RUSSIAN ART & HISTORY
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Nov 21, 2019
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LOT 957:

V. V. VERESAEV (1867-1945) A letter addressed to the publishing partnership ‘Nedra’.

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V. V. VERESAEV (1867-1945) A letter addressed to the publishing partnership ‘Nedra’.
Moscow, April 15, 1927 1 p.;
22x17, 5 cm. Typescript. With the subtitle ‘Cooperative publishing Partnership ‘Life’. Handwritten
signature of V. V. Veresaev. Stamped book plate of M. I. Chuvanov on the back.
He suggests to retain hundred rubles and 5% from each of a number of authors to create share
capital. Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev (real name Smidovich; 1867-1945) - Russian novelist,
literary critic, poet-translator. Laureate of the latest Pushkin prize (1919) and Stalin prize of the
first degree (1943).
Provenance: Mikhail Ivanovich Chuvanov (1894-1988) - bibliophile, collector. He passed a way
from a typographical worker to the head of a printing house, was an expert in bibliography and
paleography. He became famous among the collectors due to his wonderful collection of manuscripts
and books, as well as all sorts of printed publications published in Russia in the revolutionary and
first post-revolutionary years.