Inscripti Benedict Livshits and Olga Bergholz — in the "literary Fund"
ARTinvestment.RU   19 марта 2019

On 21 March the auction house of "KABINET" will hold an auction of rare books, manuscripts, autographs, historical papers, geographical maps, postcards, posters and photographs, which will present nearly 400 lots

Online-каталог auction.

Among the rare autographs especially interested in two inskript XX century — letter of 1937 and the manuscript of the poem in 1948.

for the First time at auction a letter to a famous poet-футуриста Benedict Livshits, written a year before the execution of Leningrad "literary work." The letter is addressed to the poet, editor, Nicolo Mitsishvili, who held important posts in the Writers ' Union of Georgia, also repressed in 1937. The letter is four pages written on 1 June 1937 from Leningrad, where after a few days Livshits has gone to Kislovodsk. Already four months later, on 25 October 1937, Livshits was arrested and charged under articles 58-8 and 58-11 "for participating in anti-Soviet right-троцкистской terrorist and subversive-вредительской organization." September 21, 1938, he was executed along with writers and poets Yury Yurkun, by S. Agaevym, V. Stedicam and W. Sorgenfrei. After the sentencing, relatives of the accused announced their expulsion on "ten years of imprisonment in distant camps without the right of correspondence"...

the Autograph of Benedict Livshits, left in the book, was sold at auction "Russian enamel" for 1 500 000 rubles. Estimate this unique letter will be 500 000-550 000.

Another equally interesting lot is a rough version of the famous work of Olga Bergholz, "I don't like phone calls..." with a dedicatory inscription addressed to the chief editor of "Literary Russia" Konstantin Ivanovich Pozdnyaeva. Starting price of the lot 10 000. However, the organizers of the auction say that one of the autographs of Olga Bergholz — handwritten text of the speech on the radio in the siege of Leningrad — have been sold at auction "KABINET" with a starting price of 40,000 rubles for 950 000 rubles.

pre-Auction exhibition is open until March 21 in the office of the auction house "Russian enamel" at: Moscow, Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2.

the Auction will be held on March 21. 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"