In the directory — rare archival images of the last Royal family and the Russian army, autographs and pictures of S. Rachmaninoff, F. Shaliapin, M. Kshesinskaya, A. Pavlova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, V. Nabokov, I. Brodskiy, S. Dovlatov, unique copies of samizdat and tamizdat

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the Dominant feature of the first part of the catalogue are items from the collection of collector and connoisseur of the Imperial army Yakov Ivanovich Davidovich (1899-1964) — rare photos of Nicholas II and members of Royal family, dignitaries and high society, images of the Imperial army parades and maneuvers during the First world war. The latest in chronological order the — photo of Nicholas II after the abdication of the throne, who is under arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, — dated in the summer of 1917.

the Next thematic section is associated with the Golden pages of the Russian ballet. In the directory — pre-revolutionary photo of Matilda Kshesinskaya and her late, Paris photos, a booklet of the performances of Anna Pavlova and her rare the 1925 photographs of the dancers of "Russian seasons" — Leonid myasina, David Lishin, Tamara Grigorieva, Tamara Tumanova — and stars of the Soviet ballet (part of — signed) Galina Ulanova, Tatiana Vecheslova, Natalia Dudinskaya, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Natalia Makarova, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, Rudolf Nureyev. Undoubted top-лот collection — ballet shoes Mikhail Baryshnikov, in which outstanding dancer spoke in the Union, with its inscription "to Mend shoes can — soul and don't try" (1972).

Deserve special attention of lots associated with the prominent figures of Russian culture, — photo and letter from Sergei Rachmaninoff autographs of Maria Andreeva and Sergey Koussevitzky, original prints of portraits of Vladimir Nabokov.

The figure of one of the largest poets of the XX century, Joseph Brodsky and his inner circle appears in the archive Ludmila Shtern — close friend of the Nobel laureate and author of several books about him, Sergei Dovlatov and others Among them a single instance of samizdat magazine "Pasik" (1961-1962), dedicated to the cat Starnov with poetry "Akhmatova's orphans", autographs and manuscripts, Dmitry Bobyshev, Eugene Rhine, and Anatoly Naiman, the closest friends, made by Joseph Brodsky on his birthday (1962), his letter to Lyudmila Shtern (1975) and the several collections with poetic inscriptions. The largest writer of the second half of the XX century Sergei Dovlatov submitted by inscripti on their books and a dedication to "Life Toulouse-Лотрека" Henri Perruso. The collection includes the autographs of eminent persons of the three "waves" of Russian emigration: Nina Berberova, Elena Nabokova-Сикорской, Sergey gollerbakh, Viktor Nekrasov, Vladimir Maximov, George Vladimova etc.

From the library of Starnow is collection of books called the USSR "samizdata". These publications are for censorship reasons, could not see the light of day in the land of the Soviets, went to the West and then illegally crossed the iron curtain. Collections of the classics of the early XX century, Marina Tsvetaeva and Mikhail Zoshchenko, lifetime editions of writers and poets of the mid-второй half of the twentieth century, on whose shoulders fell shanicka share, — Yefim Etkind, Alexander Galich, Eduard Limonov, Vasily Aksenov, Irina Ratushinskaya, vahrich of Bahchanyana.

the Final "painting" section for interesting portraits (Kuzma Petrov-Водкин daughter) and sequential imagery (Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Yalta) the first half of the twentieth century, the author's photographs of Greg Gorman, Nina Alovert, Ilia Koltun.

the Auction will be held on 22 September at 17:00 (GMT) to: Germany, Hamburg, St. Valentinskamp, 62.

Source: press-релиз auction house Artmaximum