yuri, Yunna Moritz, Vasily Aksyonov, Lev Losev, etc. Next to them — illustration Michael Belomorskogo to the first Soviet edition of "the Hobbit" J.R. R. Tolkien, as well as a caricature of Vladimir Vysotsky with a dedicatory inscription of the bard.

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From the collection of poet Alexey Purin occur rare samizdat copies autographed by Bulat Okudzhava, David Gift, Fazil Iskander, Alexander Kushner, Dmitry Prigov and others.

Section "Autographs, letters, manuscripts" opens the famous photograph of Mikhail Bulgakov's the monocle, made shortly before the premiere of days of the Turbins (1926) with a dedicatory inscription of the writer, addressed to the second wife Lyubov Belozerskaya.

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In the late 1920-х years in the life of Ivan Bunin appeared Galina Kuznetsova — recent love of the Creator "Dark alleys". Bunin settled her at his Villa "Belvedere" in Grasse and was presented to the wife as a student. Idyllic relations in a love triangle lasted a few years. At that time a frequent visitor at the Villa were a young writer Nikolai Roshchin, who addressed two Epistles Bunin. One of the letters signed by all participants of the triangle—Верой Muromtsevo, Galina Kuznetsova, and by Bunin.

Autograph quatrain from the poem "the Orgy" (1949) owned by another Nobel laureate, Boris Pasternak.

of the items in the archive mathematician, astronomer, and the first Soviet ufologist Felix Siegel associated with the figure of David Samoilov. Their friendship lasted more than half a century, starting from school. Preserved handwritten letters Samoylova, stylized ancient petitions, manuscripts of his unpublished poems and pictures.

10 lots "From the archive of Venedikt Erofeev" — diaries, notebooks, "talking notebooks" and writing "Broom" to his second wife Galina Bow — cover a long period from the early 1970-х to the last years of the writer's life.

Moscow's unofficial literature noted samizdat collections of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky and Eduard Limonov, books with autographs of Henry Sapgir and rare photos with members of the Lianozovo group.

Among samizdat periodicals — one of the most fascinating phenomena of the "second" culture — not only instances of "Clock", "37" (the last number), but a few samples: "Red Detinets", "Preposition", "the Third modernization" (Riga).

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Unofficial art claimed by the leading artists of the Bronze age. It is particularly noteworthy sketch of Oscar Rabin (1964) "Silver ruble" (1966), the female characters of Eugene Kropiwnicki, four works of the past in the beginning of this year Vladimir Yankilevsky, the paintings of Vladimir Yakovlev and Igor Voroshilov, more badges of Henry Khudyakov, Anatoly slepysheva graphics and Vladimir Titov, paintings of the "Yellow worm" Vladimir Kotlyarov Tolstoy and "the Plane" Constantine Batynkov, a silkscreen Mikhail Grobman and Mosquito & Melamid. The St. Petersburg school represented watercolour Solomon Rossin, book graphics Florenskii Olga and Vasily Golubev, as well as his painting.

In the section "Leningradthe underground" the main attention is focused on two currents, to develop the poetics of Russian avant-garde, — heliotech (Vladimir Erl and Alexei Khvostenko) and transformista (Sergey Sigey, Rea Nikonova, Boris Konstriktor, Nicholas Axelrod and divided their searches oberiut Igor Bakhterev). One of the major figures of the Leningrad rock — Boris Grebenshikov — presents a collection of songs "Aquarium" with its dedicatory inscription and pictures the official photographer of the group Victor nemtinova. Finally, crowning the catalogue publications another cult figure — Konstantin Kuzminsky: the first (rare) volume of "Anthology of poetry from Blue lagoon," collections of poetry with his autographs and last lifetime book "Roman-газета".

the pre-Auction exhibition is open until February 16 from 12:00 to 20:00 halls of the auction house "Antiquarium" at the address: Moscow, street Garden-Кудринская, 25, 3-й floor "of the Antique centre on the Garden", office 302.

Phone: 7 (495) 374-5090; e-mail info@anticvarium.ru.

Applications for absentee participation and bidding by phone will be accepted until 16 February.

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