Don't like it... Unique and rare items in "the Russian enamel" November 15,
ARTinvestment.RU   07 ноября 2018

15 November, the auction house "Russian enamel" will present a collection, which includes around 400 lots of rare books, unique autographs and manuscripts, historical papers, posters, and postcards, totaling about 30 000 000 rubles

Online-каталог auction.

Among the unique lots of the Museum level, the second edition of A. S. Griboedov "Woe from wit" (1839) with extensive autograph-экспромтом poet A. N. Maikov. This opens a unique instance of the inscription of the poet left on flyleaf: "Margaret bieşu was Agacinski in memory". On the first blank sheet poem:

"In parting, while parting, / the gift You are bringing
To heaven lift up your hands / And pray, pray, asking.
let the gods forever relieve You from meetings like me..."

Impromptu left on the book 16 Aug 1842; this year is especially important for the work of A. N. Maikov, since 1842, was published in St. Petersburg his first book "Poems Apollon Maikov".

Excels in the collection of the auction a number of books in a luxurious decoration of the Imperial and Grand-Ducal library. So, "free Trip to Svaneti Colonel Bartholomew in 1853," published in Tiflis and two years later, dressed in a gorgeous tselnokozhany cover dark-зеленого color and comes from the collection of Chairman of State Council Grand Prince Mikhail Nikolayevich. From the personal library of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna going on a convolute of publications related to the Imperial С.-Петербургским Botanical garden (1898). From the library of Emperor Nicholas II the copy of the book "the Life and poetry of V. A. Zhukovsky" K. K. Sedlica. And the crowning glory of the "Royal" part of the auction will be printed specially for the visit to Yaroslavl Nicholas II scroll "Industry of the Yaroslavl province and its past" (1913). This is a rare small-circulation publication of the tray is missing in the collections of the Russian State and Russian National libraries.

Among the unique autographs stands out inskript of Sergei Yesenin own book "Keys of Mary" (1920) addressed to the mistress of the poet poetess Ekaterina Romanovna ages, who worked in the library of the NKVD, as well as the student's notebook, filled with his own student Yuri Gagarin during his training at the Saratov industrial technical school in 1954.

With all the lots can be found until November 15, 2018 (except Sunday and Monday) at the pre-auction exhibition at the office of the Auction house "Russian enamel" at the address: Moscow, Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p.2.

the Auction will be held on November 15. Start of trading in 19:00.

Phone: 7-495-792-48-92; 7-985-969-77-45; e-mail: [email protected].

Source: press-релиз the Auction house "Russian enamel"