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However, and at the auction " Old and rare books, maps , engravings » № 18 ( 62) - 25 September 2013. ( commencement of trading at 17.30 ) - will once again be represented by many rarities. Among the more than 500 lots are such rarities as the first posthumous edition of Pushkin's "Contemporary" 1837 the year with the first publication of the work of AS Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman " and " Negro of Peter the Great" and a poem by M. Lermontov "Borodino » ( lot is estimated at 480 - 650 thousand rubles.) .


One of the most explicit love letters of Emperor Alexander II to his beloved Princess Catherine Dolgoruky from 1 October 1868 . Estimate 240,000 - 300,000 p .

Bilateral autograph letter K. Tsiolkovsky , dated 1891 year. The letter is addressed to the great Russian physicist , teacher and friend
Tsiolkovsky , Alexander Grigoryevich Stoletov . estimate 110-150 thousand rubles .

" Podnosnogo " edition of "The History of the Apsheron regiment 1700-1892 " in 3 volumes from the collection of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich ( Younger ). Estimate unique publication on military history is 3.3 - 4 million rubles.

Filokartistov and collectors of historical interest to a large-scale collection of species photographs and postcards (there are about 1200) , relating to the Caucasus : Common types , Church of Armenia and Georgia , maps and sketches of military publications , the views of Sochi , Baku and Tiflis. Lot, which includes the largest selection - two albums collection of postcards on the Caucasus (1890-1915) includes 711 cards - is estimated up to 1 million rubles.

The whole unit auction catalog is traditionally devoted to books futurism and Russian avant-garde. This section highlights items with droppings compilers : " It's rare ! ". This fully lithographed edition of Russian avant-garde - Kazimir Malevich "On New Systems in Art " (Vitebsk, 1919) - the book , filled with 1,000 copies apprentices Vitebsk School under the direction of El Lissitzky . estimate 260-300 thousand rubles .

And the absolute top lot of the auction , " Old and rare books " "-" Place of Herodias " Alexei Remizov , released in Berlin, published by « Trirema » in 1922 . Font and drawings by the artist Nicholas Istselennova . Especially valuable book makes the fact that out of 500 copies only 50 was painted by hand. It is not surprising that the proposed lot - painted , with the number IV, and even signed N.Istselennova (!) is estimated very high: from 1.2 million to 1.5 million .

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At the auction will also feature one of the first avant-garde works by Natalia Goncharova lithographs - is six lithographs Churilina for poetry (1912 ) and a rare lifetime edition , as well as the first edition of Vladimir Mayakovsky's " Whatever page , the elephant , the lion " with K. Zdanevich drawings . ( 1928g. )

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Literature of the Soviet period, " lit " is also widely. From autographs and B.Ahmadullinoy A.Voznesenskogo and first editions of the novels of A. Solzhenitsyn " Cancer Ward " (1968 ) and " The First Circle " ( 1969) . Prior to the legendary " Gagarin " April issue of " Spark " in 1961 with two publishers covers. It is worth noting the album " Workers ' and Peasants' Red Army" (1934 artist El Lissitzky ) . In this rare edition of the parade of the Soviet era with lots of pictures were carved portraits of "enemies of the people." The organizers of the auction and found the originals are placed in the directory untouched photographs.