RUSSIAN ART & HISTORY
By Hermitage Fine Art
Nov 21, 2019
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LOT 927:

PYLIAEV MIKHAIL IVANOVICH (1842-1899) Old life: Essays and stories about rites, customs and orders in organization ...


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PYLIAEV MIKHAIL IVANOVICH (1842-1899) Old life: Essays and stories about rites, customs and orders in organization of home and social life.
SPb.: A.S. Suvorin printing house, 1892. - [4], 318, [2] с.; 23х16 sm.
In an elegant compound cover of mid-twentieth century. Covers are pasted with fl ora style painted
silk, fl yleaves of gilded paper with fl ower ornament.
Lifetime edition of the writer and journalist Mikhail Ivanovich Pyliaev (1842-1899) comprises entertaining
stories and anecdotes of the Petersburg’s life in XVIII- early XIX centuries.
From the table of contents: How they ate in the old days; Gambling in the old days; Fashions and
fashionistas of the old time; Old time aged people, hypocrites and freaks.
Sm.-Sok. №3909; Fecula. №2823