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Lot 157. NARBUT, Georgii Ivanovich (1886 - 1920) (illustrator). Gerboved [Heraldry]. St. Petersburg: [S. N. Troinitskii], January-December 1913. 12 issues. 214 pp. Folio (255 x 185 mm). Edited by Sergei Nikolaevich Troinitskii. Headpieces by G. I. Narbut. Original decorated blue wrappers designed by G. I. Narbut. Condition: occasional soiling, creasing to covers; a few gluestains from bookplates. Provenance: last two issues with the bookplate of Petr Ivanovich Neradovskii, designed by Dmitrii Dmitrievich Bushen in 1921. complete run of twelve issues of this rare heraldic periodical in the original wrappers for 1913. The great Ukrainian artist Narbut provided not only the standard wrappers (that also served as the title page) but also an ornate headpiece in the Napoleonic style in each issue. P. I. Neradovskii (1875-1962) was an artist and art historian; D. D. Bushen (1893-1984) was a member of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group and assistant keeper of the art gallery in the Hermitage Museum.(12) $2000 – $3000 Lot 158. TERESCHENKO, Mikhail Ivanovich (1886-1956) (publisher). Sirin. St. Petersburg: [“Sirin”], 1913-1914. 3 volumes. 8vo (230 x 165 mm). Original decorated gray wrappers. Condition: wrappers slightly discolored and spotted, library stamps to rear wrappers on two volumes, slight chipping to backstrip extremities. complete run of this poetry annual. With contributuons by Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Valerii Briusov, Zimaida Gippius, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub and others. These volumes contain the first publication of Bely’s masterpiece Petersburg after Petr Berngardovich Struve rejected it for his journal Russkaya mysl [Russian Thought]. It appeared in book form in 1916. Bely revised the text and published this version in Berlin in 1922. Vladimir Nabokov thought Petersburg was one of the “greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose,” next only to Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” (1915) and better than Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927).(3) $3000 – $5000 Lot 157 Lot 158 Lot 159. CHULKOV, Georgii Ivanovich (1879-1939) (editor). Fakely [Torches]. St. Petersburg: D. K. Tikhomirov, 1906-1908. 3 volumes Various sizes. Volume 1 in the original purple wrappers designed by Evgenii Lancere; the other two rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with the original yellow or purple wrappers. Designed by Evgenii Lancere and V. Ya. Chembrs bound in. Condition: wrappers worn with splits and chipping to backstrip; rubbing to boards, corners slightly bumped. complete run of this rare symbolist annual. With contributions by Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Ivan Bunin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub, Boris Zaitsev and others. With graphics by Ivan Bibibin, V. Ya. Chembrs, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (uncredited), E. E. Lansere and Boris Zamirailo. Chulkov called for Russian writers to discard Symbolism and Decadence for what he called “Mystical Anarchism.” Drawing largely on Friederich Nietzsche’s ideas, this new philosophy tried to reconcile individual freedom and social harmony. While Aleksandr Blok and Vyacheslav Ivanov supported the new doctrine, Valerii Briusov and Andrei Belyi challenged it.(3) $3000 – $5000 102 Russian Literature & Art Russian Literature & Art 103 Lot 159
Lot 160. KRIMOV, Vladimir Pimenovich (editor). Stolitsa i usadba [The Capital and Mansion]. Petrograd: December 15, 1913- September 30, 1917. 90 numbers (including some multiple issues) in 4 volumes, folio (345 x 260 mm). Printed by R. Golike and A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Numerous illustrations. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: some toning to text; occasional splits to backstrips, and toning to covers. complete run of this rare “journal of the beautiful life”. Limited to 1500 copies. This elegant bi-weekly surveyed the art, architecture, interiors and divertissements of Russia’s extravagant upper classes on the eve of the Revolution. It was modelled on the London journal Country Life; headings by the English artist Arthur Rackham from this magazine as well as cartoons by W. Heath Robinson, Harry Rountree and James Montgomery Flagg appear in Stolitsa i usadba. The ladies and gentleman in this Russian journal seem completely oblivious to the World War and the approaching apocalypse. Number 55 (April 1, 1916) dealt with the Tsar and his family so the Bolsheviks confiscated it. Nauchnaya i spravochnaya literatura-iskysstvo (1977) states on p. 55 that this issue was “withdrawn.”(4) $50000 – $70000 104 Russian Literature & Art Russian Literature & Art 105
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