Rare Pushkin, Tsvetaeva items to go to auction

A lifetime edition of Pushkin's 'Poltava' and a letter by Akhmatova will be put up for auction.

Consensus

The auction is scheduled for September 10.
The auction house is 'Litfond'.
There are 500 lots in total.
The total estimated value of the lots exceeds 30 million rubles.
The only posthumous edition of Alexander Pushkin's 'Poltava' is included.
A letter from Marina Tsvetaeva and Sergei Efron is included.
The letter was sent during their honeymoon trip to Palermo in 1912.
The letter is from the collection of literary scholar Lev Mnukhin.
The starting price of the Tsvetaeva-Efron letter is 1.25 million rubles.
An autograph by Tsvetaeva from the 1930s is included.
The starting price of the Pushkin 'Poltava' edition is 1.05 million rubles.
A 1982 edition of Sergei Dovlatov's 'Zone. Notes of a Guard' is included, with a handwritten drawing by Dovlatov on the title page and a bookplate inside.

The Dovlatov edition is described as unique due to the owner's name (ex-libris) and a hand-drawn sketch by Dovlatov on the title page. — kommersant
The Tsvetaeva-Efron letter was addressed to the writer's older sister Anna Yakovlevna and her husband. — vm
The most expensive lot is a complete set of 'The Art of Naval Fleets...' by French Jesuit Paul Gost, translated by Ivan Golenishchev-Kutuzov, published in St. Petersburg in 1764, with a starting price of 1.8 million rubles. — kommersant
The most expensive lot is described as a rare naval publication from 1764 with a starting price of 1.8 million roubles. — vm
A Tyrannosaurus skeleton named Gus was sold at Sotheby's in New York in mid-July for $50.13 million, setting a record for paleontological lots. — vm