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.
Points of divergence
- 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
Coverage (2 sources)
- A lifetime edition of Pushkin's "Poltava" and a letter from Tsvetaeva will be put up for auction — Коммерсантъ
- The only lifetime edition of Pushkin's poem 'Poltava' will be put up for auction — Вечерняя Москва
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