A rare edition of Nikolai Gogol’s story “Nevsky Prospekt” went under the hammer at auction for 850 thousand rubles. This was reported by TASS referring to the Litfond auction house.
A copy of Nevsky Prospect offered for sale was published in St. Petersburg in 1905 by the Circle of Lovers of Russian Fine Publications. It was printed in St. Petersburg. Bound entirely in leather, with a gold heading and a moiré endpaper, the book includes illustrations by Dmitry Kardovsky and a handwritten dedication inscription dated 1944, addressed to Gidalia Rakhlin. Rakhlin was the manager of the Writers’ Union store on Nevsky Prospekt, and then the manager of a poetry store next to the Mariinsky Theatre. The starting price of the lot was 170 thousand rubles.
The second lot – a rare children’s book by Vladimir Mayakovsky “Each page is either an elephant or a lioness” (1928) in excellent condition with illustrations by Kirill Zdanevich – was sold for 500 thousand dollars. Also, the first complete collection of works by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov was sold at auction for 360 thousand rubles.
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