Rare Gogol Edition to Auction for 3.5M Rubles

An auction house in Saint Petersburg is selling a rare second edition of Nikolai Gogol's 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka' from 1836, with a starting bid of 3.5 million rubles. The book was previously owned by scholar Alexander Borozdin and sold in the 1920s in Petrograd.

Consensus

• The auction house 'Litfond' is selling a second contemporary edition of Nikolai Gogol's 'Vechera na khutorе bliz Dikanki' from 1836.
• The starting bid for the book is 3.5 million rubles.
• The book was part of the collection of literary scholar Alexander Borozdin.
• The book was sold in the 1920s at the Petrograd store 'Antikvariat'.
• The auction will feature rare books, historical documents, and other antiquities.
• The auction is taking place in Saint Petersburg.

Points of divergence

• The book is described as a bibliographic rarity by the press service of 'Litfond'. — gazeta_spb
• An illustrated edition about the 'Magic of the White Rose' festival held in Potsdam on July 13, 1829, is also being auctioned, with a starting price of 750,000 rubles. — gazeta_spb
• The auction will take place on Thursday. — gazeta_spb
• The auction is scheduled for August 13. — kommersant
• In April, 'Litfond' conducted a previous auction where the Ostrozhskaya Bible by Ivan Fedorov sold for 4.8 million rubles. — kommersant

Coverage (2 sources)

• Gogol's lifetime edition to be auctioned for 3.5 million rubles - SPb Gazeta - St. Petersburg news — Gazeta.SPb
• The publication "Evenings at the Hutir near Dikanka" was put up for auction for 3.5 million rubles — Коммерсантъ

Key entities

• Dikanki
• Nikolaya Gogolia
• Aleksandr Borozdin
• Saint Petersburg
• Litfund
• Auction House
• SPB RU Newspaper - St. Petersburg News, Auction House 'Litfond'

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