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Unique editions of Russian classics put up for auction in London

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Unique editions of Russian classics put up for auction in London


06.07.2019

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The auction entitled The Golden Age of Russian Literature will be held in London on July 9, TASS reports. It is organized by the famous auction house Christie's. More than one hundred twenty unique editions from the collection of a private European collector will be put on sale, including rarities from Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol and Lermontov.

One of the most expensive lots will be the first edition of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. It was published in St. Petersburg almost two hundred years ago, in 1825, in the printing house of the Department of Public Education. Its estimated cost exceeds two hundred thousand dollars.

Another top lot will be a rare edition of Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. The book was at one time in the library of the Vorontsov princes, which is proved by the corresponding monogram. The estimated price reaches one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.

The first lifetime edition of Krylov's fables and the rare first edition of Ruslan and Lyudmila poem were put up for auction as well. Experts estimate them at one hundred thousand dollars. The first and only lifetime edition of Lermontov's poems, published in 1840, was estimated at more than sixty thousand dollars.

Christie's collectors are also offered Word of Igor's Regiment, released at the beginning of the nineteenth century, for fifty thousand dollars and a collection of poems by Nekrasov Dreams and Sounds.

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