Video: The first printed poem by Lermontov will be put up for auction
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The first printed poem by Mikhail Lermontov "Spring" will be put up for auction. The auction will take place on April 23 and will be held at the Central House of Artists. The organizer of the auction is the auction house "Cabinet", and the sale of the poem will take place within the auction "Old and rare books, maps, prints". This was announced by the organizers of the event on the website of the auction house.
The first printed poem by Mikhail Lermontov was published in an almanac called "Antey" in 1830. The poem "Spring" was written with the monogram L. The organizers of the auction expect to raise at least 580 thousand rubles. Experts set the upper bar at 700 thousand rubles. The copy of the magazine in which the poem was published is printed on the publisher's paperback.
Lermontov dedicated his poem "Spring" to his first love - Ekaterina Sushkova. In total, 11 poems of the poet were dedicated to Sushkova. According to the memoirs, the young lady asked the poet to compose a poem for her that would be realistic.
In addition, the lifetime edition of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, published in 1833, will be put up for auction for 1.5-2.5 million rubles.
Recommended:
How to feel like a cowboy: an exact replica of a 19th century American city was put up for auction
Any fan of westerns now has the opportunity to become the sheriff of an American city in the 19th century - and not virtually, but in reality. However, for this you need to pay about 1.7 million dollars (1.2 million pounds). It is for this price that the city in the Wild West was put up for sale through Sotheby's. More precisely, a copy of it. Everything here is like in a real old American town: a hotel, a church, a prison, a dance and billiard rooms, a photo studio and, of course, a hairdresser
Illustrations from the most expensive printed book ever sold at auction: The Birds of America Album
The first edition of this masterpiece of book art was printed in Edinburgh and London from 1827 to 1838. The amazingly accurate life-size illustrations of birds by the American naturalist J.J. Audubon are hand-painted prints. In 2010, at Sotheby's, a copy of Birds of America from Lord Hesketh's collection was sold for $ 11.5 million. Several editions of this rarity are kept in the largest libraries in Russia
The first Bible in Russian by the printer Fedorov was put up for auction in St. Petersburg
On the first day of summer, that is, on the first of June, an auction will take place in St. Petersburg. This will be the twelfth auction titled Rare Books. Graphics. Vinyl ", which is held by the Auction House of the Russian Federation. A large number of lots will be put up for sale at this auction, and the Ostrog Bible is among the most valuable of them. Its peculiarity is that it is the first Bible translated into Russian, published in 1581 by the first printer Ivan Fedorov. This news has been published
No gloss: Informal photographs of the British royal family put up for auction
An interesting archive of photographs of the royal family is up for auction in the UK. It includes pictures that were taken over four decades - in the 1950s - 1980s. You can see a photo of 20-year-old bearded Prince Charles, who is strikingly similar to his son Harry today, unofficial photos of Princess Anne, Princess Margaret, Prince Philip and Elizabeth II herself
How did the first coins appear, what came before them, and who printed the first bills
Money is a fairly ancient means of calculating. But market relations emerged much earlier. For centuries, ancient people made purchases, exchanged goods without the use of coins, banknotes and IOUs. How it was possible to conduct trading operations, and what led to the emergence of modern money - in our material